Ex Treasury boss Summers resigns from OpenAI after named in Epstein files

Does'America First' make the US weaker? Who is Marjorie Taylor Greene? Former United States Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board, days after US President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate his and other prominent Democrats' ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The outlet Axios first reported the resignation on Wednesday. Anthropic's AI hacking claims divide experts We appreciate his many contributions and the perspective he brought to the Board," OpenAI's board of directors said in a statement. The move comes one day after the Republican-controlled US Congress voted almost unanimously to force the release of Department of Justice files on Epstein, an outcome Trump had fought for months before ending his opposition. He has served on the OpenAI board since late 2023, following the brief removal of the ChatGPT maker's CEO, Sam Altman. Other prominent companies with ties to Summers include edu-tech firm Skillsoft, where he has been a board member since 2021, and Santander, where he chairs the bank's international advisory board. He was also a former president of Harvard University. The resignation comes after Summers announced that he would step back from all other public commitments to "rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me". "Everyone in Washington has known who Larry Summers is for decades.