OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues

By Chronicle Newsroom · 2026-08-26 · Source: TechCrunch

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.

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