{"id":1216514,"date":"2025-02-18T12:31:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216514"},"modified":"2025-02-18T12:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:31:35","slug":"openai-board-considers-special-voting-powers-to-prevent-elon-musk-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216514","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI board considers special voting powers to prevent Elon Musk takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>OpenAI is considering granting new voting rights to its nonprofit board in a move that could help it fight an unsolicited takeover bid from Elon Musk, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5af7279f-5996-46f8-a7b9-f35d966880a0\">Financial Times reported last night<\/a>. Citing people familiar with the discussions, the FT wrote that CEO &#8220;Sam Altman and other board members are weighing a range of new governance mechanisms after OpenAI converts into a more conventional for-profit company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Giving the nonprofit&#8217;s board outsized voting power would ensure it retain[s] control of the restructured company and [is] able to over-rule other investors including existing backers such as Microsoft and SoftBank,&#8221; the FT wrote. &#8220;While no firm decisions have been made, special voting rights would also ensure OpenAI can fight off hostile bids from outsiders such as Musk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We contacted OpenAI about the report and will update this article if it provides any comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/openai-board-considers-special-voting-powers-to-prevent-elon-musk-takeover\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/openai-board-considers-special-voting-powers-to-prevent-elon-musk-takeover\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is considering granting new voting rights to its nonprofit board in a move that could help it fight an unsolicited takeover bid from Elon Musk, the Financial Times reported last night. Citing people familiar with the discussions, the FT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216514\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}