Can the snubbed Altman speak?: AI newsletter 20 November 2023

The biggest AI news of the week came over the weekend, when OpenAI boss Sam Altman was dramatically defenestrated from his post and almost equally quickly put in charge of a new AI team at Microsoft – a course of events which seems to be quite the coup for Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, who now holds the purse strings for the world’s most prominent AI company and has the biggest name in the business on the payroll.