When Emmett Shear, the former chief executive of the livestreaming site Twitch, was named the interim chief executive of OpenAI on Sunday night, it might have seemed a curious choice.
Mr. Shear, 40, an avid video game player, was viewed as a competent leader who steered Twitch through several transitions. But he faced criticism, including over his handling of claims in 2020 that Twitch's workplace culture was hostile toward women, and over the site's slowness in responding to harmful content.
In a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, early M
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