Elon Musk Trolls His Way Into the OpenAI Drama
Elon Musk needed fewer than 100 characters to add new chaos to the ongoing crisis swirling around OpenAI after the shock firing of CEO Sam Altman last week. In a...
The Mystery at the Heart of the OpenAI Chaos
Yet on Monday those theories too appeared to be put to rest. In a post on X in the early hours of the morning, the board’s new interim CEO Emmett...
95 Percent of OpenAI Employees Threaten to Follow Sam Altman Out the Door
Almost the entire staff of OpenAI has now signed a letter threatening to leave and join a new venture led by ousted CEO, Sam Altman. Some 738 out of its...
Meet Emmett Shear, OpenAI’s ‘Highly Intelligent, Socially Awkward’ Interim CEO
“I’m skeptical. If Twitch serves as a precursor of what’s to come in AI, we can expect a lot of opaque policies and missed opportunities,” argues Joost van Dreunen, a...
OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns
Microsoft has been approached for comment. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. The letter reads: To the Board of Directors at OpenAI, OpenAI is the world’s...
Sam Altman’s Attempt to Return as OpenAI CEO Fails as Board Turns to ex-Twitch CEO
Shear cofounded livestreaming platform Twitch, which sold to Amazon for nearly $1 billion in 2014. He stepped down as CEO in March, ending a 16 year run at Twitch, citing...
How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman
Beside Sutskever, the remaining directors include Adam D’Angelo, an early Facebook employee who has served since 2018 and is CEO of Q&A forum Quora, which licenses technology from OpenAI and...
What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI
Altman’s ouster shows the organization meant to align superintelligent AI with humanity failing to align the values of even its own board members and leadership. Adding a profit-seeking component to...
Sam Altman’s Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond
Earlier this month, Altman hosted OpenAI’s first developer conference and announced a plan to create an app store for AI agents built on top of its technology. Altman was also...
