Microsoft merges its Windows and Surface teams under one leader
Microsoft is bringing together its Windows experiences and its Windows devices teams to form one division, and it has appointed company veteran Pavan Davuluri with the task of leading it. As The Verge notes, Davuluri has been serving as head of the Surface team since last year, after Microsoft split…
Sam Altman is back on the OpenAI board. We still don’t know why he was fired.
Sam Altman is back on the board of OpenAI, nearly four months after the CEO was ousted, and quickly reinstated, from the company he founded. Although Altman had returned as the AI company’s top executive in November, a temporary board oversaw his return and the subsequent investigation into his conduct….
Apple’s iPhone designer is leaving to work with Jony Ive and Sam Altman on AI hardware
Apple’s designer exodus continues as product design chief Tang Tan is leaving the company and joining Jony Ive’s design firm LoveFrom, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. There, he’ll reportedly work on a new artificial intelligence hardware project backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman with aim of creating devices deploying the latest…
Microsoft joins OpenAI board as Sam Altman returns as CEO
Following Sam Altman’s rollercoaster of a return as OpenAI’s CEO, the company announced — on the eve of ChatGPT’s first anniversary — that it will now include Microsoft as a non-voting observer on its board. The question remains as to why the firm’s largest investor wasn’t on its board in…
Sam Altman reinstated as OpenAI CEO five days after being fired
Sam Altman is returning to OpenAI as CEO after his firing five days ago launched the company onto one of the wildest rollercoaster rides in tech history. Former president Greg Brockman, who resigned on Friday in protest, will also return, The Verge‘s sources say. The original board has been disbanded…
Sam Altman will not be returning to OpenAI
Talks over reinstating co-founder and former CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI have apparently broken down. According to The Information and Bloomberg, the board has now hired Altman’s fellow Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as OpenAI’s new interim CEO. This appointment was reportedly announced internally by co-founder and board director Ilya Sutskever….
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are meeting with OpenAI execs now at HQ in ongoing talks over reinstatement
Newly ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former president Greg Brockman are meeting with executives at the company’s San Francisco headquarters now as discussions about possibly reinstating their positions continue, The Information reports. Per The Information, interim CEO Mira Murati and others have been leading the push to get Altman…
Sam Altman was ‘shocked and saddened’ after he was fired as CEO of OpenAI
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were “shocked and saddened by what the board did” and are still trying to figure out what exactly happened. The former CEO and the former President of OpenAI have published a post on X, sharing the details of what they do know and how they…
OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman as ‘board no longer has confidence’ in his leadership
In a surprise shakeup of its c-suite Friday, OpenAI’s board of directors announced that CEO Sam Altman has been fired and will be leaving both the company and the board, effective immediately. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati has been named interim CEO. Altman’s oustering reportedly follows an internal “deliberative review…