Sam Altman Fired as OpenAI CEO, Joins Microsoft?

Sam Altman Has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, joining Microsoft this morning and sending the internet into a spiral. Here's everything you need to know about what went down and what it all means for the world.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 What Happened?
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1725611900262588813?s=20
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
https://x.com/sama/status/1725631621511184771?s=20
https://x.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594?s=20

06:25 OpenAI Board Members
https://twitter.com/ilyasut?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://twitter.com/adamdangelo?lang=en
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tasha-mccauley-wikipedia-joseph-gordon-levitt-wife-ali-raza-3gsbf/?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_more-articles_related-content-card
https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/helen-toner/

11:59 The New CEO
https://x.com/eshear/status/1726526112019382275?s=20
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1726484049664057789?s=20
https://x.com/EffMktHype/status/1726558177028935770?s=20
https://x.com/Jason/status/1726492873775079807?s=20

16:32 Microsoft's Role
https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1726509045803336122?s=20
https://x.com/sama/status/1726510261509779876?s=20
https://x.com/balajis/status/1726515841221681619?s=20

22:27 Employee Pushback
https://x.com/miramurati/status/1726542556203483392?s=20
https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028?s=20

25:01 The Future of Silicon Valley

28:03 Decel vs e/acc
https://x.com/hosseeb/status/1726492186953535764?s=20

31:11 Takeaways

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