Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, November 21st,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today. The Sam Altman thing is nowhere

near resolved, but what does that mean especially for Microsoft

Elon sues media matters and if your YouTube videos have been behaving

strangely of late I think I can tell you why here's what you missed today in the world of tech. So what if I told you that seemingly nothing has been resolved in this whole

Sam Altman situation?

Sources are telling the verge that Sam Altman's move to Microsoft is not a done deal.

He and open AI co-founder Greg Brockman are apparently open to returning to open

AI if the remaining board members who fired Altman resign.

Quote, the promised mass exodus of virtually every Open AI employee, including

board member and chief scientist Ilia Sussgegever who led the initial move to depose

Altman means that there is more pressure on the board than ever with only two of the three

remaining members needing to flip. Altman posted on X that quote, we are all going to work

together some way or another, which we are told is meant to indicate that the

fight continues. Altman, former President Brockman and the company's investors are still trying to find a graceful

exit for the board, say multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

The sources characterize the hiring announcement by Microsoft, which needed to have a resolution to the crisis

before the stock market opened on Monday as a quote holding pattern after Altman was

suddenly fired on Friday negotiations with the board to potentially bring him back reached a stalemate.

While Open AI's management team and investors were vetting candidates to replace the board for

Altman's potential return, the board-founder of Twitch would be CEO,

seemingly putting an end to the possibility of Altman coming back.

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