https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/openai-just-hired-a-guy-accused-of-terrible-thingsContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/openai-just-hired-a-guy-accused-of-terrible-thingshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/openai-just-hired-a-guy-accused-of-terrible-things#u13411Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:36:20 +0000OpenAI has brought on Noam Shazeer. He previously served as a co-lead for Google Gemini and cofounded Character.AI. Shazeer had returned to Google in a deal worth $2.7 billion.What's confirmed:OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer.Shazeer cofounded Character.AI and was a co-lead of Google Gemini.Shazeer previously returned to Google in a deal valued at $2.7 billion. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/openai-just-hired-a-guy-accused-of-terrible-thingshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/openai-just-hired-a-guy-accused-of-terrible-things#u9031Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:31:29 +0000OpenAI has hired Noam Shazeer, a co-lead of Google Gemini and cofounder of Character.AI. Shazeer previously returned to Google in a deal valued at $2.7 billion. OpenAI also hired Dean Ball, a former Trump AI official.What's confirmed:Noam Shazeer, a Google Gemini co-lead, is joining OpenAI.Noam Shazeer cofounded the AI startup Character.AI.Noam Shazeer returned to Google two years ago in a $2.7 billion deal.OpenAI hired former Trump AI official and scholar Dean Ball.Still unconfirmed:Character.AI is linked to a spate of minor suicides.OpenAI is currently fighting more than a dozen consumer saf