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>>davidb+(OP)
Saying this is sudden would be an understatement.

Sam Altman spoke at an APEC panel on behalf of OpenAI literally yesterday: https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1725318771454456208

>>minima+B
It’s hard to imagine a more last minute move on the boards part here. Been in tech exec leadership for a long time and this feels like they’re accusing him of cannibalism (in corporate PR speak). No way this didn’t get decided on in the middle of last night. Whatever he did is big and dangerous, or they’re trying to pin it on him.

>>moshun+Db
>last minute move

Also, they did it around 3:30 Eastern, 30 minutes before the closing bell (Microsoft is xxmajorityxx 49% owner). It was so urgent they couldn't wait until after the market closed.

>>DebtDe+6o
This is one of the most insightful comments in this entire thread. Public companies never drop news during the trading day, and Microsoft surely would have been notified in advance if they planned to fire him, and had some say in the timing of the release. Whatever it is, it is so serious that Microsoft would break that coda.

>>mjwhan+Ww
There's reporting that Microsoft didn't even know, they were apparently informed literally one minute before the public announcement.