Former Harvard President Larry Summers abruptly went on leave Wednesday from teaching at the university over recently released emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein , a spokesperson for the former U.S. Treasury secretary said.

Summers had canceled his public commitments amid the fallout of the emails being made public and earlier Wednesday severed ties with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. Harvard had reopened an investigation into connections between him and Epstein, but Summers had said he would continue teaching economics classes at the school.

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That changed Wednesday evening with the news that he will step away from teaching classes as well as his position as director of th

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