From the Daring Fireball post:
About 700 OpenAI employees, out of a total of 770 …
There are 770 OpenAI employees!?
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Not any more, it seems.
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It appears this is solely due to four OpenAI board members. One of which, Ilya Sutskever, who joined the rest of the employees and the temporary CEO, and signed the letter calling for the remaining three board members resignation.
Now that the Hollywood writer’s strike is over I’m sure there are several people working on a movie script about this.
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Will it open with a Bluescreen? 
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They won’t use talk writers, instead just have a conversation with ChatGPT.
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Soooo, with all of these apps having Black Friday sales with OpenAI as a feature, is it best to hold off on buying at this time, as they could be kapoot tomorrow?
The lead roles will be played by AI-generated instances of the Marx Brothers, with the Three Stooges playing the OpenAI board. Pies-in-the-face all around. 
Katie
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I don’t know how much weight an unsigned letter supposedly leaked by Elon Musk will have. But this part confuses me:
“As you have now witnessed what happens when you dare stand up to Sam Altman, perhaps you can understand why so many of us have remained silent for fear of repercussions. “.
This can’t be the 700+ employees who were guaranteed a job at the second largest company in the world if OpenAI had imploded. So who are they?
Excelent execution by MS here, stealing the thunder from Google while they were figuring out how to deploy the tech without jeopardizing their search business.
My takeaway from all this bruhaha is that we saw the “for profit” faction headed by Altman win the battle against a more conservative board.
Absolutely, an anonymous source has no credibility at all. The broad strokes of the WaPo story could describe a great many people in history. Some succeeded, some flamed out, and some ended up in prison or worse. A couple founded two of the most valuable companies in the world.
Seven hundred people that work with Altman, a number of investors, and the head of a very large corporation seem to think he has a good chance to be successful. I have no idea if they are correct or not.
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Hopefully not any cost but I know what you mean. The corporation I worked for decades ago had a real a*hole for a CEO but he delivered results which put him on the covers of Fortune and Forbes.