Ilya Sutskever defended Altman’s ouster at an all-hands meeting, saying it was necessary to protect OpenAI’s mission of making AI beneficial to humanity (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati becomes the company’s interim CEO  —  “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its blog post.