Sam Altman has opinions about your Mac's memory, and AppleInsider has opinions about his. In its weekly Sunday Reboot column, the outlet takes aim at the OpenAI CEO's suggestion that it's wasteful for users to have more RAM in their Macs.

The column's counterpunch is blunt: the memory in your machine is yours, not his — and as AppleInsider puts it, "It's bad enough that you have any RAM that he can't access at all." The jab lands on a real tension in the AI era, where frontier-model companies are competing for the world's compute and memory supply while consumer hardware keeps getting more capable on-device.

There's an obvious subtext. Local RAM is what makes on-device AI viable — the more memory a Mac has, the less its owner needs to route workloads through cloud services like OpenAI's. An argument against generous local memory, coming from the biggest cloud-AI vendor, was never going to read as neutral advice.

Whatever Altman intended, the episode is a reminder that the cloud-versus-local fight is increasingly being waged in public, one offhand comment at a time.