Our colleague Deepa Citha Raman covers open AI and she didn't have the weekend she was expecting.

I was gonna like have a really nice relaxing Friday I was going to like have a really nice

relaxing Friday I was gonna pack we're going up to see my in-laws in Washington state

and I was running out the door to go to Rite Aid to pick up a prescription and then my dad

texts me he's like look at the story, how crazy.

Breaking news, Sam Altman is out as CEO of Open AI.

The company just announced.

The tech world was thrown into chaos over the weekend when the company that gave us the

groundbreaking artificial intelligence program chat gp t up and fired its popular and

well-known CEO Sam Aldman has been a dizzying 72 hours for Sam Aldman, the ousted CEO of Open AI.

And I'm literally in the doorway of my house, and was like oh my God and I dropped everything my coat my purse

except for my phone and I just ran up to my laptop and just started calling everybody I could.

And it was like only hours later when I went downstairs that I realized the door to my house is like wide open and like I just didn't close the door.

Like anyone could have just walked in and I genuinely wouldn't have known it because I was just there

writing, writing, calling, calling, calling, calling, calling.

A year ago, open AI released ChatGPT, which became one of the most viral tech products of all time and it vaulted open AI to the

tech big leagues. But now the company is at war, its employees are revolting in support of ousted CEO, Sam Altman.

You didn't get the sense of this is somebody who was in trouble.

Everyone seemed to just be behind Sam and like there wasn't anything afoot, right?

Right, but now we know better.

And then, you know, so there I am in my doorway and all of us and I realize that probably one of the most famous CEOs in the world right now has just abruptly lost his job and no one really understands why.

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