Sam Altman and Helen Toner
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wanted to push out board member Helen Toner.
  • A new report has more detail on why Sam Altman was initially pushed out by the OpenAI board.
  • Apparently, Altman tried to get board member Helen Toner kicked out, but it backfired.
  • The report cited an unnamed source who said Altman tried to play board members off each other.

The New Yorker just published a long article that has many new details on what actually happened on the OpenAI board led to the firing of CEO Sam Altman — a fiasco that was apparently internally referred to at Microsoft as the "Turkey-Shoot Clusterfuck."