OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, ousted four months ago from the company he co-founded, is now fully back in control. His return to its board of directors as part of a reshaped oversight team was announced on Friday.
Altman was fired in November as CEO and director by the OpenAI board, a shocking development for a man widely perceived as the leader of AI in Silicon Valley. He then briefly went to work for Microsoft, which had a $13 billion partnership with OpenAI.
Then, weeks after his axing, Altman was rehired as CEO by OpenAI. The company fired the directors responsible for Altman’s dismissal and added economist Larry Summers and Salesforce co-ceo Bret Taylor as chair. They kept Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo as the sole remaining board member from Altman’s prior era.
On Friday, OpenAI announced the appointment of four new directors: Altman, former Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellman, former Sony General Counsel Nicole Seligman,...
Altman was fired in November as CEO and director by the OpenAI board, a shocking development for a man widely perceived as the leader of AI in Silicon Valley. He then briefly went to work for Microsoft, which had a $13 billion partnership with OpenAI.
Then, weeks after his axing, Altman was rehired as CEO by OpenAI. The company fired the directors responsible for Altman’s dismissal and added economist Larry Summers and Salesforce co-ceo Bret Taylor as chair. They kept Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo as the sole remaining board member from Altman’s prior era.
On Friday, OpenAI announced the appointment of four new directors: Altman, former Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellman, former Sony General Counsel Nicole Seligman,...
- 3/9/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
After all that, Sam Altman has returned to OpenAI as the company’s CEO after being fired last Friday.
The artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT announced on X that it had an “agreement in principle” to reinstate Altman late Tuesday night, Nov. 21, on X (formerly known as Twitter). OpenAI president Greg Brockman, who quit in solidarity with Altman when he was fired last week, also confirmed he was returning to the company as well.
Altman marked the news first with a retweet containing a couple of hearts and a saluting emojis.
The artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT announced on X that it had an “agreement in principle” to reinstate Altman late Tuesday night, Nov. 21, on X (formerly known as Twitter). OpenAI president Greg Brockman, who quit in solidarity with Altman when he was fired last week, also confirmed he was returning to the company as well.
Altman marked the news first with a retweet containing a couple of hearts and a saluting emojis.
- 11/22/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In another plot twist, artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, said that co-founder Sam Altman was set to return as its CEO after days of drama following a showdown between him and the company’s board that fired him.
“We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo,” OpenAI said in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, overnight. “We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.”
Taylor is the former co-ceo of cloud-based software company Salesforce, while Summers is a former Treasury Secretary. D’Angelo, the CEO of social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market Quora, will be the only member of OpenAI’s previous board to stay in place.
The previous board and the returning...
“We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo,” OpenAI said in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, overnight. “We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.”
Taylor is the former co-ceo of cloud-based software company Salesforce, while Summers is a former Treasury Secretary. D’Angelo, the CEO of social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market Quora, will be the only member of OpenAI’s previous board to stay in place.
The previous board and the returning...
- 11/22/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sam Altman is returning to OpenAI as CEO with a new board, the tech startup said early Wednesday morning. The news comes less than a week after Altman was suddenly ousted last Friday. By Sunday evening, he had moved to Microsoft to help lead a new group researching artificial intelligence.
Earlier this week, more than 500 OpenAI employees sent a letter to the board saying they would resign and join the new Microsoft group if Altman and President, Chairman and co-founder Greg Brockman were not reinstated and a new board formed.
The new board of ChatGPT owner OpenAI will now include former Salesforce co-ceo Bret Taylor, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Quora co-founder and CEO Adam D’Angelo.
In a post on X, OpenAI wrote late Tuesday night Pacific time, “We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board…...
Earlier this week, more than 500 OpenAI employees sent a letter to the board saying they would resign and join the new Microsoft group if Altman and President, Chairman and co-founder Greg Brockman were not reinstated and a new board formed.
The new board of ChatGPT owner OpenAI will now include former Salesforce co-ceo Bret Taylor, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Quora co-founder and CEO Adam D’Angelo.
In a post on X, OpenAI wrote late Tuesday night Pacific time, “We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board…...
- 11/22/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Gas up the Learjets and break out the Moncler vests, it’s time for corporate chieftains to let their hair down, as only the one percent of the one percent knows how.
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, Warner Bros. Discovery honcho David Zaslav, Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple head Tim Cook, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are heading to Idaho in July to attend the annual “summer camp for moguls,” known more formally as Sun Valley. And Bob Iger, back on the throne at the Walt Disney Company, will also be touching down in the resort town after a brief, unhappy (for shareholders) interregnum. They’ll be mixing and mingling with other media barons, Silicon Valley heavyweights and political players at the media finance retreat hosted by Allen & Co.
