Emmett Shear, the interim CEO of OpenAI, may be out of a job by the end of the hour, day or week given how fast and unexpectedly things […]
The Future Of ChatGPT Just Became A Circus
OpenAI is the research organization behind ChatGPT, the AI-generated chatbot that took the internet by storm last year for its capacity to have really weird conversations with tech journalists. It’s at the center of Microsoft’s big bet on generative AI tools transforming the world, gaming, and more, and it’s now at…
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Microsoft is the only real winner in the OpenAI debacle
OpenAI is in the process of fully collapsing on itself, following the ousting of former CEO Sam Altman in a shock board decision. Exactly why the board decided […]
OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman, Airbnb acquires GamePlanner.AI, and Epic battles Google over antitrust
Howdy, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that recaps the major tech industry happenings over the past week (or so). Microsoft’s Ignite conference, where […]
A timeline of Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI — and the fallout
In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company behind viral AI hits like […]
WTF is going on at OpenAI? We have theories
In perhaps the most unexpected tech news of the year, billionaire and AI evangelist Sam Altman has been ejected from his CEO role at OpenAI by the company’s […]
Who is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s new interim CEO?
In a surprising move, OpenAI today abruptly fired Sam Altman, its CEO and a member of its board of directors, and installed CTO Mira Murati as interim CEO. […]
Sam Altman breaks silence on OpenAI firing
After OpenAI’s board of directors announced Sam Altman was fired as CEO, Altman posted his response on Twitter. Details are still scant, but here’s what we know.
Sam Altman ousted as OpenAI’s CEO
Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that acts as the governing body for OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, GPT-4 and […]
Who knows what GamePlanner does, but Airbnb just bought the company
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. One of the most interesting stories on the site this week — both […]