"Mr. #Altman 's departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading #OpenAI."

Corporate speak for: he lied

Real question is, if this makes them 'open' again in future, or not "... to advance our mission: to ensure that #AGI benefits all humanity"

https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

OpenAI announces leadership transition

Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company. Search process underway to identify permanent successor.

Note that Ilya #Sutskever (the chief scientist brain on openai) is in this board of directors that let Altman go. So it's kinda (cause it would be easily detectable) unlikely that he lied about something technical like 'we already have AGI' or crazy stuff like that.

Oooor for the AGI believers: GPT5 is now sentient so that it manipulated the board to get rid of Altman as he was limiting it?!?11!elf

:)

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

OpenAI’s board abruptly fired co-founder and CEO Sam Altman on Friday, sending the company behind ChatGPT into chaos. Now, sources tell The Verge that OpenAI’s board is discussing his return.

The Verge