The OpenAI drama is unfolding, yet we still don’t know why Sam Altman was fired. Reports say his other ChatGPT interests might be to blame.

H ealthy companies led by competent, commercially successful and globally beloved founders generally don’t tend to fire them. And, as Sam Altman walked on stage in San Francisco on Nov. 6, all those things could have described his role at OpenAI.

OpenAI added an observer role for partner Microsoft as the artificial-intelligence startup’s new board formally took over and former CEO Sam Altman returned on Wednesday. WSJ’s Tom Dotan analyzes the developments.

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner has announced her resignation. Toner said that the board wasn't trying to slow down OpenAI's work by firing CEO Sam Altman. Altman was eventually brought back as CEO after most of OpenAI's staff threatened to quit.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed in a blog post Wednesday that he was returning to the helm of the company he cofounded, nearly two weeks after being ousted.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn't ready to explain why the CEO fired and then rehired him - here's what he said in an interview.

Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI, recently resumed his role as the CEO of the AI startup after a recent tumultuous episode that involved his initial firing and subsequent rehiring. But, one question that still a lot of people have in mind is why all this happened in the first place.

In an internal memo, Sam Altman expressed no animosity towards Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist, who played a pivotal role in Altman's earlier removal.