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XAI'S CFO STEPS DOWN, THE LATEST IN A STRING OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTURES

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xAI has seen a number of high-profile departures in recent weeks. Mike Liberatore, xAI's chief financial officer, left the company at the end of July. Robert Keele, xAI's general counsel, announced he was leaving on August 7. Raghu Rao, a senior lawyer who oversaw commercial legal affairs for xAI, left around the same time as Liberatore and Keele. Igor Babuschkin, a veteran of Google's DeepMind AI research lab and OpenAI, announced on August 13 that he was leaving to start his own venture-capital firm focused on AI safety.