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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Blake Montgomery and Dani Anguiano

OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

Sam Altman, the chief executive and co-founder of OpenAI, has been ousted from his own company after its board accused him of “being not consistently candid in his communications”.

Altman’s dismissal is a major shakeup in Silicon Valley. Following the launch of ChatGPT, the wildly popular chatbot developed by OpenAI, Altman became one of the world’s most visible tech executives and a sought-after expert on artificial intelligence.

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