Before Altman's Ouster, OpenAI's Board Was Divided and Feuding, NYT Reports
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-09-06
A New York Times report by Cade Metz, Tripp Mickle and Mike Isaac details the year-long feud inside OpenAI's board before Sam Altman's brief ouster:
- Tensions escalated as ChatGPT made OpenAI a mainstream name
- Altman moved to push out a board member over a research paper he saw as critical of the company
- Ilya Sutskever believed Altman wasn't always honest with the board
- Some directors worried Altman prioritized expansion over AI safety
- Sutskever read the ouster statement to Altman over videoconference; Altman was reinstated days later
The author says much of his new OpenAI reporting will appear first in his newsletter Obsolete.
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