Board & Management Changes

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Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger has suddenly retired

December 2, 2024

Sarah Fielding

Pat Gelsinger is retiring after over 40 years at the company, and close to four years at the chip manufacturer’s helm. Effective as of December 1, Gelsinger has left both his post and his position on the board of directors. The board has now created a search committee to “diligently and expeditiously” find a new…
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author_name|Danny Gallagher, Board & Management Changes, Finance, Investment & Company Information, language|en-US, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, site|engadget, Tech Industry, Tech News

Waymo raises $5.6 billion to fund Austin and Atlanta expansion

October 25, 2024

Danny Gallagher

Waymo has raised another huge chunk of change from investors. The company announced on its blog that it secured an “oversubscribed investment round” of $5.6 billion in funding, the largest of which came from Google’s parent company Alphabet. The company is working with Uber to expand to Austin and Atlanta by the early part of…
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author_name|Jeremy Gan, Board & Management Changes, language|en-US, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, site|engadget, Tech Industry, Tech News, Video Games

Craig Duncan to succeed Alan Hartman as Xbox Game Studios head

October 14, 2024

Jeremy Gan

The head of Xbox Game Studios Alan Hartman is set to retire at the end of November, marking an end to 30 years working at Microsoft. Appointed to succeed him is Craig Duncan, the studio head of Rare, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2002. To fill in for Duncan’s eventual departure from the studio,…
Read more: Craig Duncan to succeed Alan Hartman as Xbox Game Studios head
author_name|Anna Washenko, Board & Management Changes, language|en-US, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, Science, site|engadget, Tech Industry, Tech News

CTO Mira Murati is the latest leader to leave OpenAI

September 25, 2024

Anna Washenko

Mira Murati has departed OpenAI, where she had been the chief technology officer since 2018. In a note shared with the company and then posted publicly on X, Murati said that she is exiting “because I want to create the time and space to do my own expl…
Read more: CTO Mira Murati is the latest leader to leave OpenAI
author_name|Anna Washenko, Board & Management Changes, Finance, Investment & Company Information, language|en-US, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, site|engadget, Tech Industry, Tech News

ChatGPT has doubled its weekly active users to 200 million

August 29, 2024

Anna Washenko

ChatGPT now has 200 million weekly active users, according to OpenAI. That represents a doubling of the weekly audience of 100 million the company announced last November. A representative from the company told Engadget that API usage has also doubled …
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author_name|Mariella Moon, Board & Management Changes, Finance Trading, language|en-US, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, site|engadget, Tech Industry, Tech News

Two more OpenAI leaders are leaving the company

August 6, 2024

Mariella Moon

Two key OpenAI personnel are leaving the company, while another one is taking a months-long leave of absence. As reported by The Information, OpenAI president Greg Brockman is taking a sabbatical, while his fellow co-founder John Schulman is bidding th…
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author_name|Pranav Dixit, Board & Management Changes, Finance, Investment & Company Information, language|en-US, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, site|engadget, Tech Industry, Tech News

OpenAI’s board allegedly learned about ChatGPT launch on Twitter

May 28, 2024

Pranav Dixit

Helen Toner, one of OpenAI’s former board members who was responsible for firing CEO Sam Altman last year, revealed that the company’s board didn’t know about the launch of ChatGPT until it was released in November 2022. “[The] board was not informed i…
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author_name|Mariella Moon, Board & Management Changes, Finance, Investment & Company Information, language|en-US, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, site|engadget, Tech Industry, Tech News

OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company

May 14, 2024

Mariella Moon

Ilya Sutskever has announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he's leaving OpenAI almost a decade after he co-founded the company. He's confident that OpenAI "will build [artificial general intelligence] that is both safe and benefici…
Read more: OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company
author_name|Mariella Moon, Board & Management Changes, Consumer Discretionary, Finance, Game Consoles, Investment & Company Information, language|en-US, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, site|engadget, Tech Industry, Tech News

Sony PlayStation will soon have two CEOs

May 14, 2024

Mariella Moon

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SEI) has announced a new leadership structure that puts two people in charge of different parts of its business. Hideaki Nishino, who is currently serving as the SVP for the Platform Experience Group, will become the CEO…
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author_name|Mariella Moon, Board & Management Changes, Information Technology, language|en-US, provider_name|Engadget, region|US, site|engadget, Tech Industry, Tech News

Microsoft merges its Windows and Surface teams under one leader

March 26, 2024

Mariella Moon

Microsoft is bringing together its Windows experiences and its Windows devices teams to form one division, and it has appointed company veteran Pavan Davuluri with the task of leading it. As The Verge notes, Davuluri has been serving as head of the Sur…
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Category: Board & Management Changes

Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger has suddenly retired

Waymo raises $5.6 billion to fund Austin and Atlanta expansion

Craig Duncan to succeed Alan Hartman as Xbox Game Studios head

CTO Mira Murati is the latest leader to leave OpenAI

ChatGPT has doubled its weekly active users to 200 million

Two more OpenAI leaders are leaving the company

OpenAI’s board allegedly learned about ChatGPT launch on Twitter

OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company

Sony PlayStation will soon have two CEOs

Microsoft merges its Windows and Surface teams under one leader

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