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What Next TBD: Inside OpenAI's Implosion

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

OpenAI was the hottest startup in Silicon Valley off the success of ChatGPT. Then, the board fired Sam Altman. Guest: Mike Isaac, technology reporter at the New York Times. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey everyone, it's Lizzy.

0:43.4

Mary and I are swapping places today so that we can cover the ongoing drama at open AI.

0:49.6

And it's important to note that this is a fast-moving story.

0:52.6

Some things might have changed by the time you listen.

0:55.4

Okay, here's the show.

0:56.7

Last Friday, Mike Isaac was having a pretty relaxed day. He was getting ready for

1:08.0

Thanksgiving and doing a little meal planning. I was literally making a shopping list for the next week of Turkey and like I'm

1:18.0

literally I was gonna I was like all right I gotta make a pumpkin pie how am I doing this my going straight pumpkin am I doing some crazy stuff?

1:25.0

Mike covers tech for the New York Times and on Friday he had no idea that a massive

1:31.1

story was about to land on him.

1:33.0

He's been off Twitter for the last two months.

1:36.0

So like totally not paying any attention to the world,

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