Sam Altman told staff he has ceded oversight of OpenAI's safety and security teams to focus on fundraising, supply chains, and building data centers at scale

OpenAI believes its next model could meaningfully accelerate the economy. …

The Information 2026-03-25

@btibor91 Tibor Blaho on x
Sam Altman gave up direct control of OpenAI's safety and security teams, moving safety under CRO Mark Chen and security under president Greg Brockman, so he can focus on raising money, supply chains and building data centers at a massive scale OpenAI finished pretraining its
@scaling01 @scaling01 on x
“OpenAI completed initial development of its next major AI model, codenamed Spud” GPT-5.5
@deredleritt3r Prinz on x
New “very strong” OpenAI model, with ability to “accelerate the economy”, will be released in a few weeks. Altman: things moving faster than many expected. OpenAI's product deployment team renamed to “AGI Deployment”.
@angaisb_ Angel on x
OpenAI's AGI Deployment team goes hard
@peark.es George Pearkes on bluesky
Tell me, is it good when your CEO stops focusing on product to focus on finding baggies errr I mean “raising capital”. — www.theinformation.com/articles/ ope... [image]
@edzitron.com Ed Zitron on bluesky
Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate — www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/…
r/OpenAI r on reddit
I think this is the right path for OpenAI.
r/artificial r on reddit
OpenAI just gave up on Sora and its billion-dollar Disney deal

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