After being blindsided by Sam Altman firing, Satya Nadella vows OpenAI governance changes: ‘Surprises are bad’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella signaled that the company would play a bigger role in OpenAI’s governance going forward, but left it unclear whether Microsoft would push to have its own directors on the board of the startup that it has invested $13 billion in. “Surprises are bad, and we just want to make sure things are done in a way that will allow us to continue to partner well,” Nadella said in an interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on Monday. Nadella was reportedly livid and blindsided by the OpenAI board’s...