Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
What's happening
Sandhya Devanathan, a Meta executive, has left Meta to join OpenAI and will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia. The move comes as Meta faces growing scrutiny in India. Separately, OpenAI has seen a stream of high-profile departures in its infrastructure and data center teams, including its head of data centers, and internal reshuffles that shifted reporting lines around President Greg Brockman.
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Multiple leadership moves and scrutiny in key markets are making regional ops and infrastructure staffing a live issue right now.
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If you think talent leaving Big Tech always weakens the donor company, consider that Meta's loss may be OpenAI's fastest shortcut into Southeast Asia and Australia, Sandhya Devanathan just jumped ship to run those regions for OpenAI.
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- Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.
TechCrunch AIAug 28 - CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers respond by creating open source AI CEO
I hope this is okay to share since it is not self promotion and it is open source. Some of my friends were let go as part of an "AI Transformation". So they got together and created Open Executive as a tool to replace the CEO and other executives. Hopefully, turnabout is fair play and might even get some folks to think twice about using AI to replace people. It is free and available here: https://
r/artificialAug 25 - CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEOHackerNewsAug 27
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