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Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)

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Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its blog post.

EDITED TO ADD direct link to OpenAI board announcement:
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

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[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

OpenAI also announced that co-founder Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board, though he will remain at the company.

Interesting. No way this isn't connected

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Given the language (Altman lied to them) and the chairman stepping down (but remaining in the C-suite) I'm starting to think that maybe Altman was trying to take something in an unapproved direction and present it as a fait accompli but got found out before he was ready to reveal it.

I added the direct link to the board's announcement to the post text so people can see it for themselves -- interesting how the board separated Altman's removal from Brockman's demotion by five paragraphs, adding Brockman's changed position just before the end almost as an afterthought. Which of course it isn't, lol.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

He just resigned like 30m ago.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uhh.. Keep reading?

Hours after it was published, Brockman posted to X that he had quit “based on today’s news.”

Apologies, looks like that statement may have been added after the fact.

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