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Board members warn AI leadership cannot be trusted

Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member, said the company’s nonprofit board failed to keep AI safety ahead of profit, leading to a leadership crisis that ended with Sam Altman returning as CEO and a new board being installed.

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  1. Board members say current AI governance relies on untrustworthy CEOs, raising safety concerns1,2.
  2. Nvidia's CSO left for health reasons, then CEO quit amid relationship investigations and a federal probe of Megaspeed3.
  3. Nvidia financed AI customers in 2026 to absorb TSMC wafer oversupply and keep GPU prices above MSRP4.
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