OpenAI's loss is Microsoft's gain: How the AI race just changed

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When a company invests $13 billion in a startup, as Microsoft has with OpenAI, you would expect to get at least a few minutes prior notice when its board fired its market-leading CEO. Instead, news that OpenAI was firing Sam Altman hit everyone outside the board like a thunderbolt. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was probably not amused. But, as things shake out, he has reason to smile. 

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