OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to Return to Board After Dismissal and Rehiring

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will rejoin the board of OpenAI, along with three new directors, after being wrongly fired and rehired following a boardroom dustup. The company also faced criticism and a lawsuit for granting Microsoft an observer seat on the board.

CEO Sam Altman will return to the board of OpenAI, the company said on Friday, just months after a boardroom dustup that saw him fired and rehired by the company behind ChatGPT. Altman was also found to have been wrongly fired in an internal investigation that was launched in the days after his chaotic dismissal last year, the company said.

Altman will join the board with three other new directors: Sue Desmond-Hellmann, a former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, a former president of Sony. They will join Ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who joined in the immediate aftermath of the November 2023 tumult. Microsoft also gained an observer seat on OpenAI's board at the time, a move that drew criticism and a lawsuit fro

Openai CEO Sam Altman Board Dismissal Rehiring Directors Sue Desmond-Hellmann Nicole Seligman Bret Taylor Larry Summers Microsoft Lawsuit

 

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