{"id":999257,"date":"2026-03-25T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999257"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:22:17","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-exits-helion-energys-board-as-firms-explore-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-exits-helion-energys-board-as-firms-explore-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman exits Helion Energy&#8217;s board as firms explore partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said on Monday he has stepped down from the board of directors of Helion Energy, the fusion startup he has backed since 2015, as the companies start to explore working together &#8220;at significant scale&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Altman, who is also on the OpenAI board, said the dual roles had become untenable \u200cas the \u2060ChatGPT maker \u2060eyes future partnerships with Helion. In a post on social media platform X, Altman \u200badded that he will have a financial interest in Helion and will recuse himself \u200bfrom any deal negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said on Monday he has stepped down from the board of directors of Helion Energy, the fusion startup he has backed since 2015, as the companies start to explore working together &#8220;at significant scale&#8221;. Altman, who is also on the OpenAI board, said the dual roles had become untenable \u200cas the \u2060ChatGPT maker \u2060eyes future partnerships with Helion. In a post on social media platform X, Altman \u200badded that he will have a financial interest in Helion and will recuse himself \u200bfrom any deal negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}