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OpenAI made it harder to fire Sam Altman

How many board directors does it take to fire OpenAI’s Sam Altman? More than was required in 2023, Elon Musk’s expert witness writes in new court documents. Loading audio narration… During OpenAI’s 2025 for-profit transition, it changed its governance structure to make it harder to fire the CEO, according to…

He beat Elon Musk in court once. Sam Altman hired him to do it again.

When Sam Altman needed someone to beat Elon Musk in court, he hired a lawyer who had done it once before: William Savitt. Loading audio narration… Savitt was a natural choice to take the case. For decades, he’d occupied the upper echelons of corporate litigation. He represented Twitter in 2022,…

Sam Altman says AI has led to the ‘revenge of the idea guys’

The idea guy’s time has finally come. Loading audio narration… OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who previously led the famed startup incubator Y Combinator, said that before AI, people used to joke about those who had the next great idea for an amazing startup but lacked the technical expertise to translate…

4 things you missed from Day 4 of the Musk v. Altman trial

Day Four of the blockbuster civil trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman began Thursday with Musk returning to the witness stand. Loading audio narration… Musk faced grilling by OpenAI and Altman’s lead lawyer, William Savitt, and a brief round of questioning by an attorney representing OpenAI backer Microsoft,…

Sam Altman falls out of love with universal basic income

Sam Altman once spent $14 million of his own money to study universal basic income. Now, the OpenAI CEO says he’s not sold on it. Loading audio narration… “I no longer believe in universal basic income as much as I once did,” Altman told The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson during…