Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday November 21st. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Sam Altman has a new job at Microsoft after being ousted from open AI.

Now more than 90% of open AI's employees have threatened to leave the company.

Our reporter Kichegy will join us with the latest developments.

Plus, Amazon is offering free classes on artificial intelligence.

But starting with that Sam Altman news, more than 90% of Open AI's roughly 770 employees have threatened to quit unless the board resigns and reinstate former CEO Sam Altman and former President Greg Brockman. Altman was unexpectedly ousted late last week by the board amid disagreements

over the safety of its products and the rapid expansion of the company's commercial offerings.

Brockman resigned in protest.

Among those who signed Monday's letter to quit was Ilia Suitskavur, the company's chief scientist,

and one of the board members have voted to fire Altman.

Altman and Brockman have already been hired by Microsoft, however, to lead a new advanced AI research team there.

Open AI's board also found someone else to take Altman's spot, former Twitch CEO Emmichir.

As the drama continues to unfold, our reporter Kichaggy has more on what Open AI's fallout

tells us about the considerations AI companies need to take.

If you step back from the whole thing, open AI had this structure of a nonprofit on top of a

for profit that was trying to sort of square a circle.

It was trying to say we are here for the benefit of humanity,

but we are doing something that requires

so much compute power that we have to raise billions of dollars.

There was always a tension between those two things.

And one way of interpreting what's happened

is that that tension just broke when it got so big and so popular and so much usage.

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