OpenAI’s Democrats in Action; China’s Open-Source AI

As OpenAI defends its planned corporate restructuring against a range of nonprofit critics, it’s probably feeling pretty good about its decision last year to hire a number of personnel with deep ties to the Democratic establishment.

Those hires, including career Democrat Chris Lehane, who leads OpenAI’s global affairs team, looked like a miscalculation once Donald Trump won the presidential election, especially given CEO Sam Altman’s previous Democratic allegiance. (Altman has changed his tune since the election, donating $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund and working with the presidential administration on the Stargate data center project.)