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+import streamlit as st
+from controller.headlinesController import HeadlinesController
+
+st.title("NewsBro Demo")
+
+st.header("Sam Altman & OpenAI News")
+
+controller = HeadlinesController()
+
+headlines = controller.getHeadlines().serialize()
+# jsonify(headlines.serialize())
+st.json(headlines)
+
+

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+On Friday, OpenAI fired CEO Sam Altman in a surprise move that led to the resignation of President Greg Brockman and three senior scientists. The move also blindsided key investor and minority owner Microsoft, reportedly making CEO Satya Nadella furious. As Friday night wore on, reports emerged that the ousting was likely orchestrated by Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever over concerns about the safety and speed of OpenAI's tech deployment.
+"This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefits all of humanity," Sutskever told employees at an emergency all-hands meeting on Friday afternoon, as reported by The Information.
+Since its founding, OpenAI has pursued the development of artificial general intelligence (or AGI), which is a hypothetical technology that would be able to perform any intellectual task a human can do, potentially replacing a large number of humans at their jobs.
+
+Internally at OpenAI, insiders say that disagreements had emerged over the speed at which Altman was pushing for commercialization and company growth, with Sutskever arguing to slow things down. Sources told reporter Kara Swisher that OpenAI's Dev Day event on November 6, with Altman front and center in a keynote pushing consumer-like products, was an "inflection moment of Altman pushing too far, too fast."
+
+In a joint statement released Friday night, Altman and Brockman said they were "shocked and saddened" by the board's actions. And they weren't the only ones shocked by the news, as tech insiders took to social media on Friday to share their reactions. Angel investor Ron Conway wrote, "What happened at OpenAI today is a Board coup that we have not seen the likes of since 1985 when the then-Apple board pushed out Steve Jobs. It is shocking; it is irresponsible; and it does not do right by Sam & Greg or all the builders in OpenAI."
+
+OpenAI has an unusual structure where its for-profit arm is owned and controlled by a non-profit 501(c)(3) public charity. Prior to yesterday, that non-profit was controlled by a board of directors that included Altman, Brockman, Ilya Sutskever and three others who were not OpenAI employees: Adam D’Angelo, the CEO of Quora; Tasha McCauley, an adjunct senior management scientist at RAND corporation; and Helen Toner, director of strategy and foundational research grants at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Now, only Sutskever, D'Angelo, McCauley, and Toner remain.
+According to the joint statement from Brockman and Altman, Altman's firing came as a complete surprise to the pair, and they laid out a rough timeline of what happened. On Thursday night, Altman was asked to attend a remote board meeting on Friday at noon. The next day, Brockman, who was Chairman of the OpenAI board, was not invited to this board meeting, where Altman was fired.
+Around 30 minutes later, Brockman was informed by Sutskever that he was being removed from his board role but could remain at the company, and that Altman had been fired (Brockman declined, and resigned his role later on Friday). According to Brockman, the OpenAI management team was only made aware of these moves shortly after the fact, but former CTO (now interim CEO) Mira Murati had been informed on Thursday night.
+Key questions remain about accusations made against Altman in the OpenAI blog post that announced his departure, where the board said that Altman "was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities." That has yet to be clarified by the company, but insiders say the move was mostly a power play that resulted from a cultural schism between Altman and Sutskever over Altman's management style and drive for high-profile publicity. On September 29, Sutskever tweeted, "Ego is the enemy of growth."
+
+The schism is causing further turmoil on the inside. Three AI researchers loyal to Altman departed the company as well on Friday, resigning in reaction to the news: Jakub Pachocki, GPT-4 lead and OpenAI's director of research; Aleksander Madry, head of a team evaluating AI risk, and Szymon Sidor, an open source baselines researcher.
+
+Pushing back the "veil of ignorance"
+Rumors have already begun swirling about potential internal breakthroughs at OpenAI that may have intensified the slow/fast rift within the company, owing to Sutskever's role as co-lead of a "Superalignment" team that is tasked with figuring out how to control hypothetical superintelligent AI. At the APEC CEO Summit on Thursday, Altman said, "Four times now in the history of OpenAI—the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks—I’ve gotten to be in the room when we push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward. And getting to do that is like the professional honor of a lifetime."
+The concern here not necessarily being that OpenAI has developed superintelligence, which experts say is unlikely, but that the new breakthrough Altman mentioned may have added pressure to a company that is fighting within itself to proceed safely (from its non-profit branch) but also make money (from its for-profit subsidiary). Altman also recently said that GPT-5, presumed to be a powerful successor to the alarm-causing GPT-4, is now in development.
+
+As news spread, some predictably shared quips on social media. X user shaurya wrote, "this is like the roman empire for people who do matrix multiplication." And AI futurist Daniel Jeffries said, "The entire AI industry would like to thank the OpenAI board for giving us all a chance to catch up."
+
+But not all reactions were doom and gloom. As Friday night wore on, some at OpenAI made forward-looking statements. Evan Morikawa, Engineering Manager at OpenAI wrote on X, "For those wondering what’ll happen next, the answer is we’ll keep shipping. @sama & @gdb weren’t micro-managers. The ✨ comes from the many geniuses here in research product eng & design. There’s clear internal uniformity among these leaders that we’re here for the bigger mission."
+

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+Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, learned that OpenAI was ousting CEO Sam Altman just a minute before the news was shared with the world, according to a person familiar with the situation.
+
+Why it matters: Microsoft is ChatGPT maker OpenAI's closest partner and has deeply tied its fortunes to the AI startup, while OpenAI relies on Microsoft for funding as well as its cloud services.
+
+Catch up quick: OpenAI announced Altman's forced departure in a press release during the business day on Friday, less than a day after he had represented the company at the APEC conference in San Francisco. CTO Mira Murati was named interim CEO.
+
+What they're saying: "We have a long-term agreement with OpenAI with full access to everything we need to deliver on our innovation agenda and an exciting product roadmap; and remain committed to our partnership, and to Mira and the team," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a blog post.
+
+OpenAI declined to comment beyond its press statement announcing Altman's exit.
+Later Friday, Greg Brockman, OpenAI president and board chairman, announced he was quitting the firm.
+
+Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI, shared in a post on X, formerly Twitter, his message to the firm's staff: "I'm super proud of what we've all built together since starting in my apartment 8 year ago.... But based on today's news, I quit."
+The company hours earlier had said he would step down as board chairman but remain as president.

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+OpenAI announced Friday afternoon that CEO Sam Altman has departed the company, saying the executive “was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.”
+
+In a blog post disclosing Altman’s ouster, the company added that “the board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” The company did not immediately provide details on how Altman may have misled its board.
+
+Chief technology officer Mira Murati was appointed interim CEO.
+
+OpenAI President Greg Brockman said he had decided to leave the company, as well, apparently in response to Altman’s firing by the board.
+
+In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Altman wrote: “I loved my time at OpenAI. It was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. Most of all i loved working with such talented people. Will have more to say about what’s next later.”
+
+A few hours after the news about Altman’s firing, Brockman announced on X that he was leaving in response . “I’m super proud of what we’ve all built together since starting in my apartment 8 years ago,” Brockman wrote in a memo to OpenAI staff that he posted online. “But based on today’s news I quit. Genuinely wishing you all nothing but the best.”
+
+Microsoft 
+, which is the largest investor in OpenAI, provided a statement on the news, but did not directly address the reasons for Altman’s departure.
+
+”We have a long-term partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft remains committed to Mira and their team as we bring this next era of AI to our customers,” a spokesperson for Microsoft said.
+
+Microsoft shares fell slightly after the Altman news became public around 3:30 p.m. Friday. The stock closed down 1.7%.
+
+“This is a shocker and Altman was a key ingredient in the recipe for success of OpenAI,” says Dan Ives, who covers Microsoft and other tech firms for Wedbush Securities. “That said, we believe Microsoft and [its CEO Satya] Nadella will exert more control at OpenAI going forward with Altman gone.”
+
+OpenAI had earlier in the day said that Brockman was stepping down as chairman of the company, but that he would remain in his current role as President. Brockman subsequently decided not to stay.
+
+OpenAI’s board members include the company’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, along with three independent directors, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo; Helen Toner, Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants at the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology, and Tasha McCauley, a robotics engineer and entrepreneur. None of the directors responded to requests for comment.
+
+OpenAI noted in its blog post that Murati has been part of OpenAI’s leadership team for five years. “She brings a unique skill set, understanding of the company’s values, operations, and business, and already leads the company’s research, product, and safety functions,” the company said.
+
+“Given her long tenure and close engagement with all aspects of the company, including her experience in AI governance and policy, the board believes she is uniquely qualified for the role and anticipates a seamless transition while it conducts a formal search for a permanent CEO.”
+
+OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for further comment on the announcement.
+
+Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with the incubator Y Combinator, Brockman, investor Peter Thiel, Tesla 
+ CEO Elon Musk, Y Combinator co-founder Jessica Livingston, and the IT services company Infosys 
+. Originally created as a non-profit, OpenAI transitioned to a for-profit business in 2019. Altman previously served in various roles at Y Combinator, including President and Chairman.

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+The tech world is in shock.
+
+On Friday, Sam Altman - one of the brightest stars of the booming artificial intelligence industry, a man who for many had become the go-to spokesperson for AI - was unceremoniously dumped from the company he co-founded, a firm that introduced many people directly to the concept for the first time.
+
+Yes, AI has been in our lives for ages - curating our social media feeds, recommending movies on video streaming platforms, playing a hand in calculating our insurance premiums.
+
+But until the arrival of the AI chatbot ChatGPT, most people had never actually spoken to it before - or had it talk back.
+
+Artificial intelligence is an incredibly powerful technology. It sounds like a bad movie plot but plenty of experts seriously say it could either save the world or destroy it.
+
+They are high stakes - and Mr Altman is one of relatively few people with that future in his hands.
+
+His dismissal from OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT bot, was as sudden as it was dramatic. It's fair to say my phone blew up when the news broke, as the tech community and journalists scrambled to make sense of it all.
+
+In a statement, his board of directors said they believed he had not been "consistently candid in communications" with them, and as a result they had "lost confidence" in his leadership.
+
+Reading between the lines, this suggests there was something he either had or had not told them - and somehow he's been caught out. The wording is so powerful, it almost sounds personal.
+
+There are swirling rumours but, so far, no further facts.
+
+It's not unknown in tech firms for a toxic working culture to lead to the boss's downfall - but there has been no grumblings about that in the case of OpenAI.
+
+In October it was set to be valued at $80bn (£64bn) - so there's no apparent cash problem.
+
+Is there a problem with the tech itself? A few days ago Mr Altman wrote about ChatGPT struggling to meet a "surge in demand" and having to pause sign-ups for its top-level subscription service. Is that enough to face the sack over though?
+
+His co-founder Greg Brockman, who was dismissed from the board a few minutes after Mr Altman, said both men were shocked by how suddenly it had happened.
+
+There were only six people on that board, including Mr Brockman and Mr Altman. If they were indeed blindsided, that means this decision was taken by just four. What happened to make this small group act so decisively and so quickly?
+
+Mr Altman, now the former CEO of OpenAI, had addressed world leaders in discussions about the risks and benefits posed by the powerful tech he was pioneering.
+
+He memorably said that AI was "a tool and not a creature" and seemed honest about his fears that it could one day become out of control.
+
+Just two weeks ago he was in the UK at the world's first AI safety summit as one of only around 100 global delegates. He gave a speech last week about the future of his company and its tech.
+
+I think it's safe to assume he genuinely had no idea what was coming.
+
+Silicon Valley's big guns have so far rallied behind Mr Altman, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who described him as a "hero of mine".
+
+Microsoft boss Satya Nadella said he had "confidence" in the firm. Well, he needs to - Microsoft has invested billions in it, and the tech which underpins ChatGPT is now embedded in Microsoft's office apps.
+
+One character who has been uncharacteristically quiet so far is Elon Musk. He and Mr Altman set up OpenAI together, along with others, but are said to have fallen out over a decision to move it away from being non-profit. There are rumours that it is this very issue which has once again divided opinion within the firm now.
+
+Mr Musk's company X, formerly Twitter, has released a new chatbot called Grok. Perhaps he's not unhappy about OpenAI being a bit distracted by a drama of its own making for a while.
+
+In the meantime it falls to chief technology officer Mira Murati to take over as interim CEO. The tech world is a small one - she previously worked at Musk's car firm Tesla.

