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Podcast: Market Maker
Episode: MM133: Did Sam Altman engineer his own exit to gain control of OpenAI?
Description: It's been a remarkable week at Open AI!In a series of unforeseen events, the founder was fired, took a brief stint at Microsoft, and then made a dramatic return to the helm of the company he originally created. This whirlwind of changes begs several questions: What were the reasons behind his initial termination? Who is currently in charge of OpenAI's board of directors? And can we dismiss the possibility that these events were part of a deliberate plan?Meanwhile, in markets, hedge funds that placed their bets against the U...