Nilay Patel

She says, yeah.

But hold on, I'm pulling Satya now.

Like...

It's just bananas.

And then Mira is telling Sam that she is trying to bring him back, which may or may not be.

It seems very clear she is engaging in different ways on both sides of this as this is all going down.

It's just bizarre.

And then they bring in Satya to try to get him to undo it because he ends up being the grown-up in the room in a lot of ways throughout this entire thing.

It's all just so insane, man.

Including his.

Yeah.

I mean, it really seems like the easiest takeaway from all of this is that all of this is just a gigantic mess.

And that it's like you could make a lot of arguments about how poorly run this company has been throughout this entire process.

I will say there are two things that came up in the why they fired Sam Altman bits of testimony that I thought were really interesting.

And the one was like we were talking about this sort of circular set of deals, that there was a sense that the board...

Helen Toner, who was also a board member at the time, testified and talked about some of this, that the board felt like it wasn't being properly made aware of all of Sam and Greg's financial entanglements.

They made this deal with a company called Helios, which is a nuclear energy company that both Sam and Greg were invested in.

That's a weird thing for OpenAI to be spending its time and resources on.

And they felt like they maybe weren't properly notified that one reason to make this deal is that it's going to help make Sam and Greg rich.

Another one that came up that I thought was really interesting is Siobhan Zillis said this too, that OpenAI's board was really concerned that it hadn't been notified in advance of ChatGPT being released.