OpenAI Loses Director With Exit of Republican Hopeful Hurd (1)

OpenAI has lost another board member with the departure of former Texas representative Will Hurd, who announced at the end of June that he was entering the field of 2024 presidential candidates.

Hurd is the third director to leave the ChatGPT maker’s board this year. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman announced he was stepping down due to investment conflicts in March, two months before he launched the chatbot startup Inflection AI. Neuralink Corp. executive and Elon Musk associate Shivon Zilis also left the OpenAI board in March, the tech news site the Information reported.

In a statement about his departure, ...