Sam Altman will not return as CEO of OpenAI, report says

Sam Altman will not return as the CEO of OpenAI and ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear will become the new interim CEO, The Information reported on Sunday, citing board director Ilya Sutskever’s statement to the company’s staff.

Shear co-founded Twitch and had stepped down from the Amazon-owned live video streaming platform earlier this year.

OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.