OpenAI’s Sam Altman’s return to the company is a Silicon Valley trope

Sam Altman was fired as CEO of OpenAI , but was rehired a week and a half ago .

John Sutter : It's a bummer, but we just might all be better off if Altman is as capable a CEO and as swell a guy as OpenAI ’s employees seem to think he is.

He says Altman 's firing and rehiring makes him something more: a person regular people need to care about.

Peter Bergen: Microsoft was set to acquire OpenAI for nothing less than the cost of some OpenAI headcount.

He says Altman is a better bet than anyone else to follow his journey from here is that OpenAI is a critical leader in a burgeoning industry of A.I. Bergen .

Employees wrote to OpenAI ’s old board of directors demanding reinstatement and threatening to quit.

The letter was interesting for what it said, but also what it didn’t say.

The good interpretation of the letter is something along the lines of “ Altman thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, and everyone who works for him believes the same, and he's a gold mine.