Getty, AFP, Bloomberg, New York Times, Washington Post, AP News, Indigo, VCG, Global Images Ukraine (via Getty, AP, Redux Pictures)
OpenAI first shocked the world with the release of GPT-4, then made headlines again surrounding CEO Sam Altman's leadership and the public unraveling of the company's internal boardroom drama.
The business and tech world was marked by artificial intelligence, changes in leaders and titles, historic trials and strikes, and the economic impacts of war and inflation.
Here are some of the biggest moments of the year in business and tech, as captured by photographers.
Skiers descend the slopes of the Rohrmoos skiing area covered in artificial snow as grass covers the rest of the hill on either side on January 6, 2023 in Schladming, Austria. Many European ski resorts have been snowless due to the impacts of climate change.
Daniel Kopatsch/Getty Images
Police officers carry Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg out of a group of protesters and activists and away from the edge of the Garzweiler II opencast lignite mine on January 17, 2023 in North Rhine-Westphalia, Erkelenz, Germany.
Christoph Reichwein/Picture Alliance via Getty Images
A visitor looks at artist Refik Anadol's "Unsupervised" exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, in New York. The new AI-generated installation is meant to be a thought-provoking interpretation of the New York City museum's prestigious collection.
People watch as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on February 27, 2023 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket is carrying upgraded Starlink V2 Mini satellites to be deployed into a 230-mile-high orbit.
The senior executives of OpenAI, from left: Mira Murati, chief technology officer; Sam Altman, chief executive; Greg Brockman, president; and Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist, at the company's headquarters in San Francisco on March 13, 2023.
Sam Amato of Buffalo, New York, who is a member of the union and says he was illegally fired from Starbucks after 13 years, becomes emotional during testimony by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, March 29, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Espositos, an Italian-American family-run pork store open for 100 years, says goodbye to the neighborhood on their final day in business, April 10, 2023, in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
People walk by installations advertising Vivo X Fold 2 foldable smartphone and X Flip foldable smartphone at The Bund on April 11, 2023, in Shanghai, China.
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., right, reacts to a customer carrying a Macintosh SE during the opening of the new Apple BKC store in Mumbai, India, on April 18, 2023.
Meredith Ellis looks at cattle with her son on their ranch in Rosston, Texas, April 20, 2023. Ellis has seen how global warming is altering her land. She calls it an "existential crisis," the backdrop to the endless to-do list that comes with regenerative ranching.
Protesting depositors burn tires and try to break into a Bank Audi branch in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, May 9, 2023. Depositors for years have protested at the banks, demanding their trapped savings back, as they struggle with an economic crisis that has plunged much of the country's population into poverty.
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh tries a virtual reality horse racing simulator as he attends day 1 of the 2023 Royal Windsor Horse Show in Home Park, Windsor Castle on May 11, 2023 in Windsor, England.
Nvidia president and CEO Jensen Huang enters the stage while waving to the audience at a keynote presentation at Computex 2023 on May 29, 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Photo by Walid Berrazeg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Shavon Shorter receives her AA degree during Los Angeles Valley Colleges commencement ceremony on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 in Valley Glen and plans to continue studying real estate and business management at CSUN.
Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images
Fisherwomen and men pull in a net of fish off the coast of Chuao, Venezuela, early Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Some women are joining a family tradition of fishing and in other cases launching new careers after losing jobs during Venezuela's economic crisis.
Karla Torres, 18, of Los Angeles, is a finalist in the Stuck At Prom, a duct tape scholarship contest, on Friday, July 7, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. The contest awards scholarships to high schoolers who make the best prom attire out of Duck Brand Duct tape. Torres will be attending California State University Fullerton pursuing a degree in business marketing starting Aug. 2023.
Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
High-voltage transmission lines provide electricity to data centers in Ashburn in Loudon County, Virginia, on July 16, 2023. The centers house the computer servers and hardware required to support modern internet use, including artificial intelligence. The county is home to the world's largest concentration of data centers.
Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 25, 2023, in New York City. Wall Street stocks were mixed early July 25 following a round of generally positive earnings as markets looked ahead to a Federal Reserve interest rate decision.
Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the downtown San Francisco building that housed what was formally known as Twitter, now rebranded X by owner Elon Musk, Friday, July 28, 2023.
The stage is prepared with "Bidenomics" signs before U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris addresses an event at Sycamore & Oak, a minority-owned retail village that houses other local small businesses on August 4, 2023 in Washington, D.C.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
ChatGPT and AI tools caused upheaval at universities.
Professor Darren Keast works on his computer at home in Mill Valley, CA. on August 4, 2023. Professor Keast is worried about one thing: artificial intelligence. When ChatGPT came into existence in November, it triggered a massive upheaval inside universities.
Charles Ommanney for the Washington Post via Getty
Taylor Swift performs during "The Eras Tour," August 7, 2023, at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. Swift dominated popular culture in 2023, going on the first-ever $1 billion tour and getting named Time magazine's Person of the Year.
Schoolchildren celebrate the successful landing of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, in a school in Guwahati, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. India has landed a spacecraft near the moon's south pole, an unchartered territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water and precious elements, as the country cements its growing prowess in space and technology.
CEO Linda Yaccarino speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2023 Code Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel on September 27, 2023 in Dana Point, California.
In this photo provided by NASA, Mari Montoya, left, and Curtis Calva use tools to collect asteroid particles from the base of a canister on Sept. 27, 2023, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft delivered a batch of rubble collected from the asteroid Bennu.
Striking SAG-AFTRA members picket as WGA (Writers Guild of America) members march in solidarity outside Paramount Studios on October 02, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Claudia Goldin speaks to a reporter on the phone in her home in Cambridge, Mass. after learning that she received the Nobel Prize in Economics Monday, Oct. 9, 2023.
Electrical workers from a local power supply company under the State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd patrol a 220 kV transmission line at the Taklamakan Desert on October 25, 2023 in Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
Ido Gilad, 17, drops off a bag of pomegranates he picked while volunteering on a farm in Ashkelon, Israel, October 27, 2023. The Israel-Hamas war has plunged Israel's agricultural heartlands into crisis.
Elon Musk is silhoutted as he listens to a speaker during the UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, in central England, on November 1, 2023.
Jesseca Dupart, Nneka Onuorah, Angelica Ross, Lawrence "Miss Lawrence" Washington, and Dr. Jon Paul Higgins speak onstage during "How Businesses Can Support The Black LGBTQ+ Community" at the 2023 ForbesBLK Summit on November 6, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.
People walk past the New York Stock Exchange, December 11, 2023, in New York. Stocks drifted higher in afternoon trading Monday on Wall Street ahead of the Federal Reserve's last meeting of the year.
Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference about the Federal Reserve's monetary policy at the Federal Reserve, December 13, 2023, in Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, center, speaks during a baseball news conference at Dodger Stadium, December 14, 2023, in Los Angeles. This offseason, the Dodgers committed $1.18 billion to players including Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto for 2024 and beyond.
