How Microsoft forged its OpenAI partnership, was blindsided by OpenAI's board firing CEO Sam Altman, and managed to get OpenAI to reinstate Altman (Charles Duhigg/New Yorker)

Charles Duhigg / New Yorker:

How Microsoft forged its OpenAI partnership, was blindsided by OpenAI’s board firing CEO Sam Altman, and managed to get OpenAI to reinstate Altman  —  The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely.  Then OpenAI’s board exploded all their carefully laid plans.