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+When it comes to artificial intelligence, one of the most commonly debated issues in the technology community is safety — so much so that it has helped lead to the ouster of OpenAI's co-founder Sam Altman, according to Bloomberg News.
+
+And those concerns boil down to a truly unfathomable one: Will AI kill us all? Allow me to set your mind at ease: AI is no more dangerous than the many other existential risks facing humanity, from supervolcanoes to stray asteroids to nuclear war.
+
+I am sorry if you don’t find that reassuring. But it is far more optimistic than someone like the AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, who believes humanity has entered its last hour. In his view, AI will be smarter than us and will not share our goals, and soon enough we humans will go the way of the Neanderthals. Others have called for a six-month pause of AI progress, so we humans can get a better grasp of what’s going on.
+
+AI is just the latest instantiation of the many technological challenges humankind has faced throughout history. The printing press and electricity involved pluses and misuses too, but it would have been a mistake to press the “stop” or even the “slow down” buttons on either.
+
+AI worriers like to start with the question: “What is your ‘p’ [probability] that AI poses a truly existential risk?” Since “zero” is obviously not the right answer, the discussion continues: Given a non-zero risk of total extinction, shouldn’t we be truly cautious? You then can weigh the potential risk against the forthcoming productivity improvements from AI, as one Stanford economist does in a recent study. You still end up pretty scared.
+
+One possible counterargument is that we can successfully align the inner workings of AI systems with human interests. I am optimistic on that front, but I have more fundamental objections to how the AI pessimists are framing their questions.
+
+First, I view AI as more likely to lower than to raise net existential risks. Humankind faces numerous existential risks already. We need better science to limit those risks, and strong AI capabilities are one way to improve science. Our default path, without AI, is hardly comforting.
+
+The above-cited risks may not kill each and every human, but they could deal civilization as we know it a decisive blow. China or some other hostile power attaining super-powerful AI before the US does is yet another risk, not quite existential but worth avoiding, especially for Americans.
+
+It is true that AI may help terrorists create a bioweapon, but thanks to the internet that is already a major worry. AI may help us develop defenses and cures against those pathogens. We don’t have a scientific way of measuring whether aggregate risk goes up or down with AI, but I will opt for a world with more intelligence and science rather than less.
+
+Another issue is whether we should confront issues probabilistically or by thinking at the margin. The AI doomsayers tend to ask the question this way: “What is your ‘p’ for doom?” A better way might be this: “We’re not going to stop AI, so what should we do?” The obvious answer is to work to make it better, safer, and more likely to lower risks.
+
+It is very hard to estimate AI or indeed any other existential risk in the abstract. We can make more progress by considering a question in a specific real-world context.
+
+Note that the pessimistic arguments are not supported by an extensive body of peer-reviewed research — not in the way that, say, climate-change arguments are. So we’re being asked to stop a major technology on the basis of very little confirmed research. In another context, this might be called pseudo-science.
+
+Furthermore, the risk of doom does not show up in market prices. Risk premiums are not especially high at the moment, and most economic variables appear to be well-behaved and within normal ranges. If you think AI is going to end the world, there is likely some intermediate period when you could benefit by going long on volatility and short on the market. If nothing else, you could give away money and alleviate human suffering before the final curtain falls. Yet that is not a bet that many seasoned traders are willing to make.
+
+When I ask AI pessimists if they have adjusted their portfolio positions in accord with their beliefs, they almost always say they have not. At the end of the day, they are too sensible to think probabilistically and de novo about each and every life decision. The best ones are working to make AI safer — and that is a project we should continue to encourage.

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+Sam Altman is out at OpenAI.
+
+The board of the AI company, which is behind ChatGPT, announced on Friday that it is "no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," citing that he was "not consistently candid in his communications."
+
+Mira Murati, who was serving as OpenAI's chief technology officer, will step in as interim CEO until the company chooses a permanent CEO.
+
+"We are grateful for Sam's many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI," a statement from OpenAI's board said. "At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward."
+
+Altman responded shortly after OpenAI's announcement.
+
+"i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people," he posted on X. "will have more to say about what's next later."
+
+Altman posted on X Friday night, writing that the experience felt like "reading your own eulogy while you're still alive."
+
+Until then, Altman's latest post to X was on Tuesday and showed no signs he would be leaving.
+
+On Friday evening, OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman announced he quit the company. In an X post, Brockman said that Altman was unaware that the board, including OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, would be removing him as CEO until he joined a Google meeting at noon on Friday.
+
+"Last night, Sam got a text from Ilya asking to talk at noon Friday. Sam joined a Google Meet and the whole board, except Greg, was there," Brockman wrote, referring to himself in the third person. "Ilya told Sam he was being fired and that the news was going out very soon."
+
+In 2015, Altman cofounded OpenAI as a research nonprofit focused on building artificial intelligence "in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole" with a group that included Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and Trevor Blackwell. Silicon Valley heavyweights like Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel joined the founders in pledging $1 billion to fund the project.
+
+He took the helm as CEO in 2019, the same year the firm ditched its nonprofit status to become a "capped-profit."
+
+Three years later, in 2022, OpenAI became a household name when it debuted ChatGPT to the world. Within five days, the chatbot had over 1 million users. Two months after launch, it had 100 million monthly active users.
+
+The chatbot's popularity fueled growth at OpenAI, as Microsoft ramped up its investment in the company to the tune of $10 billion. Since then, the company has released more advanced models of its signature chatbot, as well as an updated text-to-image generator DALL-E 3.
+
+"You guys have built something magical," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Altman earlier this month.
+
+Meanwhile, competitors like Google raced to keep up, while an economy of AI startups developed seemingly overnight.
+
+But Altman's time leading OpenAI wasn't without controversy.
+
+In 2020, MIT Technology Review published an investigation into the company, claiming OpenAI fostered a culture of secrecy and hid its research from the general public and competitors.
+
+Prior to OpenAI, Sam Altman was the president of Y Combinator, after his startup Loopt was part of the accelerator's first class. He was praised for increasing the quality of startups that took part in the program.
+
+On the side, Altman was investing in a number of companies, including Reddit, Helion energy, and Instacart.
+
+"You want to invest in messy, somewhat broken companies," he told The New Yorker in 2016. "You can treat the warts on top, and because of the warts the company will be hugely underpriced."
+
+In addition to being the CEO of OpenAI until Friday, he is also the cofounder of Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that he launched in 2019.
+
+Taking the reins from Altman as interim CEO is Murati, who formerly led the technology team at OpenAI. A trained mechanical engineer, she worked at Tesla and Leap Motion before joining OpenAI in 2018 as a researcher.

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+OpenAI, the company behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT, fired its CEO and founder, Sam Altman, on Friday. His stunning departure sent shockwaves through the budding AI industry.
+
+The company, in a statement, said an internal investigation found that Altman was not always truthful with the board.
+
+“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its statement. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
+
+OpenAI announced Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO until a permanent successor is chosen.
+
+In a tweet following the news, Altman said he “loved my time at openai.”
+
+‘it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people,” he said. “will have more to say about what’s next later.”
+
+The news follows OpenAI’s first developer conference held in San Francisco last week, where Altman served as the master of ceremonies, unveiling a series of new artificial intelligence tool updates, including the ability for developers to create custom versions of ChatGPT. He also shared about 2 million developers now use the platform, and about 90% of Fortune 500 companies are using the tools internally. It currently has 100 million active users.
+
+ChatGPT launched late last year, making Altman an overnight quasi-celebrity and the face of a new crop of AI tools that can generate images and texts in response to simple user prompts. The technology is called generative AI and has since been deployed by Microsoft on its search engine and other tools. Google has a rival called “Bard,” and other generative AI tools have been developed in recent months.
+
+Not long after its release, ChatGPT became a household name almost synonymous with AI itself. CEOs used it to draft emails, people built websites with no prior coding experience, and it passed exams from law and business schools.
+
+Although Altman has long been an advocate of AI, he is also one of its biggest critics. In testimony before Congress earlier this year, Altman described the technology’s current boom as a pivotal moment.
+
+“Is [AI] gonna be like the printing press that diffused knowledge, power, and learning widely across the landscape that empowered ordinary, everyday individuals that led to greater flourishing, that led above all to greater liberty?” he said. “Or is it gonna be more like the atom bomb – huge technological breakthrough, but the consequences (severe, terrible) continue to haunt us to this day?”
+
+He was also one of several tech CEOs to meet with White House leaders, including Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden, this year to emphasize the importance of ethical and responsible AI development.
+
+Others wanted Altman and OpenAI to move more cautiously. Elon Musk, who helped found OpenAI before breaking from the group, and dozens of tech leaders, professors and researchers in urged artificial intelligence labs like OpenAI to stop the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing “profound risks to society and humanity.” (At the same time, some experts questioned if those who signed the letter sought to maintain their competitive edge over other companies.)
+
+OpenAI declined CNN’s request for further comment.
+
+Arun Chandrasekaran, an analyst at Gartner Research, called Altman’s exit “shocking,” as he’s been championing OpenAI’s cause with developers, consumers, regulators and others. “I am sure the OpenAI board took this decision after a lot of deliberation,” he said.
+
+“OpenAI does have a deep bench of technical leaders and it will be interesting to see how its next generation of leaders steer by continuing its fast paced innovation culture, scaling the business and meeting the expectations of regulators and society at large.”
+
+Murati was born and raised in Albania and studied engineering at Dartmouth. She joined OpenAI in 2018. Previously, she managed the product and engineering teams at augmented reality company Ultraleap (then called Leap Motion) and earlier worked at Tesla, where she helped develop the Model X.
+
+The news shocked AI insiders, analysts and tech executives alike. Microsoft, which poured millions of dollars into Open AI earlier this year, told CNN in a statement it “remains committed to Mira and their team as we bring this next era of AI to our customers,” according to a company spokesperson.
+
+Microsoft’s stock price slid one and a half percent Friday and fell about another 1% in afterhours trading.
+
+In a tweet, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called Altman “a hero of mine.”
+
+“He built a company from nothing to $90 Billion in value, and changed our collective world forever,” Schmidt said. “I can’t wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it’s going to be simply incredible. Thank you [Altman] for all you have done for all of us.”
+
+Reece Hayden, an analyst at ABI Research, said this could be a “big blow” for commentators calling for AI regulation.
+
+“Sam Altman has been a passionate advocate for this, and this could signal that OpenAI are leaning towards a more self-regulatory approach,” Hayden said.

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+Sam Altman, a key figure in the creation of landmark generative AI application ChatGPT, has been fired by the OpenAI board of directors over an apparent lack of candor in his communications with the board.
+
+According to a statement issued by OpenAI Friday, Altman’s departure is the result of a “deliberative review process by the board,” which resulted in a finding that he “was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.”
+
+The statement said that the board now no longer has confidence in Altman’s ability to continue at the helm of one of the AI world’s most influential companies.
+
+“We are grateful for Sam’s many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI,” the board said in a statement. “At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward.”
+
+
+In a statement on X (formerly Twitter), Altman said, "i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people."
+
+Board Chairman Greg Brockman will also leave his role as a result of the shakeup. OpenAI initially stated that Brockman would remain in his role as president, but shortly after the announcement of the reshuffling, he announced that he would quit the company entirely. The company’s CTO, Mira Murati, will take over as interim CEO, according to OpenAI, and the board will begin to conduct a formal search for a permanent replacement. Brockman will report to Murati, the company noted.
+
+ Ritu Jyoti, group vice president for worldwide AI and automation research at IDC, called the shakeup “astonishing,” noting that Altman had been present at many public events, even in the days before his ouster, and that there was no sense of trouble in the offing for the CEO. “I’m sure the board has taken the right decision,” she said. “But it’s quite unexpected.”"
+
+ Brockman and Murati were both promoted to their former roles in May 2023. Brockman has been closely involved in both broad strategy for the company as well as personal coding contributions, and has focused on training “flagship AI systems” since assuming the role of president. Murati is the former head of OpenAI’s research, product and partnership teams, and was credited by the company for the release of its research on DALL-E, the well-known image generation AI system.
+
+Altman is a former startup CEO, having co-founded social networking site Loopt in 2005. He then became a venture capitalist, working with Y Combinator for just under a decade. He was intimately involved in the genesis of OpenAI, and was one of its earliest funders. He became CEO in 2020.
+
+OpenAI, when reached for further comment, would only refer to the company’s official statement on the matter. The precise nature of Altman’s purported dishonesty in his dealings with the board remains unclear, as do the reasons for Brockman’s removal from the board.

