Sam Altman gets booted
Late last Friday, the most hyped-up hype-man in tech was unceremoniously fired by four of the six board members who controlled the company.
In a press release, the remaining board members at OpenAI said that Sam Altman would no longer be part of the company that he founded and ran as CEO. “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 board wrote. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
It was the fact that the board took the unusual step of hinting at some sort of vague misconduct by Altman that sent the press and public into a frenzy.
