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OpenAI restores Sam Altman and replaces its initial board

OpenAI returned Sam Altman as CEO and installed Bret Taylor, Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo as a new initial board after employee and investor pressure reversed the prior board's removal decision.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM61confidence 97/100

Why it moved the index

Rapid reversal of the nonprofit board's chief-executive decision under commercial and workforce pressure demonstrated weakness in a prominent frontier lab's control structure.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 61 · confidence 97

    New November 2023 finalized frontier-company governance reversal.

    12 Aug 2026

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