He doesn’t want to say “He joined as an employee” and 2 days later see him reinstated as OpenAI CEO. That would not look too great. Everyone is waiting to see how this settles.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

On Friday morning Nadella woke up with Sam Altman still OpenAI CEO and a close partnership with the company.

Hours later the OpenAI board chose to fire Sam Altman in a shock decision, and it sure sounds like Nadella wishes he could hit the reset button back to Friday morning.

In an interview with Bloomberg TV just moments later, anchor Emily Chang tried to get more out of Nadella on the Altman and Brockman hiring announcement.

“So they’re all in the process of joining,” replied Nadella, before quickly pivoting to talking about Microsoft’s own AI work again.

He didn’t explicitly say that, but he was more willing to talk about board changes to Bloomberg TV than the potential for Sam Altman to be an actual Microsoft employee:

I reported earlier today that Sam Altman isn’t showing up in Microsoft’s corporate directory yet, according to multiple sources.

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So far, the tech news, blog, and podcast sites are happy to flog the story and get the eyeballs. Wonder how long before the audience starts losing patience and move on to the next story?