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Former OpenAI chief operating officer, with the company since 2018, who left on the 11th.
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OpenAI's president has absorbed product strategy and the whole scaling arm while his title stayed the same. Altman is still CEO; the operating decisions are no longer his.
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Sarah Friar told staff an IPO is a milestone, not a finish line, in the same week OpenAI said it slowed scaling and the WSJ reported 18% quarterly revenue growth. Capital is the constraint being managed.
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The Preparedness team was disbanded at the end of July, per the FT, with its bio and cyber work split across existing teams. Three safety units have now closed in roughly two years.
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Gemini 3.5 Pro is two months past its promised June date with no explanation, Jeff Dean has left after 27 years, and OpenAI's valuation held flat at $852bn through a $7bn buyback.
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