What drama! Two days after his out-of-the-blue firing by the board of OpenAI, any deal to bring Sam Altman back to the maker of ChatGPT has collapsed. Per The Verge:

After a weekend of negotiations to bring back Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO following his shock firing, the company’s nonprofit board has gone another way entirely and named former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as interim CEO. Shear will take over as CEO from Mira Murati, who was publicly aligned with Altman. The news was first reported by The Information.

That’s three CEOs in three days, if you’re keeping track.

If you’re wondering why this happened, you’re not alone. It seems to be related to ideology, and Sam Altman simply wasn’t ‘pure’ enough in his beliefs. Which has got to be the most baroque way to burn a hundred billion dollars.

Read The Verge here.