New Delhi, April 19 -- In the space of a single Friday, OpenAI shed three senior leaders, shut down a division it had publicly championed just months earlier, and quietly signalled that its ambitions for scientific AI are being subsumed into a coding application - all while the company accelerates towards a reported initial public offering.

The departures, confirmed on 17 April 2026, read like a restructuring memo come to life. Kevin Weil, who had served first as OpenAI's chief product officer before moving to lead its science initiative, announced his exit publicly. Srinivas Narayanan, the company's chief technology officer for enterprise applications, told colleagues internally that he was stepping away to spend time with his family. ...