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If you were looking for information about Sam Altman’s abrupt departure from OpenAI this weekend, you likely found yourself, like me, constantly refreshing your news feed on X.
While advertisers like Apple and Disney were fleeing the platform, starting Friday, over concerns that their ads were being shown next to pro-Nazi content, business news junkies were flocking to X to watch the drama at OpenAI unfold in real time. When it comes to breaking news, users can’t seem
It’s going to be some time before the dust settles from the implosion of OpenAI’s management suite, but (for the moment at least), Microsoft appears to be the clear winner from the AI imbroglio.
As of Monday morning (and given the rapidly shifting landscape in this story, it’s important to mark that time), former CEO Sam Altman and former OpenAI president Greg Brockman have joined the tech giant to lead a new advanced AI research team. At the same time, Microsof
The speculation began almost immediately after Friday’s sudden dismissal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The OpenAI board gave little reason for firing Altman, other than to say he had been less than honest with board members. But honest about what, exactly?
One popular theory on X posits that there’s an unseen factor hanging in the background, animating the players in this ongoing drama: the possibility that OpenAI researchers have progressed further than anyone knew t
One of the most tumultuous four-day spans in Silicon Valley history has finally concluded (for now at least), and in the end we’re left with massive changes at both OpenAI and Microsoft—and massive ramifications for the wider world of artificial intelligence.
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO summarily fired on Friday by the company’s nonprofit board for vague reasons (they blamed his “not consistently candid” communications), didn’t return to his
The dust has finally started to settle after the chaotic weekend at OpenAI. On Friday, the ChatGPT maker fired CEO Sam Altman. A day later attempts led by investors to get Altman rehired failed. And by this morning, in a stunning turn of events, Altman was hired by OpenAI’s biggest investor, Microsoft, to lead a new AI research division.
Amid all this drama, there was another major development at OpenAI: the appointment of new interim CEO Emmett Shear.
Shear was bor
It’s been a whirlwind weekend at OpenAI after the company’s board of directors fired founder Sam Altman on November 17. Now, after apparent failed attempts on Sunday to get Altman rehired and instead, OpenAI’s board hired a new CEO, Emmett Shear, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced that both Sam Altman and former OpenAI president Greg Brockman have been hired to lead Microsoft’s new advanced AI research team.
No one on Friday could have guessed that
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Update: Shortly after this story was published, it was reported that the OpenAI board had hired former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, deciding not to reinstate Sam Altman.
If the unexpected firing of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI on November 17 was—as has been reported—a battle highlighting the schism within the broader AI field between those pursuing aggressive development of the technology and the more cautious, existential threat-fearing doom-mongers, then his potential ret