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Re:OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger by HighFreqAsuka on Monday November 20, 2023 @09:11PM (#38358027)
I think it's pretty clear by this point that the board consists of several people who are woefully ignorant about the way the world actually works.
Re:OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger by PepperdineG on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:19PM (#38359167)
It just blows me away. The unusual board activity is what drew me to this. What I'm also waiting for is an explanation for why/how they canned Brockman as their Chairman of the Board. With him so far I've not even heard of a hint of it being for cause, which it isn't exactly normal to remove a board member without cause...them offering to let him remain as regular employee actually made what they did all the more eyebrow raising.
Re:OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger by startupsfail on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:24PM (#38359213)
It’s hard to tell from the outside what happened there. And if the article used a reliable source.
Re:OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger by murakamiiq84 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:35AM (#38362788)
https://twitter.com/willknight/status/1726793735143621058 This guy claims he has "reason" to believe it's a "complete fabrication."

No idea whether to trust this guy or his source more than the original article though.

Re:OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger by harryVic on Monday November 20, 2023 @10:29PM (#38358729)
Feels like sabotage. Adam, the quora guy runs a chatbot AI company as well and is on the board.
Re:OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger by startupsfail on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:27PM (#38359231)
If they’d wanted to sabotage OpenAI, they could have declared that building GPT5 is unsafe, pulled the plug and erased all the backups, no?
Re:OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger by jacquesm on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:26AM (#38362701)
They could have. But they wanted to have it too.
Re:OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger by huytersd on Monday November 20, 2023 @09:28PM (#38358195)
Hellen and Tasha and possibly Adam.
Re:OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger by rthnbgrredf on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:22PM (#38368603)
But who has the power to remove the board?