Ilya Sutskever defended Altman’s ouster at an all-hands meeting, saying it was necessary to protect OpenAI’s mission of making AI beneficial to humanity (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati becomes the company’s interim CEO  —  “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative assessment course of by the board, which concluded that he was not persistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its potential to train its duties,” the corporate mentioned in its weblog publish.