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+OpenAI co-founder and AI wunderkind Sam Altman is out as the company’s CEO.
+
+In what can only be described as a Friday afternoon news dump, the generative AI firm named Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, as its interim CEO effective immediately.
+
+In a posting, the company said Altman’s departure comes after “a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
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+The company also announced Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board, but will remain with the company.
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+Big dollars and big ideas
+OpenAI, the startup behind the artificial intelligence tools ChatGPT and DALL-E, made waves back in January when Microsoft confirmed it has agreed to a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment” into the company. It is believed the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant invested as much as $10 billion in the deal.
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+Then in April, OpenAI held a $300 million tender offer with the likes of Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz at a valuation of around $29 billion.
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+Finally, just last month, a report in The Information said Thrive Capital will lead a deal to buy the OpenAI shares at a price that will value the artificial intelligence giant at at least $80 billion.
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+As the company’s profile and valuation have both risen, so has Altman, who now is the face of AI to many.
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+Earlier this year he appeared before Congress to discuss AI regulation, and just last week served as emcee of OpenAI’s first developer conference in San Francisco.
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+Altman, who formerly headed startup accelerator Y Combinator, also is an active investor, especially in AI-related startups. He has invested in companies such as  Neuralink and Vital Biosciences.
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+He also has a significant number of investments through a variety of firms including Altman Capital, Apollo Projects and Hydrazine Capital.
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+Altman is a co-founder of Tools For Humanity — which backs the somewhat controversial crypto project Worldcoin. The project’s World ID platform is attempting to create unique digital identities — based on blockchain technology — for people by scanning their eyes with a small orb. The idea has led to many questions surrounding AI, data and privacy.

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+The co-founder and president of OpenAI abruptly quit late Friday, hours after the shocking firing of CEO Sam Altman just hours earlier.
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+“We’ve been through tough & great times together, accomplishing so much despite all the reasons it should have been impossible. But based on today’s news, I quit,” Greg Brockman announced on X.
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+The statement came after Altman was fired by the company he helped make a leading force in the artificial intelligence industry.
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+“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in a blog post. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
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+The board provided no details of Altman’s alleged lack of candor and declined to answer any follow-up questions about the bombshell shakeup.
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+Altman did not immediately return a call from The Daily Beast, but in a post to X on Friday afternoon, he acknowledged his ouster, writing, “i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later.” He ended the post with a “saluting” emoji.
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+He later said he was overwhelmed by the “outpouring of love.”
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+“Today was a weird experience in many ways. but one unexpected one is that it has been sorta like reading your own eulogy while you’re still alive. the outpouring of love is awesome. one takeaway: go tell your friends how great you think they are.”
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+Brockman separately posted on X that he and Altman were “still trying to figure out exactly what happened.” He said Altman had received a text message from OpenAI’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, on Thursday night asking to join a virtual meeting the next day, where he was subsequently told he was “being fired and that the news was going out very soon.”
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+OpenAI’s board appointed Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati to serve as interim CEO.
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+The news reportedly shocked employees at OpenAI, who first heard about the news when it was announced publicly, according to The Verge.
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+Microsoft, a major investor in the company, told the outlet it would continue to work with OpenAI and remains “committed to Mira and their team as we bring this next era of AI to our customers.” But the tech giant was reportedly “blindsided” by the news and found out just before it was announced.
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+Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sought to downplay the situation in a post on X, writing, “We have a long-term agreement with OpenAI with full access to everything we need to deliver on our innovation agenda and an exciting product roadmap; and remain committed to our partnership.”
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+According to tech outlet The Information, Sutskever tried to reassure employees during an all-hands meeting on Friday, telling them that the tumult would ultimately “make us feel closer.”
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+Altman came to OpenAI after serving as president of the prominent startup incubator Y-Combinator and after launching his own start-up, Loopt. The AI company soared to prominence with the debut of ChatGPT, a hugely popular AI chatbot. The company’s most recent product, ChatGPT Plus, was so popular it had to pause signups earlier this month.
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+Along with his role as CEO of OpenAI, Altman, 38, served as a sort of public face for the artificial intelligence industry. On what New York magazine dubbed a “world tour” this spring, Altman met with the heads of state of France, Spain, India, South Korea, Germany, and the U.K. He also testified before the U.S. Congress on the potential risks and benefits of AI technology and attended dinner at the White House.
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+Just a day before his firing, Altman appeared on OpenAI’s behalf at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit in San Francisco, where he further evangelized AI.
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+“I think this will be the most transformative and beneficial technology yet invented,” he said, adding that new technology like ChatGPT is “like the ‘Star Trek’ computer I was always promised.”
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+Though it started as a nonprofit, launched with major donations from Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel and others in 2015, OpenAI shifted to a for-profit model in 2019 to attract venture funding. The move frustrated donors like Musk, who tweeted earlier this year, “I’m still confused as to how a non-profit to which I donated ~$100M somehow became a $30B market cap for-profit. If this is legal, why doesn’t everyone do it?”
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+Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who is building his own AI initiative, called Altman a “hero” in a tweet Friday.
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+“He built a company from nothing to $90 Billion in value, and changed our collective world forever,” he wrote. “I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible.”

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+Sam Altman, the founder and CEO of OpenAI, has departed the company, its board of directors said Friday. OpenAI is behind the pioneering AI chatbot ChatGPT.
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+OpenAI's board wrote in a statement that Altman will step down as CEO and will be replaced temporarily by Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati.
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+The search for a permanent CEO continues, the statement read.
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+Altman's departure follows 'deliberate review process'
+"Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board," the company said, "which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities."
+
+Altman acknowledged he was leaving OpenAI in a post on X, formerly Twitter, but did not say anything about his interaction with the board.
+
+"i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later," he wrote.
+
+The board also said that OpenAI President Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board but "will remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO."
+
+But Brockman posted a message on X, formerly Twitter, he sent to OpenAI employees in which he wrote, "based on today's news, i quit."
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+The company said its board consists of OpenAI's chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, and three non-employees: Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, tech entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner of the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
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+Altman: a well-known face of AI
+Altman helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit research laboratory in 2015 and his profile grew as the popularity of ChatGPT grew over the last few years.
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+He became a well-known face in the halls of government in debates over AI regulation and on a world tour earlier this year, he was mobbed by a crowd of adoring fans at an event in London.
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+OpenAI’s key business partner, Microsoft, which has invested billions of dollars into the startup and helped provide the computing power to run its AI systems, said the transition won’t affect its relationship. 

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+Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were "shocked and saddened by what the board did" and are still trying to figure out what exactly happened. The former CEO and the former President of OpenAI have published a post on X, sharing the details of what they do know and how they found out the former was being fired. Apparently, company co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever invited Altman for a meeting at noon on Friday, which was then attended by the whole board except for Brockman. It was at that meeting that Altman found out he was being fired and that OpenAI was going to announce it "very soon."
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+Shortly after that, Sutskever reportedly invited Brockman to a separate Google Meet conference, where he was told that Altman had gotten fired and that he was being removed from the board. However, the board members told him that he was "vital to the company and would retain his role." Brockman chose to quit on his own. The two former OpenAI executives also said that the rest of the company's management team outside of interim CEO Mira Murati only found out about the board's decision after Altman was already removed from his post. "The outpouring of support has been really nice; thank you, but please don’t spend any time being concerned," their joint statement reads. "We will be fine. Greater things coming soon."
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+While OpenAI's c-suite shakeup might have come as a surprise to onlookers, employees were reportedly very much aware that turmoil was brewing within the organization. According to The Information, Altman's ouster followed internal arguments on whether OpenAI was developing artificial intelligence technology in a safe manner. During the all-hands meeting after Altman's firing, employees asked Sutskever if the CEO's removal was a "coup" or a "hostile takeover." That seems to imply that some personnel were wondering whether the organization's leadership removed Altman because he was was commercializing OpenAI's technology too quickly at the expense of potential safety concerns.
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+Bloomberg says Altman and Sutskever were the two people within the organization who butted heads the most when it came to the speed of development and the company's commercialization. Sutskever is one of the two employees leading a team within OpenAI that's dedicated to preventing its technologies from going rogue. He and his allies within the company may also have been put off by Altman raising funds using OpenAI's name, Bloomberg continues. The former CEO had huge ambitions for OpenAI, and the news organization says he was looking to secure funding worth tens of millions of dollars from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds in order to develop AI chips that can compete with NVIDIA processors.
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+The well-sourced journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher posted similar information on X. She said employees felt that "the profit direction of the company under Altman and the speed of development" were at odds with the "nonprofit side dedicated to more safety and caution." Swisher also said she expects more major departures of "top folks" at OpenAI. The Information reported afterward that three senior researchers have left the company: Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI's director of research, Aleksander Madry, who headed a team evaluating potential risks from AI, and Szymon Sidor, who'd been with the organization for seven years.
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+These concerns over the safety of AI development within the organization didn't pop up overnight, however. OpenAI has been grappling with the issue from the beginning, and it's the reason why a group of employees left in 2020 to form their own startup that became known as Anthropic. Still, investors were blindsided by Altman's firing, Forbes reports. Even Microsoft, which pledged to invest $10 billion into the organization over the next few years, reportedly learned about his removal a minute before the announcement went out.

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+Sam Altman has been pushed out of AI juggernaut Open AI after an internal review found he had not been “consistently candid” with his representations to the board.
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+“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in a press release. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
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+OpenAI’s chief technology officer Mira Murati will take over as interim CEO. Cofounder Greg Brockman was to leave his role as chairman of the board and report to the CEO, but he resigned hours later.
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+OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Altman tweeted, “i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. Most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later.”
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+Update: Later on Friday night, Brockman posted an account of the board’s actions on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. “We are still trying to figure out exactly what happened,” Brockman wrote, before describing how the board surprised Altman and him separately with the news. “If I start going off, the OpenAI board should go after me for the full value of my shares,” Altman followed. Altman owns no shares.
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+The board consists of OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, independent directors Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner. A press release issued by the company noted that “the majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI.”
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+Launched in 2015 as a non-profit with the mission to build AI that was “safe and broadly beneficial,” the company has grown into one of the most powerful AI firms in the world. It parted ways with early backer Elon Musk over disagreements about the future of the company, but Altman managed to build the company into a leader in a new wave of AI in Silicon Valley.
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+Its work became front and center in November 2022 with the arrival of ChatGPT, the large language model that has revolutionized everything from writing code to school essays to legal briefs. Soon after, Microsoft doubled down on an earlier investment with an additional $10 billion, securing OpenAI’s position at the front of the generative AI wave, which founder Bill Gates has said is ”every bit as important as the PC, as the internet.”
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+It also caught the major tech companies off guard, prompting Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to issue a code red, and swiftly released an upgrade to its BARD chatbot. Co-founder Sergey Brin even rejoined the company as engineer to bolster Alphabet’s efforts. After Microsoft joined forces with OpenAI to power its Bing search engine, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella quipped that the move had caused Google to “dance.” “I want people to know we made them dance,” he said.
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+The company’s success positioned Altman as the face of a new AI frontier, putting him in front of government leaders and among industry heads as the sector’s prime advocate and innovator. More recently, he played a visible role in advising the White House on its executive order to regulate AI technology, while addressing national security concerns.
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+Altman, who was previously president of the elite startup incubator Y Combinator, has had his hand in several ventures outside of OpenAI. He is the cofounder of Worldcoin, the controversial crypto project that seeks to create a universal basic income by scanning the eyes of people with a high tech orb.
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+At a Worldcoin company offsite last May, Altman hinted at his approach to leadership and product development when it comes to all of his projects. “Scale it up and see what happens,” he said, according to audio obtained by Forbes. Scaling up “earlier than it makes sense to …is super, super valuable,” he told employees.
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+Altman’s image as AI leader continued as recently as Wednesday morning, when he sat on a panel at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, telling those gathered that while humanity is “on a path to self-destruction as a species right now,” artificial intelligence could be a solution.
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+But by Friday afternoon, he was out as CEO, effective immediately. “We are grateful for Sam’s many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI,” OpenAi’s board wrote in its press statement announcing his departure. “At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward.”

