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Emergency Pod: Sam Altman is Out at Open AI

Emergency Pod Sam Altman is Out at Open AI
“Probably the most shocking tech story of the year.”

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Sam Altman, the chief executive of Open AI, was pushed out of the company by its board of directors on Friday. The news was a complete shock to much of the company’s employee base and to its largest corporate partner, Microsoft. Silicon Valley insiders are scrambling to get answers on exactly what happened and why the board’s decision seemed so abrupt. We rundown what we know and the many things we still don’t.

Credit...Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times
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“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Davis Land and Rachel Cohn. The show is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Corey Schreppel and original music by Dan Powelland Marion Lozano.

Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly, Kate LoPresti and Jeffrey Miranda.

Kevin Roose is a Times technology columnist and a host of the podcast “Hard Fork.” More about Kevin Roose

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