Zilis said that the fallout from Altman’s 2023 ouster changed her view of OpenAI’s Microsoft deal.

Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI Zilis recalled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saying of OpenAI at the time that Microsoft was “below them, above them, around them.” Zilis said this denoted complete control, calling it “terrifying because [it] was just not the thing that we had been fighting so hard for.” She also said she was concerned about board members who voted for Altman’s ouster being “expelled.” But “more concerning than anything else,” Zilis said, was the idea that to her, the firm hired by OpenAI to investigate did not share what really happened with the public. A free daily digest of the news that matters most.