OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
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Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
#2Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635058 You could predict this yesterday from the leaks that were coming out like https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executi...
Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
#3This is just anticlimactic
Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
#4Since https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sam-altman-to-return... is hardwalled, we need to find an alternate source. I've put a stub article up there for the moment. Is there a better one?
theinformation.com used to open specific articles for HN readers on request*, but eventually stopped answering our emails.
* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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Please don't do this here. If a story is soporific, there are others to read.
Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
#7If AGI achieved, Microsoft doesn't have the claim on it commercially.
Microsoft with 49% stake in the for-profit entity and non-observer seat, what actually protects Microsoft here? First hand information that AGI is reached?
Are we not seeing a card in Microsoft's hand here?
Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
#8> The company will also announce the appointment of three new directors, Sue Desmond-Hellmann, a former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nicole Seligman, a former president of Sony Entertainment, and Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart, the Information said.
This selection of directors seems...random? Is there a business reason for these directors? (aside from the obvious YC link with Instacart)
Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
#9I can't wait for the book(s) that will have details about what really happened over that period of chaos.
Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
#10> The company will also announce the appointment of three new directors, Sue Desmond-Hellmann, a former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nicole Seligman, a former president of Sony Entertainment, and Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart, the Information said. This selection of directors seems...random? Is there a business reason for these directors? (aside from the obvious YC link with Instacart)
Non profit / social focus person, media and entertainment person (that NYT suit might be followed by other m&e companies), direct to consumer + "real world digitalization" person.