Among those getting tapped to dust off their Brooks Brothers casual wear are two former treasury secretaries,...
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, Warner Bros. Discovery honcho David Zaslav, Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple head Tim Cook, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are heading to Idaho in July to attend the annual “summer camp for moguls,” known more formally as Sun Valley. And Bob Iger, back on the throne at the Walt Disney Company, will also be touching down in the resort town after a brief, unhappy (for shareholders) interregnum. They’ll be mixing and mingling with other media barons, Silicon Valley heavyweights and political players at the media finance retreat hosted by Allen & Co.
Among those getting tapped to dust off their Brooks Brothers casual wear are two former treasury secretaries,...
- 6/8/2023
- by Brent Lang and Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
After being stymied in a political run for governor as a Democrat, Nick Kristof is doubling back to the New York Times as a journalist. But his return to his columnist gig is marked by a tangled web of journalistic and financial conflicts.
New York Times journalists are strictly prohibited from participating in overt political activity and giving. But Kristof has yet to formally wind down the campaign infrastructure from his failed bid to become Oregon governor. His campaign Pac, Nick for Oregon, has recently been donating tens of thousands...
New York Times journalists are strictly prohibited from participating in overt political activity and giving. But Kristof has yet to formally wind down the campaign infrastructure from his failed bid to become Oregon governor. His campaign Pac, Nick for Oregon, has recently been donating tens of thousands...
- 8/3/2022
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
CNN’s State of the Union talk show highlighted two hot takes Sunday from former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. The most startling was his pronouncement that an economic ecession was “more likely than not” within the next two years.
Summers’s statement was in opposition to current Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s earlier comment that there is nothing to suggest a recession is in the works. But in responding to a question from State of the Union anchor Dana Bash, Summers said he disagreed.
“I think when inflation is as high as it is right now, and unemployment is as low as it is right now, it’s almost always been followed within two years by recession,” Summers said. “I look at what’s happening in the stock and bond markets. I look at where consumer sentiment is. I think there is certainly a risk of recession in the next year.
Summers’s statement was in opposition to current Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s earlier comment that there is nothing to suggest a recession is in the works. But in responding to a question from State of the Union anchor Dana Bash, Summers said he disagreed.
“I think when inflation is as high as it is right now, and unemployment is as low as it is right now, it’s almost always been followed within two years by recession,” Summers said. “I look at what’s happening in the stock and bond markets. I look at where consumer sentiment is. I think there is certainly a risk of recession in the next year.
- 6/12/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
“Wall Street Week” is on the road again.
Bloomberg’s TV and radio operations will debut a new edition of the venerable financial-discussion program, this time titled “Bloomberg Wall Street Week,” tonight, January 10, at 6 p.m. eastern. David Westin will anchor the weekly one-hour program, the result of a licensing agreement between Bloomberg and Maryland Public Television, which still holds rights to the property.
“The TV program airs at a time, at the end of the week, when people can come and hear about the two or three most interesting stories affecting business, finance and the economy, with perspective from leaders in the industry,” says Westin, in an interview. Bloomberg executives, he adds, feel that “this is something that is underserved, or unserved, right now.”
And like its predecessor, the show will have a rotating panel of influentials. Panelists regularly contributing to the program include: former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers...
Bloomberg’s TV and radio operations will debut a new edition of the venerable financial-discussion program, this time titled “Bloomberg Wall Street Week,” tonight, January 10, at 6 p.m. eastern. David Westin will anchor the weekly one-hour program, the result of a licensing agreement between Bloomberg and Maryland Public Television, which still holds rights to the property.
“The TV program airs at a time, at the end of the week, when people can come and hear about the two or three most interesting stories affecting business, finance and the economy, with perspective from leaders in the industry,” says Westin, in an interview. Bloomberg executives, he adds, feel that “this is something that is underserved, or unserved, right now.”
And like its predecessor, the show will have a rotating panel of influentials. Panelists regularly contributing to the program include: former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers...
- 1/10/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
At least half a dozen people have tried to kill Michael Moore. But the attempt that really stands out in his mind is the guy with the fertilizer bomb back in 2004. "He was going to plant it under my house in Michigan and blow it up," says Moore. "But one night he was cleaning his Ak-47 and it went off. Neighbors called the cops, and when they showed up he had all this ammo, bomb-making stuff and a hit list, with me at the top. He went to the federal penitentiary.
- 2/10/2016
- Rollingstone.com
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