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Monday, September 14, 2026
AI Lately

AI is about people, and what they have been up to lately.

Lately
Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8

Person

Kevin Weil

Lately: unannounced as unannounced, from OpenAI.

Public record only: name, role, employer, source, and date.

Recorded moves

  1. Kevin Weil → unannounced as unannounced, from OpenAI (Chief Product Officer)

    The first of three senior OpenAI operating departures inside a six-month span, preceding the wider exodus narrative.

    departurereportedTechCrunch: Fidji Simo Steps Down From OpenAI's No. 2 RoleApr 1, 2026

  2. Kevin Weil → OpenAI as Chief Product Officer

    Completed a same-day double hire that gave OpenAI product and finance leadership ahead of its 2024 growth push.

    hireconfirmedAxios: OpenAI hires Sarah Friar as CFO, Kevin Weil as Chief Product OfficerJun 10, 2024

In the archive

  • Hiring & Talent

    The Biggest AI Hires of 2025

    Meta's $14.3 billion Scale AI deal, OpenAI's C-suite rebuild, and Google's Windsurf license turned 2024 and 2025 into a two-year auction for AI's rarest asset: the researchers themselves.

  • Hiring & Talent

    The Biggest AI Hires of 2026 (So Far)

    Fidji Simo relinquished her post as OpenAI's second-in-command to illness, Noam Shazeer and three Google veterans departed together to found a rival, and John Ternus rose to Apple's helm, rewriting AI's leadership map in 2026.

  • Hiring & Talent

    OpenAI's Org Chart in Motion

    Fidji Simo's July 2026 exit, Kevin Weil's departure from OpenAI for Science, and Noam Shazeer's arrival from Google trace a company shedding experiments to concentrate on enterprise AI and frontier research.