This Appears to Be Why Sam Altman Actually Got Fired by OpenAI

It's been nearly 18 months since OpenAI Sam Altman was unceremoniously sacked by the firm before being summarily reinstated just a few days later — and a new book claims to have the tea behind the stunning coup. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book about Altman, Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey revealed, based on dozens of interviews with insiders, that the November 2023 episode jokingly referred to as the "turkey-shoot clusterf*ck" was ultimately caused by power struggles, politicking, and an alleged pattern of untruths. The root of the debacle seems, per Hagey's excerpt, to have stemmed from a discovery in the summer of 2023, when an unidentified board member learned by chance that OpenAI's so-called "Startup Fund" was allegedly not disbursing funds to intended investors. After months of obfuscation, the board learned that Altman himself owned the fund — a finding, it seems, that began to unravel mounting doubts in the CEO's leadership. Not long after Altman's ownership ... Read full article.