What's next for OpenAI

If you were offline this weekend, my colleague Will Douglas Heaven and I break down what you missed and what's next for the AI industry. Friday afternoon Sam Altman was summoned to a Google Meet meeting, where chief scientific officer Ilya Sutskever announced that OpenAI's board had decided Altman had been "not consistently candid in his communications" with them, and he was fired. OpenAI president and cofounder Greg Brockman and a string of senior researchers quit soon after, and CTO Mira Murati became the interim CEO. Saturday Murati made attempts to hire Altman and Brockman back, while the board was simultaneously looking for its own successor to Altman. Altman and OpenAI staffers pressured the board to quit and demanded that Altman be reinstated, giving the board a deadline, which was not met.