{"id":176778,"date":"2023-11-26T06:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T12:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/satya-nadella-microsoft-will-never-again-get-blindsided-by-openai-board-if-sam-altman-returns"},"modified":"2023-11-26T06:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T12:23:44","slug":"satya-nadella-microsoft-will-never-again-get-blindsided-by-openai-board-if-sam-altman-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/satya-nadella-microsoft-will-never-again-get-blindsided-by-openai-board-if-sam-altman-returns","title":{"rendered":"Satya Nadella: Microsoft will never again get blindsided by OpenAI board if Sam Altman returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/satya-nadella-microsoft-will-never-again-get-blindsided-by-openai-board-if-sam-altman-returns2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The OpenAI saga appears to be in a holding pattern, at least for the moment, as hundreds of employees threaten to leave <em>en masse<\/em> if the board doesn\u2019t resign and reinstate Sam Altman as CEO of the artificial intelligence powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear in interviews Monday that the company wouldn\u2019t be opposed to Altman returning to OpenAI, with changes to the board, including provisions to keep Microsoft from being surprised in the manner it was on Friday, learning of Altman\u2019s ouster minutes before the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing, I\u2019ll be very, very clear, is we\u2019re never going to get back into a situation where we get surprised like this, ever again. \u2026 That\u2019s done,\u201d Nadella said on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/4i4lKsKevNSGEUnuu7Jzn6?si=56cb20c90f064b90&nd=1&dlsi=32daeec4399c41e8\">a joint episode<\/a> of the <em>Pivot <\/em>and <em>On with Kara Swisher <\/em>podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OpenAI saga appears to be in a holding pattern, at least for the moment, as hundreds of employees threaten to leave en masse if the board doesn\u2019t resign and reinstate Sam Altman as CEO of the artificial intelligence powerhouse. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear in interviews Monday that the company wouldn\u2019t be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}