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

AI firm’s board said Altman was ‘not consistently candid in his communications with the board’ and had lost its confidence

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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 …

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