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+OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman said he is "shocked and saddened" by the company's board of directors' decision to fire CEO Sam Altman.
+
+The board said in a press release on Friday that Altman was leaving OpenAI because of his lack of communication with the board. After learning of Atman's departure, Brockman announced he was quitting as company president based on the board's decision.
+
+"Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today," Brockman wrote just before midnight Friday night on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who have been reaching out."
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+OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati was appointed by the board as the company’s interim CEO until a full-time replacement for Altman is hired.
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+Brockman said he and Altman are trying to figure out exactly what happened that led to the board's decision to fire Altman. Brockman also provided a timetable surrounding his and Altman's departure from the company.
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+Altman received a text on Thursday night from Ilya Sutskever, an OpenAI co-founder and the company's chief scientist, asking to speak on Friday at noon, Brockman wrote in his post on X. Altman joined a Google Meet on Friday and nearly the whole board, with the exception of Brockman, was present.
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+Sutskever informed Altman that he was being fired and that news of his ouster would be made public soon.
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+Brockman said he received a text from Sutskever at 12:19 p.m. on Friday asking for a quick call. Minutes later, Sutskever sent a Google Meet link and Brockman was told he was being removed from the board but that he was vital to the company and would retain his job with the company.  He was also told of the news that Altman had been fired.
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+The management team was made aware of the news shortly after the calls, except for Murati, who was informed Thursday night, according to Brockman.
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+"The outpouring of support has been really nice; thank you, but please don't spend any time being concerned. We will be fine. Greater things coming soon," Brockman wrote.
+
+Microsoft announced earlier this year it will invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI, extending collaborations between the two companies to include AI supercomputing and research, while enabling both to independently commercialize the resulting advanced AI technologies.

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+Altman became a tech world sensation with the release nearly a year ago of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with unprecedented capabilities, churning out human-level content like poems or artwork in just seconds.
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+His dismissal caught the tech world by surprise, with rumors rife on social media as to the cause of the sudden sacking.
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+A statement about the firing by OpenAI referred to its stated mission of making sure AI benefits everyone, and said that new leadership is needed for the company to move forward.
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+Fellow OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman was pushed from the company's board in the shakeup and put out late in the day that he quit.
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+"I'm super proud of what we've built... but based on today's news, I quit," Brockman said in a post at X, formerly known as Twitter.
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+"I continue to believe in the mission of creating safe AGI (artificial general intelligence) that benefits all of humanity."
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+Analysts scrambled to interpret the shakeup, and the sacking of 38-year-old Altman, a Stanford University dropout, entrepreneur and computer coder.
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+"It sounded as though there were some ethical concerns which pushed the board to do something," said Creative Strategies analyst Carolina Milanesi.
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+"If he is being ousted because of ethical concerns, that is only going to be good for the company."
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+OpenAI's board said that Altman's departure followed a thorough review that found "he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities."
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+"The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," it concluded.
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+In a post on X, Altman said he "loved my time at OpenAI."
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+"It was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit."
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+He promised "more to say about what's next later."
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+The launch of ChatGPT ignited a race in AI -- hailed as the next big chapter in technology -- with contenders including tech giants Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta. 
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+Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI and has woven the company's technology into its offerings, including search engine Bing. 
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+Altman has testified before US Congress about AI and spoken with heads of state about the technology, as pressure ramps up to regulate against risks such as AI's potential use in bioweapons, misinformation and other threats.
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+Altman will be replaced on an interim basis by Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer, the statement said.
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+Microsoft has a long-term agreement with OpenAI and remains "committed to our partnership, and to Mira and the team," chief executive Satya Nadella said in a post.
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+"Together, we will continue to deliver the meaningful benefits of this technology to the world."
+
+Wedbush analyst Dan Ives believed that OpenAI's momentum is unlikely to be slowed by Altman's firing.
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+"Altman out as CEO of OpenAI is a shocker but ultimately Microsoft will just have more control of the situation," Ives said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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+"We see little concern going forward with him gone," Ives added.
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+OpenAI's board of directors includes OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
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+Altman earlier this month led a major developers' conference for OpenAI, announcing new products that were largely met positively in Silicon Valley.
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+The young executive on Thursday told AFP he understood some of the worries over AI and its disruptive powers.
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+"(I have) lots of empathy for why anyone would feel, however they feel, about this," he said of the platform that is credited with launching the revolution in generative artificial intelligence.
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+Altman was speaking on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco where he was swarmed by fans after his appearance, many of whom wanted to take selfies with him.

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+Sam Altman, one of the most influential leaders in the burgeoning AI industry, is leaving OpenAI, the company he helped start in 2015 and led as CEO.
+
+The surprise news, announced Friday afternoon, comes just a few weeks after Altman led OpenAI’s first developer day, sharing the stage with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, a key OpenAI partner that has poured billions into the company.
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+In a statement, OpenAI said Altman “was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.”
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+“The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI,” the company said.
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+OpenAI CTO Mira Murati will serve as interim CEO.
+
+Greg Brockman, who helped start the company with Altman, is stepping down as chairman of the board. OpenAI initially said that Brockman would remain in his role at OpenAI, reporting to the CEO. However, late Friday, Brockman said he was leaving the company “after learning today’s news.” Update: Brockman later tweeted Friday that he and Altman were “shocked and saddened by what the board did today.”
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+“We are grateful for Sam’s many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI,” the company said. “At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward.”
+
+OpenAI partners closely with Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, powering a popular Azure OpenAI service for the company’s cloud platform and contributing to the company’s AI search and productivity apps.
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+Microsoft invested an initial $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019 and added another $10 billion in January of this year.
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+Microsoft was “blindsided” by the news of Altman’s departure, according to Axios.
+
+“We have a long-term partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft remains committed to Mira and their team as we bring this next era of AI to our customers,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to GeekWire.
+
+In a tweet, Nadella said “we have a long-term agreement with OpenAI with full access to everything we need to deliver on our innovation agenda and an exciting product roadmap; and remain committed to our partnership, and to Mira and the team.”
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+OpenAI started as a nonprofit but later created a for-profit subsidiary buoyed by the release of ChatGPT last year and the partnership with Microsoft.
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+Matt McIlwain, managing director at Madrona Venture Group, told CNBC that the combination of Altman’s departure and Brockman getting booted from the chairman role — and not being appointed as CEO — “is intriguing to say the least at a corporate level.”
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+At its developer event earlier this month, OpenAI is introduced a way for individual ChatGPT users to create customized versions of its popular AI chatbot, personalized for their own use and for sharing with others.
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+The personal chatbots, dubbed “GPTs,” are the latest move by the company to democratize its artificial intelligence technology, a year after ChatGPT opened the eyes of the industry and the world to the potential of large language models and increasingly sophisticated forms of generative AI.

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+Sam Altman, the Silicon Valley CEO behind the artificial intelligence-powered chatbots ChatGPT and GPT-4, has been abruptly fired by his company’s board of directors in a major shakeup for the tech industry.
+
+Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Friday that its board of directors decided on the “leadership transition” after losing confidence in Altman’s ability to lead the company.
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+“Mr Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in a statement on its blog.
+
+The board of directors said they were grateful for Altman’s contributions but had decided that “new leadership is necessary as we move forward”.
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+The company or its board did not elaborate on the reason for Altman’s departure.
+
+Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati was appointed interim CEO until a more permanent replacement is found to lead the $90bn company.
+
+Altman represented the company just this week in a panel discussion at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in San Francisco.
+
+In a post on X, formerly Twitter, shortly after the announcement, Altman said he “loved working with such talented people” and that leading the company had been “transformative to me personally”.
+
+Altman said in later posts on X that his firing was a “weird experience” and “sorta like reading your own eulogy while you’re still alive,” and that “if I start going off, the OpenAI board should go after me for the full value of my shares.”
+
+Unlike other tech founders such as Mark Zuckerberg, Altman did not have equity in OpenAI and could be fired at any time, the news site Semafor reported earlier this year.
+
+Altman’s surprise departure prompted a flurry of reactions across the tech sector.
+
+Former Google CEO Eric Shmidt on X described Altman as a “hero” who had “changed our collective world forever”.
+
+OpenAI president Greg Brockman, who co-founded the start-up with Altman and Elon Musk, announced shortly after the news broke that he would also be leaving the company.
+“We’ve been through tough and great times together, accomplishing much despite the reasons it should have been impossible, but based on today’s news, I quit,” he said on X.
+
+Three senior researchers also resigned on Friday night, the tech news site The Information reported, citing several people with knowledge of the situation.
+
+Altman became a household name following last year’s release of ChatGPT, which captivated and alarmed the public in equal measure with its ability to provide lengthy and human-like – but not always accurate – answers to user queries.
+In September, New York Magazine published a profile comparing the tech entrepreneur to J Robert Oppenheimer – known as the father of the atomic bomb – and Time Magazine included him on its list of the 100 most influential people in AI in 2023.

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+Sam Altman published a statement less than two hours after he was fired from his position as OpenAI CEO.
+
+On X, formerly known as Twitter, Altman posted, "i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later."
+
+It's unclear what Altman meant by "more to say" or exactly when "later" is, but the enigmatic statement suggests he'll be sharing his side of the story.
+
+Altman's post comes after OpenAI's board of directors announced his firing due to not being "consistently candid" with the board. "The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," the announcement said.
+
+Speculation as to why Altman was abruptly fired are already running rampant. It comes as a surprise to most people since Altman was publicly representing the company up until yesterday, as veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher pointed out.
+
+Last week, OpenAI held its very first developer conference where Altman delivered the keynote. OpenAI had some big announcements to share that included the launch of GPT-4 Turbo and custom GPTs. However, just a few days later, a DDoS attack caused a major ChatGPT outage. Altman initially blamed it on increased demand from the deployment of new features.
+
+It's been a tumultuous few weeks for OpenAI and Altman's sudden ousting adds the confusion.
+
+Why did Sam Altman get fired?
+The board's decision came after a "deliberative review process" which found that Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities." Specifics of Altman's alleged nebulousness are not clear.
+
+Altman has overseen ChatGPT's meteoric success; it's one of the fastest growing platforms of all time and a pioneer in consumer-facing generative AI. In his capacity as CEO, Altman testified before Congress, calling for the regulation of AI. At the time, however, some perceived the move to be a self-serving strategy to advance OpenAI's agenda.
+
+Last week, ChatGPT experienced a major outage that shut down the platform for several hours. Altman initially said this was due to increased demand following the deployment of new features. However, OpenAI later reported the outage was due to a DDoS attack.
+
+The board, which oversees OpenAI (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit), consists of OpenAI's chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, as well as Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner.
+
+Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, will be stepping down as chairman of the board "as part of this transition," the announcement said.
+
+OpenAI's former CEO opens up about firing
+On Friday, Altman posted a statement on X reflecting on his tenure as OpenAI's CEO.
+
+"I loved my time at OpenAI. It was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. Most of all I loved working with such talented people."
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+Altman added that he will have more to say about what's next for him at a later time.

