What you need to know
- Yesterday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired and removed from the board of directors.
- Bloomberg reports, " Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was “blindsided” by the news and was furious, according to someone with direct knowledge of his thinking."
- Greg Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI and recently chairman of the board, also resigned when Altman was fired.
- Reports of several more senior researchers resigning and more in progress are causing quite the emergency at OpenAI.
- There are now reports that Sam Altman is in talks to return to CEO, per The Verge.
- Bloomberg's Emily Chang is also reporting Satya Nadella is directly involved with reinstating Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO.
