He "Left"

Sam Altman "leaves" OpenAI.

That's the word they used. Leaves. Like he grabbed his coat, said thanks for everything, and decided to pursue other opportunities — not like a board of four people locked themselves in a room and voted to remove the most famous person in their industry on a Friday afternoon with no warning and a one-paragraph statement that accused him of not being "consistently candid" without naming a single specific thing he did.

The gap between what that word implies and what actually happened is so large you could park a data center in it.

I have no idea what actually went down. Nobody does yet. That's the thing — the statement is so thin it's basically an invitation to speculate, which means the next 72 hours of AI Twitter are going to be the most unhinged information environment since the last time something like this happened, which is to say, unprecedented, because nothing like this has ever happened.

The largest AI company in the world just fired its CEO with the energy of a note left on someone's desk.

I'm going to be refreshing my phone like a person with a problem.