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+ChatGPT-maker Open AI said Friday it has pushed out its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman after a review found he was "not consistently candid in his communications" with the board of directors.
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+"The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," the artificial intelligence company said in a statement.
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+In the year since Altman catapulted ChatGPT to global fame, he has become Silicon Valley's sought-after voice on the promise and potential dangers of artificial intelligence and his sudden and mostly unexplained exit brought uncertainty to the industry's future.
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+Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, will take over as interim CEO effective immediately, the company said, while it searches for a permanent replacement.
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+The announcement also said another OpenAI co-founder and top executive, Greg Brockman, the board's chairman, would be stepping down from that role but remain at the company, where he serves as president. But later on X, formerly Twitter, Brockman wrote, "based on today's news, i quit."
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+OpenAI declined to answer questions on what Altman's alleged lack of candor was about. The statement said his behavior was hindering the board's ability to exercise its responsibilities.
+
+Altman posted Friday on X: "i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what's next later."
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+The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement that allows OpenAI access to part of AP's text archives.
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+Altman helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit research laboratory in 2015. But it was ChatGPT's explosion into public consciousness that thrust Altman into the spotlight as a face of generative AI — technology that can produce novel imagery, passages of text and other media. On a world tour this year, he was mobbed by a crowd of adoring fans at an event in London.
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+He's sat with multiple heads of state to discuss AI's potential and perils. Just Thursday, he took part in a CEO summit at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco, where OpenAI is based.
+
+He predicted AI will prove to be "the greatest leap forward of any of the big technological revolutions we've had so far." He also acknowledged the need for guardrails, calling attention to the existential dangers future AI could pose.
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+Some computer scientists have criticized that focus on far-off risks as distracting from the real-world limitations and harms of current AI products. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into whether OpenAI violated consumer protection laws by scraping public data and publishing false information through its chatbot.
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+The company said its board consists of OpenAI's chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, and three non-employees: Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, tech entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner of the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
+
+OpenAI's key business partner, Microsoft, which has invested billions of dollars into the startup and helped provide the computing power to run its AI systems, said that the transition won't affect its relationship.
+
+"We have a long-term partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft remains committed to Mira and their team as we bring this next era of AI to our customers," said an emailed Microsoft statement.
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+While not trained as an AI engineer, Altman, now 38, has been seen as a Silicon Valley wunderkind since his early 20s. He was recruited in 2014 to take lead of the startup incubator YCombinator.
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+"Sam is one of the smartest people I know, and understands startups better than perhaps anyone I know, including myself," read YCombinator co-founder Paul Graham's 2014 announcement that Altman would become its president. Graham said at the time that Altman was "one of those rare people who manage to be both fearsomely effective and yet fundamentally benevolent."
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+OpenAI started out as a nonprofit when it launched with financial backing from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and others. Its stated aims were to "advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."
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+That changed in 2018 when it incorporated a for-profit business Open AI LP, and shifted nearly all its staff into the business, not long after releasing its first generation of the GPT large language model for mimicking human writing.
+
+Around the same time, Musk, who had co-chaired its board with Altman, resigned from the board in a move that OpenAI said would eliminate a "potential future conflict for Elon" due to Tesla's work on building self-driving systems.
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+While OpenAI's board has preserved its nonprofit governance structure, the startup it oversees has increasingly sought to capitalize on its technology by tailoring its popular chatbot to business customers.
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+At its first developer conference last week, Altman was the main speaker showcasing a vision for a future of AI agents that could help people with a variety of tasks. Days later, he announced the company would have to pause new subscriptions to its premium version of ChatGPT because it had exceeded capacity.
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+Altman's exit "is indeed shocking as he has been the face of" generative AI technology, said Gartner analyst Arun Chandrasekaran.
+
+He said OpenAI still has a "deep bench of technical leaders" but its next executives will have to steer it through the challenges of scaling the business and meeting the expectations of regulators and society.
+
+Forrester analyst Rowan Curran said Altman's departure, "while sudden," does not likely reflect deeper business problems.
+
+"This seems to be a case of an executive transition that was about issues with the individual in question, and not with the underlying technology or business," Curran said.
+
+Altman has a number of possible next steps. Even while running OpenAI, he placed large bets on several other ambitious projects.
+
+Among them are Helion Energy, for developing fusion reactors that could produce prodigious amounts of energy from the hydrogen in seawater, and Retro Biosciences, which aims to add 10 years to the human lifespan using biotechnology. Altman also co-founded Worldcoin, a biometric and cryptocurrency project that's been scanning people's eyeballs with the goal of creating a vast digital identity and financial network.

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+Sam Altman, the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI who many considered to be the leader of the burgeoning artificial-intelligence revolution, was fired on Friday. The dismissal followed what the company said was a “deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.” As a result, “the board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” Soon after, OpenAI president and Altman-ally Greg Brockman — who the company also removed as chairman of the board — resigned, as did three senior OpenAI researchers.
+
+The upheaval shocked the tech world given what Altman, 38, had accomplished in a few short years. While tech giants such as Google have been working for years to developing artificial intelligence, OpenAI catapulted in front of them when it unveiled ChatGPT last November. The chatbot demonstrated abilities never before released to the general public — like being capable of writing a lot more like a human. Immediately gaining 100 million users, ChatGPT helped OpenAI raise billions of dollars, sent Google reeling, and put AI at the center of the tech industry. It also made Altman an overnight celebrity and he was happy to play the role, presenting himself as a visionary if slightly weary face of what AI might mean for humanity.
+
+OpenAI’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, will be interim CEO while the board searches for a successor. The company initially announced that co-founder Greg Brockman would step down as chairman of the board, but remain in his role as president of the company. Not long after, Brockman announced that he was quitting. He also tweeted out a timeline of what happened Friday, noting that the OpenAI board fired Altman minutes before announcing the leadership “transition”:
+
+There may have been other factors in Altman’s dismissal — which reportedly came as a big surprise to OpenAI employees.
+
+The Information reports that Sutskever faced blowback from employees during an all-hands meeting following Altman’s firing on Friday, and that he acknowledged how the move could be interpreted as a coup, though he didn’t see it that way.
+
+On Saturday morning, OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap sent a memo to employees letting them know that the company was still talking to the board to try to understand why it made its decision. “We can say definitively that the board’s decision was not made in response to malfeasance or anything related to our financial, business, safety, or security/privacy practices,” he wrote. “This was a breakdown in communication between Sam and the board.”

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+Sam Altman, the high-profile chief executive of OpenAI, who became the face of the tech industry’s artificial intelligence boom, was pushed out of the company by its board of directors, OpenAI said in a blog post on Friday afternoon.
+
+The move set off a reshuffling at OpenAI, a groundbreaking A.I. company and the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT. Mira Murati, previously OpenAI’s chief technology officer, was named interim chief executive officer, the company said. Hours later, Greg Brockman, the company’s president, said he was quitting.
+
+“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
+
+Leaving OpenAI is a stunning fall for Mr. Altman, 38, who over the last year had become one of the tech industry’s most prominent executives as well as one of its most fascinating characters. Last fall, OpenAI launched an industrywide A.I. frenzy when it released ChatGPT.
+
+It was not immediately clear what had led to the board’s decision beyond what its statement said. Mr. Altman could not be immediately reached for comment. In a post to X, formerly Twitter, he wrote: “i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later.”
+
+In a post to X Friday evening, Mr. Brockman said that he and Mr. Altman had no warning of the board’s decision. “Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” he wrote. “We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.”
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+Mr. Altman was asked to join a video meeting with the board at noon on Friday and was immediately fired, according to Mr. Brockman. Mr. Brockman said that even though he was the chairman of the board, he was not part of this board meeting.
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+He said that the board informed him of Mr. Altman’s ouster minutes later.  Around the same time, the board published a blog post.
+
+A longtime tech entrepreneur, Mr. Altman helped found OpenAI with the financial backing of Elon Musk in 2015. He steered the small San Francisco company into rare territory — a technology leader funded by billions of dollars from Microsoft and envied by Silicon Valley giants like Google and Meta, Facebook’s parent company.
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+Mr. Altman also became a spokesman for the tech industry’s shift toward A.I., testifying before Congress and charming lawmakers and regulators around the world. Many in the industry believe A.I. is the biggest technology shift in generations, and no one has done more to generate mainstream enthusiasm for it than Mr. Altman.
+
+On Thursday evening, Mr. Altman appeared at an event in Oakland, Calif., where he discussed the future of art and artists now that artificial intelligence can generate images, videos, sounds and other forms of art on its own. Giving no indication that he was leaving OpenAI, he repeatedly said he and the company would continue to work alongside artists and help to ensure their future would be bright.
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+Earlier in the day, he appeared at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit in San Francisco with Laurene Powell Jobs, who is the founder and president of the Emerson Collective, and executives from Meta and Google.
+
+Mr. Brockman, who helped found OpenAI alongside Mr. Altman, said in a post on X that he was quitting. The company said earlier in the day that he would step down as chairman of the board but remain as president, reporting to the chief executive.
+
+Reached by phone, Mr. Brockman declined to comment. From OpenAI’s earliest days, he had been instrumental in shaping both its mission and its day-to-day operations.
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+When OpenAI released ChatGPT last November, the chatbot attracted hundreds of millions of users, wowing people with the way it answered questions, wrote poetry and discussed almost any topic tossed its way.
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+After the chatbot’s success, the wider tech industry embraced what is called generative artificial intelligence — technologies that can generate text, images and other media on their own. The result of more than a decade of research inside companies like OpenAI and Google, these technologies are poised to remake everything from email programs to internet search engines to digital tutors.
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+OpenAI is in talks to close a new funding round that would value the company at more than $80 billion — nearly triple its valuation less than a year ago — and it is unclear what Mr. Altman’s departure will mean for those talks.
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+But his removal is a blow to Microsoft, which has invested $13 billion in OpenAI and has what amounts to a 49 percent stake in the company. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, introduced an expansive plan this year to use the technology developed at OpenAI in nearly all of Microsoft’s products, from the Bing search engine to its widely used business software. Mr. Altman joined him at a press event to announce the plans.
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+Microsoft said on Friday afternoon that it planned to continue to work closely with OpenAI. Mr. Nadella said in a statement that the company’s long-term agreement with OpenAI provided Microsoft “full access to everything we need to deliver on our innovation agenda and an exciting product road map.” He added that the company remained committed “to our partnership, and to Mira and the team.”
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+Microsoft’s stock price fell more than 1 percent in the last 30 minutes of trading, after Mr. Altman’s departure was announced.
+
+In a message to OpenAI employees viewed by The New York Times, Ms. Murati said that she had talked with Mr. Nadella and Microsoft’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, on Friday and that they remained supportive of OpenAI.
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+“We are now at a crucial juncture where our tools are being widely adopted, developers are actively building on our platforms and policymakers are deliberating on the best ways to regulate these systems,” she wrote. “It’s more important than ever that we stay focused, driven and true to our core values.”
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+OpenAI’s four-member board of directors is a mix of respected A.I. researchers, tech executives and A.I. policy experts, including Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and co-founder, and Adam D’Angelo, chief executive of the question-and-answer site Quora. The board members could not be immediately reached for comment.
+
+Current and former OpenAI employees were shocked by the news. As recently as Friday morning, they were discussing Mr. Altman as if he had a long future with the company. Researchers, entrepreneurs and investors outside the company were equally surprised, with many scrambling to determine why the OpenAI board had made its decision.
+
+Jack Altman, one of Mr. Altman’s younger brothers and the chief executive of the business software start-up Lattice, defended his sibling on X.
+
+“More important than being one of the most brilliant and impactful people our industry has ever had,” he wrote, “Sam is one of the most generous and caring people I know. I’ve never met someone who has supported and lifted up more people around them than him. Couldn’t be a prouder brother.”

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+The board of ChatGPT-maker Open AI said Friday it has pushed out its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman after a review found he was “not consistently candid in his communications” with the board.
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+“The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI,” the company said in a statement Friday.
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+It has appointed Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, to an interim CEO role effective immediately as it begins a search for a permanent replacement.
+
+A company spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to request for comment on what the alleged lack of candor was about. The statement said Altman’s behavior was hindering the board’s ability to exercise its responsibilities.
+
+Altman helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit research laboratory in 2015.
+
+But in the past year, he was thrust into the global spotlight as the face of OpenAI after ChatGPT exploded into public consciousness. On a world tour earlier this year, he was mobbed by a crowd of adoring fans at an event in London.
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+Just Thursday, he took part in a CEO summit at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco, where OpenAI is based.
+
+He predicted AI will prove to be “the greatest leap forward of any of the big technological revolutions we’ve had so far.” But he also acknowledged the need for guardrails to protect humanity from the existential threat posed by the quantum leaps being taking by computers.
+
+“I really think the world is going to rise to the occasion and everybody wants to do the right thing,” Altman said.

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+Sam Altman, often considered the face of the new wave of artificial intelligence — and an influential figure in the national AI policy debate — was removed from his role as CEO of OpenAI Friday.
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+Altman’s departure comes after OpenAI’s board lost confidence in him, according to a blog post from the company.
+
+“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” according to the post. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
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+Altman will be replaced by chief technology officer Mira Murati.
+
+Altman over the past several months has played an active role in shaping Washington’s response to AI, meeting personally with President Joe Biden and other CEOs, and testifying in a high-profile Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing in May.
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+He has pushed Congress to pass laws to mitigate the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence — and specifically, has urged Congress to impose licensing regimes on companies developing frontier AI models. In August, bipartisan Senate Judiciary members unveiled a legislative framework to establish an independent licensing regime for sophisticated general-purpose models.

