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What Next TBD: Inside OpenAI's Implosion

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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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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0:30.6

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0:36.6

drama at OpenAI. And it's important

0:39.3

to note that this is a fast-moving story. Some things might have changed by the time you listen.

0:44.4

Okay, here's the show.

0:52.1

Last Friday, Mike Isaac was having a pretty relaxed day.

0:56.2

He was getting ready for Thanksgiving and doing a little meal planning.

0:59.9

I was literally making a shopping list for the next week of turkey and pie.

1:07.3

Literally, I was going to let, I was like, all right, I got to make a pumpkin pie.

1:09.9

How am I doing this?

1:11.9

Am I going straight pumpkin?

1:13.4

Am I doing some crazy stuff?

1:16.1

Mike covers tech for the New York Times.

1:22.1

And on Friday, he had no idea that a massive story was about to land on him.

1:24.7

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

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