Microsoft joins OpenAI's board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO

Sam Altman. Sam Altman is officially OpenAI's CEO again. Just before Thanksgiving, the company said it had reached a deal in principle for him to return, and now it's done. Microsoft is getting a non-voting observer seat on the nonprofit board that controls OpenAI as well, the company announced on Wednesday. "I have never been more excited about the future," Altman said in a memo to employees shared with The Verge. "I am extremely grateful for everyone's hard work in an unclear and unprecedented...