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- Sam Altman was forced out of his position as the CEO of OpenAI on Friday.
- The announcement kicked off a weekend of chaos involving Altman, Microsoft, and the firm behind ChatGPT.
- Here's why you should care, even if you aren't in the tech world.
On Friday afternoon, the tech world reverberated with news that Sam Altman was being pushed out as the CEO of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT.