The New Yorker's investigative article argues that Sam Altman’s rise at OpenAI has been powered by extraordinary persuasion, aggressive dealmaking, and repeated allegations of deception from people closest to him, including Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, former board members, and even Microsoft executives. It ties the 2023 firing-and-reinstatement drama to a much bigger story: OpenAI’s shift away from its original safety-first nonprofit ideals toward a high-stakes empire chasing trillion-dollar scale, Gulf funding, military contracts, and political influence.

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