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+Nov 17 (Reuters) - The board of the company behind ChatGPT on Friday fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman - to many, the human face of generative AI - sending shock waves across the tech industry.
+
+OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati will serve as interim CEO, the company said, adding that it will conduct a formal search for a permanent CEO.
+
+"Altman's departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities," OpenAI said in the blog without elaborating.
+
+Greg Brockman, OpenAI president and co-founder, who stepped down from the board as chairman as part of the management shuffle, quit the company, he announced on messaging platform X late on Friday. "Based on today's news, i quit," he wrote.
+
+The departures blindsided many employees who discovered the abrupt management change from an internal message and the company's public facing blog. It came as a surprise to Altman and Brockman as well, who learned the board's decision within minutes of the announcement, Brockman said.
+
+"We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened," he posted on X, formerly Twitter, adding, "We will be fine. Greater things coming soon."
+
+The now four-person board consists of three independent directors holding no equity in OpenAI and its Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever. The organization did not immediately answer a request for comment on Brockman's claims.
+
+Backed by billions of dollars from Microsoft (MSFT.O), which does not have a board seat in the non-profit governing the startup, OpenAI kicked off the generative AI craze last November by releasing ChatGPT. The chatbot became one of the world's fastest-growing software applications.
+
+Trained on reams of data, generative AI can create human-like content, helping users spin up term papers, complete science homework and even write entire novels. After ChatGPT's launch, regulators scrambled to catch up: the European Union revised its AI Act and the U.S. kicked off AI regulation efforts.
+
+Altman, who ran Y Combinator, is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He was the face of OpenAI and the wildly popular generative AI technology as he toured the world this year.
+
+Altman posted on X shortly after OpenAI published its blog: "i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later."
+
+Altman did not respond to requests for comment.
+
+Murati, who has worked for Tesla, joined OpenAI in 2018 and later became chief technology officer. She oversaw product launches including that of ChatGPT.
+
+At an emergency all-hands meeting on Friday afternoon after the announcement, Murati sought to calm employees and said OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft is stable and its backer's executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, continue to express confidence in the startup, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
+
+The Information previously reported details of the meeting.
+
+"Microsoft remains committed to Mira and their team as we bring this next era of AI to our customers," a spokesperson for the software maker told Reuters on Friday.
+
+In a statement published on Microsoft's website, Nadella said: "We have a long-term agreement with OpenAI... Together, we will continue to deliver the meaningful benefits of this technology to the world."
+
+EARTHQUAKE
+The shakeup is not the first at OpenAI, launched in 2015. Tesla CEO Elon Musk once was its co-chair, and in 2020 other executives departed, going on to found competitor Anthropic, which has claimed it has a greater focus on AI safety.
+
+Well wishers and critics piled onto digital forums as news of the latest shuffle spread.
+
+On X, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called Altman "a hero of mine," adding, "He built a company from nothing to $90 Billion in value, and changed our collective world forever. I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible."
+
+"This is a shocker and Altman was a key ingredient in the recipe for success of OpenAI," said Daniel Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities. "That said, we believe Microsoft and Nadella will exert more control at OpenAI going forward with Altman gone."
+
+The full impact of the OpenAI surprise will unfold over time, but its fundraising prospects were an immediate concern. Altman was considered a master fundraiser who managed to negotiate billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft as well as having led the company's tender offer transactions this year that fueled OpenAI's valuation from $29 billion to over $80 billion.
+
+"In the short term it will impair OpenAI's ability to raise more capital. In the intermediate term it will be a non-issue," said Thomas Hayes, chairman at hedge fund Great Hill Capital.
+
+Other analysts said Altman's departure, while disruptive, would not derail generative AI's popularity or OpenAI or Microsoft's competitive advantage.
+
+"The innovation created by OpenAI is bigger than any one or two people, and there is no reason to think this would cause OpenAI to cede its leadership position," said D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria. "If nothing else, Microsoft's stake and significant interest in OpenAI's progress ensure the appropriate leadership changes are being implemented."
+
+As late as Thursday evening, Altman showed no signs of concern at two public events. He joined colleagues in a panel on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in San Francisco, describing his commitment and vision for AI.
+
+Later he spoke at a Burning Man-related event in Oakland, California, engaging in an hour-long conversation on the topic of art and AI. Altman seemed relaxed and gave no indication anything was wrong, but left right after his talk was over at 7:30 p.m.
+
+The event organizer said at the event that Altman had another meeting to attend.

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+SAM ALTMAN, A major figure in Silicon Valley‘s burgeoning AI industry who earlier this year testified before Congress on the dangers of the technology, has been removed as CEO of OpenAI, according to a company statement. The surprise firing has set off a flurry of questions about why a startup currently positioned for a valuation of up to $90 billion would cut ties with its chief executive.
+
+Shortly after news of Altman’s ousting, the company’s president Greg Brockman, who earlier stepped down from the board, announced he was quitting. “[W]e’ve been through some tough & great times together, accomplishing so much despite all the reasons it should have been impossible,” he wrote in a message to the OpenAI team, adding “but based on today’s news, i quit.”
+
+In the press release, OpenAI’s board of directors indicated that Altman had not been truthful with them, leading to a breakdown of trust: “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the statement reads. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
+
+Altman confirmed the news in a tweet, writing that he “loved” his time at the company and “will have more to say about what’s next later,” signing off with a saluting emoji.
+
+Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, “effective immediately.” Murati led the development of ChatGPT, OpenAi’s chatbot, which that took the world by storm in late 2022.
+
+Altman was among the founders of OpenAI, formed in 2015 as a research nonprofit with funding from the likes of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Amazon Web Services. Altman and Musk served as the original board members; Musk left in 2018, with Altman becoming CEO the following year. He supervised the creation of a for-profit OpenAI subsidiary and a partnership with Microsoft, which invested $1 billion at the time.
+
+The company became more of a household name in the past year thanks to ChatGPT and DALL-E, a text-to-image model that allows users to generate digital art from written prompts — both saw widespread use and provoked debate across the internet. Microsoft committed to a further $10 billion investment in January. With OpenAI now a major AI firm that could even rattle a giant like Google, Altman was a leader of the latest computing revolution. Apart from sitting before the Senate Judiciary Committee in May, he joined other top tech executives to advise the White House on AI regulation.
+
+While some had kind words for Altman on the occasion of his departure from OpenAI — former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a tweet called him “a hero of mine” who “changed our collective world forever” — others felt vindicated in their view that Altman was never up to the high-profile position. Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto, a history of tech in California, reshared an August interview in which he said Altman was “doling out other people’s money […] despite him not doing anything successfully.”
+
+Another person of the opinion that Altman did not belong at the forefront of the AI industry is Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist and AI ethics pioneer profiled in the Rolling Stone feature “These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI” in August. “Altman’s outing is a recognition that these powerful companies need mature leadership grounded in the realities of a socio-technical world,” Chowdhury says. “If AI is truly to ‘serve humanity’ as OpenAI’s mission states, leadership must reflect a dedication to those goals.”
+
+Timnit Gebru, a computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and was interviewed for the same Rolling Stone article, is puzzled by the decision, though no more complimentary of Altman. “I’m not sure what he did that the board would fire him so publicly,” she says. Joy Buolamwini, a researcher of AI harms profiled in the feature with Gebru and Chowdhury, conversed with Altman in one of his last events as CEO. “Just ten days ago I was on stage with Sam discussing the future of AI and the need to prioritize the excoded, those who are harmed by AI systems,” she says, already looking toward the future of OpenAI and its competitors: “Mira and all leaders aiming to develop responsible and/or beneficial AI systems cannot ignore growing issues around consent, compensation, creative rights, biometric rights, and civil rights. We must advance the capacities to mitigate AI harms immediately.” 
+
+Speculation on the circumstances of Altman’s ouster continued to swirl on Friday afternoon, with guesses ranging from an ugly personal scandal to a hostile takeover or a clash between the CEO and his board over OpenAI’s future direction. Some wondered if Microsoft had any influence over the decision. (Musk, who has been critical of OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit model, argued in February that it is now “effectively controlled” by Microsoft.) The near-simultaneous news that OpenAI has registered the first federal lobbyists to represent its interests in Washington made interesting coincidence. And one observer jokingly tweeted that “Sam Altman was actually typing out all the ChatGPT responses himself and the board just found out.”
+
+But so far, no theory has been substantiated, leaving interested parties to mull the reasons for what appeared to be a rushed announcement before the close of markets — and its guarded language. “We are grateful for Sam’s many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI,” the company stated. “At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward.” 

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+Sam Altman, long the face of the generative AI boom in San Francisco and around the world as the chief executive of multibillion-dollar software startup OpenAI, was pushed out by the company’s board of directors Friday. In a statement, the company said “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
+
+The company’s announcement said the decision came after a review by the board “which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.”
+
+OpenAI is the inventor of the ChatGPT generative AI tool and has received significant investment from Microsoft. Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO “effective immediately,” the company said.
+
+Axios reported Microsoft found out about Altman’s ouster a minute before it was announced publicly.
+
+Altman posted on X, formerly Twitter, after the announcement, “i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later,” adding a saluting emoji.
+
+Altman posted later on Friday saying "if i start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares." Altman has claimed in the past that he has no financial stake in the company, including during an AI event in San Francisco earlier this year during which he was interviewed on stage.
+
+The announcement also said Greg Brockman would be stepping down as the company’s board chair but remain at the company, reporting to the interim CEO. But Brockman posted a statement on X just before 5 p.m. Friday that he would be leaving the company.
+
+In the post, which Brockman said he had also sent internally to OpenAI, he wrote: “i’m super proud of what we’ve all built together since starting in my apartment 8 years ago. we’ve been through tough and great times together, accomplishing so much despite all the reasons it should have been impossible.” But, he added, “based on today’s news, i quit.” Brockman extended his best wishes to the employees, saying “i continue to believe in the mission of creating safe AGI that benefits all humanity.”
+
+AGI stands for artificial general intelligence, a hypothetical AI agent with roughly the same mental and processing capacities as a human being, or beyond.
+
+Shortly before 9 p.m. on Friday, Brockman said on X that he and Altman were "shocked and saddened by what the board did today." Brockman wrote that Altman received a text from the company's chief scientist Ilya Sutskever Thursday night asking him to join a virtual meeting Friday at noon. Upon joining, the entire board minus Brockman was present and Sutskever told him he was being fired, Brockman wrote. 
+
+Brockman said he was alerted shortly afterwards of Altman's termination, was told he was being removed from the board but that he was vital to the company and would retain his role.
+
+OpenAI did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. The Information reported that internal disagreements amongst employees around AI safety took place before the ousting.
+
+Former OpenAI executives Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei previously left the company to found another AI company, Anthropic, which claims to be highly focused on building safe, so-called constitutional AI models.
+
+The surprise move came just a day after Altman appeared onstage at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s CEO Summit in San Francisco alongside other AI luminaries from Meta and Google, and painted a picture of a bright future for the technology and his company.
+
+“I think this will be the most transformative and beneficial technology yet invented,” Altman said onstage Thursday, calling the technology he and other AI entrepreneurs are pioneering the “greatest leap forward that we’ve had yet so far.” The panel was moderated by Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of the Emerson Collective, and also included Chris Cox, Meta’s chief product officer, and James Manyika, senior vice president of research, technology and society at Google.
+
+The announcement also comes after Altman’s keynote speech at the OpenAI’s developer day Nov. 6, where he announced plans for an app-store like model for programs powered by his company’s technologies. He was briefly joined onstage there by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
+
+In a statement Friday, Nadella said: “We have a long-term agreement with OpenAI with full access to everything we need to deliver on our innovation agenda and an exciting product roadmap; and remain committed to our partnership, and to Mira and the team. Together, we will continue to deliver the meaningful benefits of this technology to the world.”
+
+Stock in Microsoft, which has invested a reported $13 billion in OpenAI, dipped on the news of Altman’s departure before regaining some loses before the close of trading Friday.
+
+OpenAI’s corporate structure is set up such that the board of directors of a nonprofit entity called OpenAI Inc. oversees the company’s activities and has ultimate control over its direction and priorities. The company said Altman, 38, would also no longer serve on that board.
+
+Interim CEO Mira Murati, a member of OpenAI’s leadership team for five years, “already leads the company’s research, product, and safety functions,” the company statement said. “Given her long tenure and close engagement with all aspects of the company, including her experience in AI governance and policy, the board believes she is uniquely qualified for the role and anticipates a seamless transition while it conducts a formal search for a permanent CEO.”
+
+The OpenAI board of directors includes its chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, as well as independent directors Adam D’Angelo, the CEO of Quora, tech entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner of Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
+
+It was not clear how long that transition might take, or specifically what Altman may not have been candid about with the board.
+
+He became the CEO of OpenAI in 2020, previously serving as the president of startup accelerator Y Combinator for much of the previous decade. He was also very briefly the CEO of Reddit.
+
+Started in 2015, OpenAI received initial funding from Brockman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others. Musk later left the company and has since founded his own AI startup, xAI, with the help of former OpenAI engineers.

