In ousting CEO Sam Altman, ChatGPT loses its best fundraiser

The co-founder of OpenAI, which caused a sensation just a year ago with the introduction of ChatGPT, Altman has presented himself as the benevolent wizard behind the curtain of a technology that many say could upend entire industries and even mankind itself. But on Friday it was the earnest Altman who was upended after OpenAI’s board, in a surprise move, stripped him of his CEO title and directorship. He is out. Directors of the company, now worth about $80 billion, cited a failure to be “consistently candid in his communications.”