Fired! Rehired! Sam Altman’s ouster and return to OpenAI
The ouster of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI, which sparked the modern era of generative AI when it launched ChatGPT a year earlier, was the tech industry shocker of the year. After the board issued a mysterious statement on November 17 saying that it had fired Altman for not being "consistently candid," Microsoft announced that it would hire Altman and any other OpenAI employees who wanted to follow …