Geoff Bennett:

It’s a major corporate shakeup in the world of artificial intelligence. Microsoft announced today that it has hired Sam Altman, the co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, after he was unexpectedly fired from that company days earlier.

Microsoft is a financial partner in OpenAI. Altman had kicked off a global race for artificial intelligence supremacy, and was the face of the A.I. boom, often drawing comparisons to tech giants like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Mike Isaac is covering all of this for The New York Times and joins us now.

So, Mike, as best I can piece together from your great reporting and a couple of conversations I had with tech industry watchers, the OpenAI board, which is influenced by the interests of scientists, was worried that the company’s expansion was out of control, might even call a dangerous.

And Sam Altman was arguing that he was trying to grow the business out of a necessity. Do I have that right? Fill in the blanks. What ultimately led to his ouster?