One major red flag was a secretive OpenAI Startup Fund, personally owned by Altman, which board members had not been informed ...

An excerpt from the upcoming book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future” offers new details about why OpenAI’s board briefly fired CEO Sam Altman back in 2023.

Seated beside him was Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI—the company that had recently taken the tech world by storm with its launch of ChatGPT. Yet beneath this festive exterior lay concerns that would ...

A chilled investment climate, blowback from other countries’ retaliatory moves and collateral damage from relying on ...

An exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal details how Microsoft unveiled OpenAI's unreleased GPT-4 to the world without ...

But as the two investing partners celebrated beneath the exposed rafters of L.A.’s hottest new restaurant, four members of OpenAI’s six-person board, including two with direct ties to the EA ...

Microsoft secretly tested OpenAI's unreleased GPT-4 model in India without safety approvals, sparking board concerns about ...

Then there’s what happened at OpenAI. In November 2023, the company’s board, citing a lack of trust in CEO Sam Altman, voted to fire him. Board member Helen Toner (who associates with the EA ...

As per the report, this information never reached OpenAI’s board. One of the independent board members was told the information by an employee after a six-hour board meeting, during which Altman ...

By becoming a member, I agree to receive information and promotional ... “No thank you but we will buy twitter for [US]$9.74 billion if you want,” Altman said. Now, OpenAI’s board has formally ...

The start-up’s valuation, which has nearly doubled in six months, shows continued enthusiasm for A.I. among investors.