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OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman has been reinstated to the firm’s board of directors following an outside investigation into the turmoil that led the company to abruptly fire and rehire him in November.OpenAI said the investigation by the law firm WilmerHale concluded that Altman’s ouster had been a “consequence of a breakdown in the relationship and loss of trust” between Altman and the prior board and that the CEO’s conduct “did not mandate removal”.For more than three months, OpenAI said little about what led its…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will return to the ChatGPT-maker's board along with three new directors, the company said on Friday. Below is a timeline of the events in a tumultuous few months for the artificial intelligence company. Date Event Nov. 17, OpenAI board fires CEO Sam Altman and 2023 President Greg Brockman quits. Mira Murati named as interim CEO Nov. 18, Altman's firing was over a "breakdown in 2023 communication between Sam and the board," and not "malfeasance", COO Brad Lightcap says in an internal memo Early…

Rocket maker SpaceX on Tuesday will appear before a U.S. labor board judge to face claims that it fired eight engineers for criticizing CEO Elon Musk and accusing him of sexist conduct in a letter to company executives.The case before National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Sharon Steckler in Los Angeles prompted SpaceX to file a lawsuit in January seeking to block it from going forward by claiming the board’s in-house enforcement proceedings violate the U.S. Constitution.The NLRB’s general counsel, which…

Breaking more than two years of silence, David Halls, the assistant director of the western movie “Rust,” described in vivid detail witnessing the fatal shooting by Alec Baldwin of the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins.On Oct. 21, 2021, Baldwin, the movie’s star, and others were preparing for a scene on the New Mexico set. Baldwin was sitting on a pew in a rustic church, slowly pulling his single-action Colt .45 revolver from his leather shoulder holster and pointing it toward the camera. Baldwin’s character was…

The stand-up comedian Shane Gillis — famously hired and fired from “Saturday Night Live” in 2019 when racist slurs he used on a podcast resurfaced — guest hosted the show, proving that longtime producer Lorne Michaels is still willing to court controversy if it means people will tune in to see potential fireworks. But the fireworks were pretty muted and relegated only to the monologue that Gillis delivered, in which he acknowledged the firing sheepishly, but then proceeded to walk a comedic tightrope in the rest of his…

Comic Shane Gillis debuted as Saturday Night Live host by first joking about his extremely brief stint on the late night show back in 2019 that ended after controversial comments of his from the year prior resurfaced. “Yeah. I’m here,” Gillis began his monologue. “Most of you probably have no idea who I am. I was actually fired from this show awhile ago. But, you know, don’t look that up! Please, if you don’t know who I am, please don’t Google that. It’s fine, don’t even worry about it.” In September 2019,…

Byju Raveendran, the founder of eponymous edtech group Byju’s, told employees on Saturday that he continues to remain the chief executive of the startup and that rumors of his firing have been “greatly exaggerated,” a day after a shareholder group voted to remove him at an emergency general meeting. In a 758-word letter, content of which was reviewed by TechCrunch, Raveendran claimed that the shareholders violated several “essential” local rules. The shareholder group, which included Prosus…

Have you suffered an “involuntary career event” recently? Perhaps you were a casualty of “corporate outplacing,” the unfortunate, yet ostensibly necessary result of your company “rightsizing.” Managers are running out of ways to say you no longer have a job. Layoffs in the first month of 2024 have left tens of thousands without jobs, with the tech industry alone cutting 32,000 roles. The way the bad news is delivered is more important than ever, as companies fear being canceled on social media after a poorly executed…

A developer on the frontline of the infamous and game-changing firing of Call Of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella from Infinity Ward in 2009 has revealed what happened next. After creating the original Call Of Duty in 2003 and taking it to new heights with Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007, both West and Zampella were abruptly fired from Infinity Ward by parent company Activision in 2009. The pair were reportedly let go for “insubordination” and went on to set up Respawn Entertainment with the backing of…