{"id":18877,"date":"2025-05-21T06:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/every-person-that-clashed-with-him-has-left-the-rise-fall-and-spectacular-comeback-of-sam-altman\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:37:42","slug":"every-person-that-clashed-with-him-has-left-the-rise-fall-and-spectacular-comeback-of-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/every-person-that-clashed-with-him-has-left-the-rise-fall-and-spectacular-comeback-of-sam-altman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every person that clashed with him has left\u2019: the rise, fall and spectacular comeback of Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Elon Musk to his own board, anyone who has come up against the OpenAI CEO has lost. In a gripping new account of the battle for AI supremacy, writer Karen Hao says we should all be wary of the power he now wields<\/p>\n

The short-lived firing of Sam Altman, the CEO of possibly the world\u2019s most important AI company, was sensational. When he was sacked by OpenAI\u2019s board members, some of them believed the stakes could not have been higher \u2013 the future of humanity \u2013 if the organisation continued under Altman. Imagine Succession, with added apocalypse vibes. In early November 2023, after three weeks of secret calls and varying degrees of paranoia, the OpenAI board agreed: Altman had to go.<\/p>\n

The drama didn\u2019t stop there. After his removal, Altman\u2019s most loyal staff resigned, and others signed an open letter calling for his reinstatement. Investors, including its biggest, Microsoft, got spooked. Without talent or funding, OpenAI \u2013 which developed ChatGPT and was worth billions \u2013 wouldn\u2019t even exist. Some who had been involved in the decision to fire Altman switched sides and within days, he was reinstated. Is he now untouchable? \u201cCertainly he has entrenched his power,\u201d says Karen Hao, the tech journalist whose new book, Empire of AI, details this saga in a tense and absorbing history of OpenAI. The current board is \u201cmuch more allied with his interests,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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\nFrom Elon Musk to his own board, anyone who has come up against the OpenAI CEO has lost. In a gripping new account of the battle for AI supremacy, writer Karen Hao says we should all be wary of the power he now wields
\nThe short-lived firing of Sam Altman, the CEO of possibly the world\u2019s most important AI company, was sensational. When he was sacked by OpenAI\u2019s board members, some of them believed the stakes could not have been higher \u2013 the future of humanity \u2013 if the organisation continued under Altman. Imagine Succession, with added apocalypse vibes. In early November 2023, after three weeks of secret calls and varying degrees of paranoia, the OpenAI board agreed: Altman had to go.
\nThe drama didn\u2019t stop there. After his removal, Altman\u2019s most loyal staff resigned, and others signed an open letter calling for his reinstatement. Investors, including its biggest, Microsoft, got spooked. Without talent or funding, OpenAI \u2013 which developed ChatGPT and was worth billions \u2013 wouldn\u2019t even exist. Some who had been involved in the decision to fire Altman switched sides and within days, he was reinstated. Is he now untouchable? \u201cCertainly he has entrenched his power,\u201d says Karen Hao, the tech journalist whose new book, Empire of AI, details this saga in a tense and absorbing history of OpenAI. The current board is \u201cmuch more allied with his interests,\u201d she says. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Elon Musk to his own board, anyone who has come up against the OpenAI CEO has lost. In a gripping new account of the battle for AI supremacy, writer Karen Hao says we should all be wary of the power he now wields The short-lived firing of Sam Altman, the CEO of possibly the …<\/p>\n

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