Greg Brockman
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OpenAI Board Review Completed: Altman and Brockman Confirmed as Leaders, New Governance Structure Announced
OpenAI has completed its internal review following the November 2023 board crisis and confirmed that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will continue to lead the organization. New board members have been named and enhancements to the governance structure have been introduced. This marks a formal resolution to the leadership turmoil that briefly saw Altman removed and reinstated.
Sam Altman Returns as CEO, OpenAI Forms New Initial Board
Sam Altman has been reinstated as CEO of OpenAI following his brief ouster, with Mira Murati continuing as CTO and Greg Brockman returning as President. A new initial board has been formed, chaired by Bret Taylor. The announcement includes messages from Altman and Taylor outlining the leadership structure going forward. This resolves the governance crisis that began with Altman's sudden firing by the previous board in November 2023.
OpenAI announces leadership transition
OpenAI published an announcement regarding a leadership transition at the company. The body of the post is not available, but given the date of November 17, 2023, this corresponds to the sudden removal of Sam Altman as CEO by the OpenAI board. This was one of the most significant corporate governance events in AI industry history, triggering a multi-day crisis that ended with Altman's reinstatement and a restructured board.
Governance of Superintelligence
OpenAI published a position piece arguing that now is the appropriate time to begin developing governance frameworks for superintelligence—AI systems conceived as dramatically more capable than AGI. The post signals OpenAI's view that existing regulatory approaches will be insufficient for superintelligent systems and calls for new international coordination mechanisms. It represents an early public framing by a major lab of the policy challenges specific to post-AGI AI.
The Batch explains recursive self-improvement hype following Anthropic's coding productivity report
The Batch analyzes the surge of interest in recursive self-improvement (RSI) triggered by Anthropic's report that Claude now authors or co-authors 80% of the company's code, up from under 5% before Claude Code launched. The piece documents concrete productivity metrics—engineers contributing 8x more code lines in Q2 2026 versus Q1 2023, and 800 API fixes shipped in April that would have taken humans four years alone—alongside a spectrum of community reactions ranging from skeptical (Brundage, Mollick) to opportunistic (OpenAI, Sakana AI's new RSI Lab). The commentary frames RSI as theoretically distant but notes the marketing dimension of Anthropic's framing and the gap between agentic coding assistance and true self-directed improvement.