Lauren Goode: I’m Lauren Goode. I’m a senior writer at WIRED.
Zoë Schiffer: I’m Zoe Schiffer, WIRED’s director of business and industry.
Michael Calore: OK. I want to start today by going back one year into the past, November 2023, to an event that we refer to as the blip.
Lauren Goode: The blip. We don’t just refer to it as the blip. That is actually the internal phrase that is used at OpenAI to describe some of the most chaotic three to four days in that company’s history.
[archival audio]: The company OpenAI, one of the top players in artificial intelligence, thrown into disarray.
[archival audio]: One of the most spectacular corporate fall-outs.
[archival audio]: The news on Wall Street today involves the stunning developments in the world of artificial intelligence.
Zoë Schiffer: It really started on November 17th, this Friday afternoon when Sam Altman, the CEO of the company, gets…
