OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger

Looking more and more like the dev day nuking of D’Angelo’s Poe led to this outcome. I’m surprised that connection has escaped close scrutiny - it was a conflict of interest AND now Poe is viable again as intended. For a minor player in AI he’s managed to maximize his interests and while serving on a non-profit board.

This will be a fun book to read after it&#x27;s all done.<p>As its happening I had no idea what is going on though. Surely the board can not be this incompetent? Who kicks out a current CEO without having found a replacement or at the very least a shortlist. No evidence has come out that sama did anything egregious against OpenAI. Truly one of the most bizarre sequence of events I have ever witnessed.

Almost every story we get seems to point in the direction of the board being erratic and incompetent. I feel like either that has to be the obvious truth, or I am being gaslighted by a concerted effort from the other side.

This thread just shows why people in tech have 0 social intelligence and instead follows the trending mob fashion of the time.

A writer for wired says they have reason to believe this story is a fabrication (although doesn&#x27;t explain why):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;willknight&#x2F;status&#x2F;1726793735143621058" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;willknight&#x2F;status&#x2F;1726793735143621058</a>

A lot of gaslighting, as OpenAI findings are a subject of national security.

Judging from the current situation, openai&#x27;s board of directors are all shameless people. If they still have dignity, they should resign immediately. They were unqualified and incapable of managing one of the most important technology companies in the world, and they destroyed a shining company, a great product, and the dreams of countless people. I will never use Poe and Quora again, and I will boycott any product related to Adam D&#x27;Angelo. Adam D&#x27;Angelo is an asshole.He doesn&#x27;t have any shares in OpenAI, so he doesn&#x27;t care about destroying OpenAI at all.Absolutely ridiculous, the only reason I can think of is that he&#x27;s extremely jealous of Sam.

This whole thing becomes more and more like a Schooby and the Gang case. Let&#x27;s see who&#x27;s under the mask at the end. :D *Gonna need some popcorn.

Reposting what dnissley said that got downvoted:<p>Will Knight, a writer for Wired, is stating “I have reason to believe that the OpenAI Anthropic merger story is a complete fabrication”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;willknight&#x2F;status&#x2F;1726793735143621058" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;willknight&#x2F;status&#x2F;1726793735143621058</a>

The board is desperate. A $90B company turned overnight into a lemon nobody wants, despite having amazing tech and APIs. They need to find a way to keep at least 20% of the employees from leaving, as that will allow them to continue running the services that have paying customers.

This looks more and more like the UBA merger in The Morning Show.

Some journalists on X are claiming that this story is fabricated

This could be counted as a felony against individual board members as there were clear conflict of interests among them with such a merger. I&#x27;m sure there will be lawsuits from the investors.

dupe <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38357629">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38357629</a>

Solution: an AI replaces the board.<p>Can&#x27;t do much worse.

Netflix should hire whoever is writing the script for this drama. It&#x27;s gripping!

These people are going to get sued into oblivion.

I’m voting for Dan McCrum, Elliott Brown, Maureen Farrell, Duncan Mavin and Bethany McLean to team up and write the book to end all books about corporate stupidity.

I tried not to have an opinion until now, but so far Altman seems like a greedy asshole, and D&#x27;Angelo seems like a greedier asshole.<p>That clash ended up terribly, since neither of them care about anything else than their best interests.