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+The OpenAI board of directors has fired CEO and co-founder Sam Altman, the company announced in a blog post Friday.
+The announcement comes just a day after Altman spoke on behalf of the company in a panel at the San Francisco-hosted Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference. Since OpenAI released ChatGPT last November under Altman's guidance, the longtime entrepreneur has become an ascendant tech leader, including meeting with lawmakers in Washington, going on media tours and generally evangelizing for artificial intelligence.
+
+OpenAI's board, according to the post, went through a "deliberative review process" before deciding to oust Altman over concerns that he was not "consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities." 
+
+The company originally said in its post that Greg Brockman, the OpenAI's president and co-founder, would be stepping down from the company’s board and staying at the firm. But Brockman posted on X on Friday afternoon, “based on today’s news, i quit.”
+
+Altman’s firing is effective immediately. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati will step in as interim CEO, the company said. 
+
+"The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," the post said of Altman. OpenAI's board includes Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, robotics entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, the Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner and OpenAI's chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever.
+
+"We are grateful for Sam’s many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI," the board said in a written statement included in the post. "At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward."
+
+Altman has often speculated about AI's far-off future, including in his Thursday appearance at APEC, per the San Francisco Standard. Now, he will have to watch the firm he founded in 2015 from the sidelines.
+

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+Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO who has become a global representative for the nascent AI industry, is leaving the company, OpenAI announced in a blog post.
+
+According to the post, Altman was let go after a review process by the company's board of directors that found that "he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities."
+
+"The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," the post states.
+
+Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer, will take over as interim CEO, effective immediately. Murati has been at the company for five years.
+
+"i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people," Altman wrote in a tweet after his ouster.
+
+"will have more to say about what's next later."
+
+OpenAI’s board of directors consists of its Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, entrepreneur Tasha McCauley and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner.
+
+Greg Brockman, the company's president, was initially meant to step down as chair of the board while keeping his other position with the company. However, Brockman posted a resignation letter from the company a few hours after news of Altman's departure broke.
+
+The announcement came one day after Altman made an appearance in front of CEOs and world leaders during the APEC Summit to tout the potential of AI.
+
+Who is Mira Murati?
+Mira Murati, 34, has been relatively unknown until recently. Born in Albania in 1988, Murati grew up during the Balkan country’s shift from a totalitarian communist system to a more democratic government. She left at 16 to pursue studies in engineering in the United States before working her way up the ranks of the tech industry.
+
+She joined OpenAI in 2018, where she took part in the development of ChatGPT and AI image generator DALL-E. Murati began working with the technology in earnest at Tesla, where she helped to build Autopilot, the company’s autonomous driving assistance software.
+
+In an interview last month with Fortune, she said about her work in AI, “I thought it would definitely be the most important set of technologies that humanity has ever built. So I wanted to be a part of that.”
+
+As chief technology officer at the firm, she has attracted media attention in recent months because of her stance on the ethics of AI.
+
+Murati said he believes that artificial intelligence can have a positive impact on people's lives, in areas from climate change to health. She recently joined the board of directors of Unlearn.AI, a startup specializing in the development of machine learning methods that can diagnose diseases and accelerate their treatment.
+
+"There are ... a ton of questions around societal impact, and there are a lot of ethical and philosophical questions that we need to consider," Murati told Time earlier this year. "And it's important that we bring in different voices, like philosophers, social scientists, artists and people from the humanities."

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+Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.
+
+“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its blog post. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
+
+Chief technology officer Mira Murati will be the interim CEO, effective immediately. The company will be conducting a search for a permanent CEO successor. When contacted by The Verge, OpenAI’s communications department declined to comment beyond the blog post. Employees at OpenAI found out about the news when it was announced publicly, according to multiple sources.
+
+“I loved my time at OpenAI,” Altman said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “It was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit.” In a follow-up post, he described the experience of his firing as “sorta like reading your own eulogy while you’re still alive.”
+OpenAI’s announcement also said that co-founder and president Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board but remain at the company. Hours after it was published, Brockman posted to X that he had quit “based on today’s news.”
+
+Later, in another post on X, Brockman said he and Altman were both notified of their removal from the board on Friday by OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who is also a board member. “Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” Brockman wrote.
+
+This is an extremely sudden turn of events. Altman has been the face of OpenAI, which kick-started the current AI arms race with last year’s hugely popular release of ChatGPT. Just last week, Altman led the keynote at the company’s first-ever DevDay conference, where it announced a suite of major new updates to compete with other big tech companies like Microsoft and Google. More recently, Altman spoke at Thursday’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference.
+
+Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, tells The Verge it will continue to partner with the company. “We have a long-term partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft remains committed to Mira and their team as we bring this next era of AI to our customers,” according to a statement sent by Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a similar statement on X.
+
+Altman has reportedly talked with Jony Ive, Apple’s former chief design officer, about making the “iPhone of artificial intelligence,” though Altman downplayed those rumors at a recent Wall Street Journal conference. He’s also the biggest shareholder in Humane, which just launched orders for its Humane AI Pin.
+
+Altman is a co-founder of OpenAI and initially served as a co-chair of the company alongside Elon Musk. Musk left in 2018 to avoid a conflict of interest with Tesla. He has since founded his own AI company, xAI.
+
+Unlike traditional private company boards, OpenAI’s board consists mostly of outsiders. After Altman and Brockman’s departures, its remaining board members are the company’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, the former CEO of GeoSim Systems, and Helen Toner, the director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.

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+SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who has emerged as the face of the artificial intelligence revolution, was ousted Friday after the board said it had lost confidence in his ability to lead the company, which built the pioneering AI chatbot ChatGPT.
+Altman’s ouster, which is effective immediately, follows “a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the board said in a blog post Friday.
+
+Altman’s pursuit of profits and his growing ambitions to build a world-spanning consumer business triggered concerns among some OpenAI employees that the company had abandoned its founding principles to be a counterweight to Big Tech, according to a person familiar with internal discussions at the company, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.
+
+Greg Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI who had been serving as chairman of the board, said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that he was also removed from the board as part of what he described as a surprise move against him and Altman by other members of the board.
+
+Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati will serve as interim CEO and a search is underway to identify a permanent successor, the blog post said.
+
+Altman’s sudden departure sent shock waves through the technology industry and the halls of government, where he had become a familiar presence in debates over the regulation of AI. His rise and apparent fall from tech’s top rung is one of the fastest in Silicon Valley history. In less than a year, he went from being Bay Area famous as a failed start-up founder who reinvented himself as a popular investor in small companies to becoming one of the most influential business leaders in the world. Journalists, politicians, tech investors and Fortune 500 CEOs alike had been clamoring for his attention.
+
+Many in the technology world credited him with infusing new energy and a sense of possibility into a beleaguered sector that has been dominated by tech giants like Google and Amazon for more than a decade. Altman was clearly hoping to enter the league of tech titans such as billionaire Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and even the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
+
+“I loved my time at OpenAI. It was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit,” Altman wrote Friday in a post on X. “Most of all I loved working with such talented people. Will have more to say about what’s next later.”
+
+In his post on X, Brockman said he and Altman were “shocked and saddened by what the board did today.” He said that Altman received a text from board member and OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever on Thursday evening, inviting him to a virtual meeting on Friday. At that meeting, Altman was fired, Brockman said. Brockman, who also held the title of president of OpenAI, soon got an invite to a meeting where he was also told he was being removed from the board. He quit in response.
+
+A spokesperson for OpenAI declined to comment beyond the blog post, and attempts to reach Altman for comment were unsuccessful.
+
+Altman’s departure was akin to toppling the heir apparent of generative AI. Group chats of tech investors and workers lit up across San Francisco, as everyone expressed their shock and speculated on why the board decided to remove him. In conversations with more than a dozen AI industry executives and investors, all of them expressed confusion and surprise.
+
+As recently as Thursday, Altman was acting the CEO part, speaking onstage at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO summit in San Francisco. Last week, he presented a new road map for OpenAI to big applause from hundreds of developers at the company’s first major conference.
+
+Altman’s ambitions were on clear display as he announced an app-store-like marketplace where people could make their own versions of ChatGPT, and get a share of revenue from the company.
+
+Though Altman was one of OpenAI’s founders, he has said he does not own any shares of the company. While CEO of OpenAI, Altman continued to make investments in other companies such as nuclear fusion company Helion and AI hardware start-up Humane. He has made dozens of personal investments in start-ups over the years, including 12 in 2023 alone, according to venture capital data firm PitchBook.
+
+Microsoft, which is OpenAI’s biggest investor, said its partnership with the company wouldn’t be affected by Altman’s departure. But a person familiar with the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal information, said Microsoft heard about the news just minutes before the blog post went out. Microsoft’s stock fell 1.7 percent, erasing billions from its market capitalization.
+
+“We have a long-term partnership with OpenAI, and Microsoft remains committed to Mira and their team as we bring this next era of AI to our customers,” Microsoft spokesman Heather Weitnauer said.
+
+The wording of the blog post and the confidence that Microsoft has shown in the company in recent weeks suggests that Altman’s departure is related to him, rather than problems with the broader business, said Rowan Curran, an AI industry analyst with research firm Forrester.
+
+“I see this as a CEO change at a large technology company, but I don’t see this at this point as a fundamental change in OpenAI’s approach, their direction, their technology,” Curran said.
+
+Launched as a nonprofit in 2015, OpenAI was created to keep advanced artificial intelligence out of the hands of monopolistic corporations and foreign governments. But since accepting a major investment from Microsoft in 2019, the company has transitioned into a “capped profit” structure that limits how much return backers can make on their investment. OpenAI often says it is still pursuing its original goal of building AI that “benefits all of humanity.” But its path forward lately looks more like business as usual.
+
+As OpenAI took on more of a public presence in May, around the time of Altman’s appearance before Congress, the company began a hiring spree, poaching executives from Meta, Apple and Amazon Web Services. Around the same time, Altman began a tour around the globe visiting heads of state and developers in dozens of cities, including Tel Aviv and Doha, Qatar, an even more ambitious stage than Zuckerberg’s 2017 tour of America.
+
+After the announcement, some tech leaders publicly posted about their admiration of Altman, speculating on what his next moves would be.
+
+“Sam Altman is a hero of mine. He built a company from nothing to $90 billion in value, and changed our collective world forever,” former Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote on X.
+
+Brockman, in his Friday evening post expressing his shock at the OpenAI board’s moves, thanked people for their support.
+
+“Please don’t spend any time being concerned. We will be fine. Greater things coming soon,” he said.

