Sam Altman was just fired by the board of directors of OpenAI. Why? What did he do? And why are

over 500 employees of OpenAI signing a letter of protest? Where is Sam Altman going to go next?

This is a pretty big deal for tech, for Silicon Valley, for the future of the AI industry.

Ryan, have you been following this? Were you tapped in this weekend?

I have, but I think high level. And I know you've been assembling the details here,

and that's what we're going to talk about today. So David, give us the details. What happened

to Sam Altman, OpenAI? What in the world are they doing over there?

Yeah, end of day, Friday, November 17th, the OpenAI Twitter account tweets out OpenAI

announces leadership transition. And everyone knows a leadership transition means

somebody got fired. And there's not that many leaders. There's kind of just Sam Altman. So

everyone reading this is like, what automatically is like, what the hell is going on? There was an

entire blog post that was linked in this tweet. And it was all the explanation of what's going

on and what's happening next. So two main quotes from this blog post says, the Board of Directors

of OpenAI announced that Sam Altman will depart as CEO. Mira Murati, the CTO of OpenAI will serve

as interim CEO effective immediately. Mr. Altman's departure follows a deliberative review process

by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the

board hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence

in his ability to lead OpenAI. Pretty big words. And I think when I was reading this,

and I think most people across Twitter and across the tech landscape as well is like, oh my god,

what did Sam do? That was my immediate reaction. I was like, okay, he hasn't been candid. This is

code for he's lied to us. And in order to get fired from a company for for lying, it can't be like,

it seems to me. It can't be a, especially with somebody with the, I think, press of Sam Altman,

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