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On October 31, 2026, Samsung hosted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at its Samsung Human Resources Development Center in Yongin for a closed-door meeting with about 50 executives from key affiliates (electronics, finance, biotech) under the theme "The Next 10 Years AI Will Change, Corporate Choices." Yonhap and Korea Times report the session focused on AI transformation and future innovation, with Samsung and OpenAI discussing close cooperation in memory and data centers. Altman also gave each executive a 300,000-won Codex keyboard, OpenAI's first hardware product released in July, designed for its coding agent Codex. Korean media highlight the gift as a symbol of AI-driven computing, with Dong-A Ilbo noting Altman's message that in an AI world, voice commands and a 13-key keyboard suffice. The visit was a surprise one-night trip, with Maeil Business noting it came amid cooling AI investment and ahead of Anthropic's IPO.