OpenAI VP leaves hours after Sam Altman's Pentagon deal, joins Anthropic; says: Many of people I most tru

A high-ranking OpenAI executive has abruptly departed the company just hours after Sam Altman struck a controversial Pentagon partnership, signaling deep internal fractures over the artificial intelligence industry's military entanglement. The VP's immediate defection to rival Anthropic—a company explicitly founded on safety-first principles—suggests the deal breached a critical line for those who helped build OpenAI's values. The timing and target of the departure amount to a pointed statement that OpenAI's founding mission may have finally collided with its power.

The Times of India·1d ago