Posted May 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM UTC

Microsoft’s lawyer is now back with Nadella.

He’s explaining that firing a CEO is “a fairly big things” and when he didn’t get any details on why Altman was fired, he felt that OpenAI’s board was “sort of amateur city as far as I was concerned.”

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