Board

Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO

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I am returning to OpenAI as CEO. Mira will return to her role as CTO. The new initial board will consist of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo. I have never been more excited about the future. I am extremely grateful for everyone’s hard work in an unclear and unprecedented situation, and I … Read more

Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don’t Want to Join OpenAI’s All-Male Board

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“It’s repulsive to me,” says Gebru. “I honestly think there’s more of a chance that I would go back to Google—I mean, they won’t have me and I won’t have them—than me going to OpenAI.” The lack of women in the AI field has been an issue for years; in 2018, WIRED estimated that only … Read more

John Travolta Says His Near-Death Experience While Flying Plane With Family On Board Inspired ‘The Shepherd’

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The year was 1992, and John Travolta was flying a corporate jet with his family on board when he experienced “a total electrical failure” during the flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Rockland, Maine on Thanksgiving Day. “I knew what it felt like to absolutely think you’re going to die,” the 69-year-old actor recalled (via Variety) at … Read more

Sam Altman’s back. Here’s who’s on the new OpenAI board and who’s out

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Sam Altman (L), US entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and founder and CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, and the company’s co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, speak together at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. Jack Guez | Afp | Getty Images After a weekend of crisis and tumult, Sam Altman has … Read more

Founders: Pay attention to what happened with OpenAI’s board

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This weekend, a soft, rumbling feeling reached a loud consensus: Why the heck was OpenAI structured that way? In very dumb words, its nonprofit arm had complete control over the for-profit holding company, giving it the ability to oust Sam Altman as CEO without even a day’s head-ups to the well-known Silicon Valley executive or … Read more

Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to follow Altman to Microsoft unless board resigns

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Hundreds of OpenAI employees, including co-founder and board member Ilya Sutskever, have signed a letter demanding that either OpenAI’s remaining board members resign or those OpenAI employees will join Sam Altman’s new venture at Microsoft, according to NBCNews. “Your actions have made it obvious that you are incapable of overseeing OpenAI,” the letter says. About … Read more

Microsoft emerges as big winner from OpenAI turmoil with Altman on board

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By Aditya Soni (Reuters) – Microsoft emerged on Monday as the big winner of the upheaval at OpenAI, hiring ousted CEO Sam Altman and other key staff of the startup to avert a potential flight to rivals and help deepen its lead in the artificial intelligence race. The turmoil at OpenAI since Friday had raised … Read more