The negotiations to convey Sam Altman again to OpenAI slowly proceed.

Right here’s a short replace on the place issues stand with OpenAI at the moment, after an explosive weekend and a really complicated Monday which noticed the information of Sam Altman going to Microsoft slowly fade into Satya Nadella not seeming so positive that may occur.

— We’re instructed Altman nonetheless needs to return to OpenAI and continues to barter with the board at the moment.

— As Bloomberg reported late final night time, new interim CEO Emmett Shear is concerned in mediating these negotiations, creating the frankly unprecedented state of affairs the place (1) the interim CEO who changed (2) the interim CEO who changed Sam and who (3) acquired changed for attempting to get Sam again is now (4) deeply concerned in a new effort to get Sam again. Learn it by way of a couple of instances, it’s high quality. It doesn’t make any sense to anybody else both.

— Microsoft’s provide to rent everybody who threatened to give up remains to be on the desk, and has now been made formally public, after being famous within the worker walkout letter yesterday. Basically, Microsoft seems to have receded from the state of affairs; Nadella stays within the combine however has now made a number of media appearances reiterating that he’ll will work with Altman and OpenAI “regardless of configuration,” which frankly feels like he’s speaking about the advantages of plug and play machine drivers in Home windows. All of us fall again to what we all know.

— We’re instructed everybody, together with the board, is attempting to be affordable, and put OpenAI again collectively.

We’ll hold posting updates as we now have them; on the very least we will say the general temperature has dropped, however it’s not clear any of this ends in an precise return.