Nearly All OpenAI Employees Threaten to Leave, After Altman Ouster

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

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P.M. Edition for Nov. 20. The majority of OpenAI’s employees have threatened to leave the company, unless the board resigns and reinstates its former CEO Sam Altman, who was ousted on Friday. Investigative reporter Keach Hagey has the latest. And shares of Microsoft—which still maintains its 49% ownership stake in OpenAI and is the company’s largest investor—closed at an all-time high today. Reporter Tom Dotan has more on what the company stands to gain amid the turmoil at OpenAI. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.0	In a letter to the company's board,
0:22.0	open AI employees are threatening to leave unless it resigns and reinstates former CEO Sam Altman.
0:29.0	The number of signatories to that letter keeps climbing. It's basically almost all the employees at this point. sign
0:35.0	to that letter keeps climbing. It's basically almost all the employees at this point. I mean more than 90%
0:36.0	and from investors they're also continuing to push from all sides to bring Sam and Greg back.
0:43.0	And as AI competition heats up,
0:45.0	Amazon launches free classes to train workers.
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0:52.0	is at one of the highest levels on record.
0:54.7	It's Monday, November 20th.
0:56.3	I'm Anne Marie Fratoli for the Wall Street Journal.
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1:04.0	More than 700 of Open AIs, 770 employees are threatening to leave the company if the current board doesn't resign and reinstate CEO Sam Altman and former President Greg Brockman.
1:21.5	Both were ousted by the board on Friday. And this story has been
1:25.1	developing rapidly since then. As we reported on this morning show, Altman and Brockman
1:29.6	have already been hired by Microsoft to lead an advanced AI research team. In a letter to the board
1:34.9	of directors today, the Open AI employees say, quote, until now the company we work for and
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