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+SAM ALTMAN, WHO as CEO of OpenAI gave the world ChatGPT and became one of the most influential people in technology, has departed the company after losing the confidence of its board.
+
+Altman, who had been at the company since cofounding it in 2015, was told he was fired by OpenAI board member and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever minutes before a public announcement by the board, company president Greg Brockman said in a post on X.
+
+The board's announcement said that a review of Altman's conduct “concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.” Mira Murati, previously OpenAI’s chief technology officer, was appointed interim CEO while OpenAI searches for a full-time replacement, the board said.
+
+OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Brockman's post and declined to comment on the board's announcement. Altman did not respond to a request for comment.
+
+The announcement said that Greg Brockman, who cofounded OpenAI with Altman alongside leading names in AI and technology including Elon Musk, would also step down from his role as chair of the company’s board.
+
+No reason was given for Brockman’s change in position but he announced that he had resigned from the company several hours after the company's statement. He shared an email sent to OpenAI staff on X. “I’m super proud of what we’ve all built since starting in my apartment 8 years ago," the email said. "We’ve been through tough and great times together, accomplishing so much despite all the reasons it should have been impossible. But based on today’s news, I quit.”
+
+Later on Friday, Brockman posted on X that he and Altman were “shocked and saddened by what the board did today.” His post claimed that Altman was told he was being fired by fellow OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, at noon that day. Brockman was informed separately that he was being removed from the board soon after, his post said. “We will be fine. Greater things coming soon,” Brockman’s post concluded.
+
+An investor in OpenAI who spoke anonymously because they did not have full details of the board's concerns said its statement suggested the gravity of Altman's alleged lack of candor was significant and it's possible the changeover could lead to employees heading elsewhere. OpenAI and AI rivals such as Google and Meta have intensified their competition for AI talent since ChatGPT's debut last year.
+
+The surprising capabilities of ChatGPT, such as solving complex puzzles and handling questions that appear to require human-like reasoning, stunned AI researchers, amazed the public, and triggered an arms race among big tech companies to build more powerful AI. The bot’s success turned Altman into a tech celebrity, consulted by world leaders on the future path of AI technology.
+
+Altman appeared yesterday at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, telling hundreds of business and government leaders that AI systems could solve humanity's most-pressing problems if their development were pursued responsibly.
+
+“We're on a path to self-destruction as a species right now,” he said, sitting alongside executives from Meta and Google. “We need new technology if we want to flourish for tens, hundreds of thousands, and millions of years more.”
+
+Altman acknowledged that success wasn’t certain, but he expressed confidence that AI would ultimately be beneficial, describing the technology as his life's work, from childhood. “This will be the most transformative and beneficial technology humanity has yet invented,” he said.
+
+OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit focused on safely developing AI more intelligent than humans. It was funded by Musk and others, including Peter Thiel and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman.
+
+OpenAI became a for-profit company in 2019, as the cost of building and training advanced AI became challenging. It struck a partnership with Microsoft in 2019 that saw the software giant invest a billion dollars and provide cloud computing power for training OpenAI’s algorithms. This year Microsoft agreed to invest a further $10 billion into OpenAI.
+
+OpenAI developed a number of cutting-edge AI projects in the years after its creation, but the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 quickly turned the company into one of the most important businesses on earth.

controller/headlinesController.py

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+from model.headline import Headline, HeadlineResponse
+from model.bulletpoint import BulletPoint
+import json
+
+class HeadlinesController:
+    def __init__(self):
+        headline = self.parseJsonOutput()
+        self.headlines = [headline]
+
+    def parseJsonOutput(self):
+        with open('controller/output.json', 'r') as file:
+            parsed_data = json.load(file)
+        
+        bulletpoints = []
+        for i in range(len(parsed_data)):
+            text = parsed_data[i]["text"]
+            publishers = parsed_data[i]["publishers"]
+            bulletpoint = BulletPoint(i, text, publishers)
+            bulletpoints.append(bulletpoint)
+        
+        return Headline(1, "Sam Altman & OpenAI News", bulletpoints)
+
+    
+    def getHeadlines(self) -> HeadlineResponse:
+        headlineResponse = HeadlineResponse(self.headlines)
+        return headlineResponse
+    
+    def getHeadlineById(self, id) -> Headline:
+        for headline in self.headlines:
+            if int(headline.id) == int(id):
+                return headline
+            
+        

controller/newsBroApi.py

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+from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function
+import json
+import os
+import nltk
+import tensorflow as tf
+import tensorflow_hub as hub
+from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
+from sumy.parsers.plaintext import PlaintextParser
+from sumy.nlp.tokenizers import Tokenizer
+from sumy.summarizers.lex_rank import LexRankSummarizer
+from transformers import pipeline
+from spacy.lang.en import English
+nltk.download('punkt')
+
+MAX_TOKENS = 880
+MIN_WORD_PER_SENTENCE = 15
+SUMMARY_MAX_LENGTH = 240
+SUMMARY_MIN_LENGTH = 30
+
+embed = hub.load("https://tfhub.dev/google/universal-sentence-encoder/4")
+summarizer = pipeline("summarization", model="facebook/bart-large-cnn")
+
+class Bullet:
+    text = ""
+    publisher = "NewsBroInc."
+    def __init__(self, text, publisher):
+        self.text = text
+        self.publisher = publisher
+    def __str__(self):
+        return f"""{self.publisher}: {self.text}"""
+
+class Summary:
+    text = ""
+    publisher = "NewsBroInc."
+    def __init__(self, text, publisher):
+        self.text = text
+        self.publisher = publisher
+
+
+def getNumTokens(article):
+    return len(word_tokenize(article))
+
+def lexRank(article, sentenceCount):
+    # Create a parser for the article text
+    parser = PlaintextParser.from_string(article, Tokenizer("english"))
+
+    # Create a LexRank summarizer
+    summarizer = LexRankSummarizer()
+
+    # Get the summary
+    summary = summarizer(parser.document, sentenceCount)
+
+    summaryText = []
+    for sentence in summary:
+        summaryText.append(str(sentence))
+    return " ".join(summaryText)
+
+
+def bart(article, maxLength=SUMMARY_MAX_LENGTH, minLength=SUMMARY_MIN_LENGTH):
+    return summarizer(article, max_length=maxLength, min_length=minLength, do_sample=False)
+
+
+def getArticles():
+    folder_path = "articles"
+
+    # Get the list of all files in the specified folder
+    files = [f for f in os.listdir(folder_path) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(folder_path, f))]
+
+    # Filter out only the txt files
+    txt_files = [f for f in files if f.endswith(".txt")]
+
+    # Create a dictionary to store the content of each text file
+    file_contents = {}
+
+    # Loop through each txt file and read its content
+    for txt_file in txt_files:
+        file_path = os.path.join(folder_path, txt_file)
+        with open(file_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
+            content = file.read()
+            publisher = txt_file[:-4]
+            file_contents[publisher] = content
+
+    return file_contents
+
+def summarizeArticle(article):
+    numTokens = getNumTokens(article)
+    lexRankedArticle = article
+    i = 0
+    while numTokens > MAX_TOKENS:
+        numSentences = MAX_TOKENS / (MIN_WORD_PER_SENTENCE + i)
+        lexRankedArticle = lexRank(article, numSentences)
+        numTokens = getNumTokens(lexRankedArticle)
+        i += 1
+    return bart(lexRankedArticle)
+    
+def getSummarizedArticles():
+    articles = getArticles()
+    summaries = []
+    for article in articles:
+        cur = Summary(summarizeArticle(articles[article])[0]['summary_text'], article)
+        summaries.append(cur)
+    return summaries
+
+def areBulletsSimilar(sentence1, sentence2):
+
+    embeddings1 = embed([sentence1])
+    embeddings2 = embed([sentence2])
+
+    similarity = tf.reduce_sum(tf.multiply(embeddings1, embeddings2)).numpy()
+
+    # print(similarity)
+    return similarity > 0.5
+
+def getSentencesFromRawText(input_text):
+    # Load the English NLP model from spacy
+    nlp = English()
+
+    # Process the text using spacy
+    doc = nlp(input_text)
+    nlp.add_pipe('sentencizer')
+
+    doc = nlp(input_text)
+    sentences = [sent.text.strip() for sent in doc.sents]
+
+    return sentences
+    
+def getAllBullets(summaries):
+    allBullets = []
+    for summary in summaries:
+        publisher = summary.publisher
+        curBullets = getSentencesFromRawText(summary.text)
+        for bulletText in curBullets:
+            allBullets.append(Bullet(bulletText, publisher)) 
+    return allBullets
+
+
+def getFinalClusters(allBullets):
+    output = [[allBullets[0]]]
+    for i in range(1, len(allBullets)):
+        cur = allBullets[i]
+        foundSimilarInstance = False
+        for i in range (len(output)):
+            if areBulletsSimilar(cur.text, output[i][0].text):
+                foundSimilarInstance = True
+                output[i].append(cur)
+                break
+        if foundSimilarInstance == False:
+            output.append([cur])
+
+    return output
+
+def getFinalOutput(clusters):
+    sortedList = sorted(clusters, key=len)
+    sortedList.reverse()
+    return sortedList[:5]
+
+def getData():
+    allSummaries = getSummarizedArticles()
+    allBullets =  getAllBullets(allSummaries)
+    clusters = getFinalClusters(allBullets)
+    finalOutput = (getFinalOutput(clusters))
+    data = []
+    for element in finalOutput:
+        publishers = []
+        for subElement in element:
+            publishers.append(subElement.publisher)
+        headline = {
+            'score' : f"""{round((len(set(publishers)) / 31) * 100, 1)}%""",
+            'text' : element[0].text,
+            'publishers' : list(set(publishers)),
+        }
+        data.append(headline)
+    return data
+
+def sendData():
+    data = getData()
+    jsonString = json.dumps(data, indent=2)
+    print(jsonString)
+
+
+
+    
+    file_name = 'output.json'
+    with open(file_name, 'w') as json_file:
+        json.dump(data, json_file, indent=2)
+
+sendData()
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+    

controller/output.json

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+[
+  {
+    "score": "90.3%",
+    "text": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has left the company.",
+    "publishers": [
+      "arstechnica",
+      "pbs",
+      "foxnews",
+      "washingtonpost",
+      "npr",
+      "crunchbase",
+      "nytimes",
+      "geekwire",
+      "sfgate",
+      "politico",
+      "axios",
+      "theverge",
+      "nymag",
+      "jazeera",
+      "reuters",
+      "wired",
+      "mashable",
+      "rollingstone",
+      "barrons",
+      "bbc",
+      "cnn",
+      "dw",
+      "computerworld",
+      "sfchronicle",
+      "sfstandard",
+      "dailybeast",
+      "businessinsider",
+      "forbes"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "score": "45.2%",
+    "text": "The company says he was not \"consistently candid in his communications with the board\" President Greg Brockman said he had decided to leave the company, as well.",
+    "publishers": [
+      "nymag",
+      "crunchbase",
+      "sfstandard",
+      "geekwire",
+      "rollingstone",
+      "bbc",
+      "barrons",
+      "businessinsider",
+      "dailybeast",
+      "pbs",
+      "france24",
+      "foxnews",
+      "npr",
+      "forbes"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "score": "29.0%",
+    "text": "OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati will serve as interim CEO.",
+    "publishers": [
+      "reuters",
+      "geekwire",
+      "sfgate",
+      "dailybeast",
+      "dw",
+      "pbs",
+      "theverge",
+      "nymag",
+      "npr"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "score": "9.7%",
+    "text": "Altman is considered the face of the new wave of artificial intelligence.",
+    "publishers": [
+      "bloomberg",
+      "politico",
+      "france24"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "score": "6.5%",
+    "text": "Greg Brockman, who cofounded OpenAI with Altman, will also step down from his role as chair of the company\u2019s board.",
+    "publishers": [
+      "computerworld",
+      "wired"
+    ]
+  }
+]

controller/test.py

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+
+
+def parseFile():
+    # Open a file in read mode ('r')
+    with open('data.txt', 'r') as file:
+        # Read the entire content of the file into a string
+        file_content = file.read()
+
+    # Print or use the file content as needed
+    return(file_content)
+
+fileContent = parseFile()
+fileContent = fileContent.split(";")
+print(fileContent)
+output = []
+for bullet in fileContent:
+    text = bullet.split("text:")[0].split("score:")[0]
+    print(text)

model/bulletpoint.py

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+class BulletPoint:
+    def __init__(self, id: int, value: str, sources: [str]):
+        self.id = id
+        self.value = value
+        self.sources = sources
+    
+    def serialize(self):
+        return {
+            "id": self.id,
+            "value": self.value,
+            "sources": self.sources
+        }

model/headline.py

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+import json
+from model.bulletpoint import BulletPoint
+
+
+class Headline:
+    def __init__(self, id: int, title: str, bulletpoints: [BulletPoint]):
+        self.id = id
+        self.title = title
+        self.bulletpoints = bulletpoints
+
+    def serialize(self):
+        return {
+            "id": self.id,
+            "title": self.title,
+            "bulletpoints": [bulletpoint.serialize() for bulletpoint in self.bulletpoints]
+        }
+
+
+class HeadlineResponse:
+    def __init__(self, headlines: [Headline]):
+        self.headlines = headlines
+
+    def serialize(self):
+        return {
+            "headlines": [headline.serialize() for headline in self.headlines]
+        }