Sam Altman's messy firing from OpenAI laid bare the size of Microsoft's influence over the startup. The two companies have tried hard to show they operate as independent entities. Now, Microsoft is ...

Overnight, ex-OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman gave up their quest to return to OpenAI and agreed to join Microsoft. The two executives will build “a new advanced AI ...

Microsoft has given up its seat on Sam Altman's OpenAI board, effective immediately, the company said. Microsoft, which has invested $13 billion into Sam Altman's most well-known company, said that ...

No one on Friday could have guessed that by Monday Sam Altman would be a direct hire at Microsoft, but the outcome makes a lot of sense. Microsoft has invested an estimated $13 billion into OpenAI, ...

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Microsoft’s CEO announced in the early hours of Monday morning that Sam Altman — who was ousted from artificial-intelligence startup OpenAI in a surprise announcement late Friday — is joining ...

Sam Altman greets Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco on Nov. 6, two weeks ago. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft turned one of the most bizarre weekends in modern ...