Slack message: Greg Brockman has no plans to donate beyond his initial $25M to Leading the Future, saying the PAC has become a "distraction" at OpenAI (New York Times)

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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/openai-brockman-super-pac-leading-the-future.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FFE.e3i6.y9pbdNHBVc3E&amp;smid=bs-share"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260930/i50.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260930/p50#a260930p50" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/openai-brockman-super-pac-leading-the-future.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FFE.e3i6.y9pbdNHBVc3E&amp;smid=bs-share">Slack message: Greg Brockman has no plans to donate beyond his initial $25M to Leading the Future, saying the PAC has become a &ldquo;distraction&rdquo; at OpenAI</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a &ldquo;distraction&rdquo; for the A.I. company.</p>

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