A dramatic, weekend-long board of directors intervention briefly ousted CEO Sam Altman from OpenAI, triggering a near-total employee mutiny and heavy geopolitical panic across investors like Microsoft. The rapid reinstatement of Altman resulted in a total restructuring of the company’s non-profit board, exposing the intense internal friction between rapid corporate commercialization and safety-first alignment philosophies.
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