Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster
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FollowSee All ReportMira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ousterThe former OpenAI CTO had receipts. But they mostly confuse her own story. by Hayden Field Hayden FieldSenior AI ReporterPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.
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FollowSee All ReportMira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ousterThe former OpenAI CTO had receipts. But they mostly confuse her own story. by Hayden Field Hayden FieldSenior AI ReporterPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.
FollowSee All by Hayden FieldMay 7, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC Part OfLIVELive updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAIsee all updates Hayden Field Hayden FieldPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. FollowSee All by Hayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.
Industry Implications
The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry’s biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT-maker. That Altman was “not consistently candid in his communications with the board.
” Now, via witness testimony and trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman, the public is getting a concrete look behind the scenes of that dramatic weekend for the first time, much of it centered on former CTO Mira Murati. It was a unique situation in that the rollercoaster of a power play — which seemed to change every hour — took place, in many ways, publicly.
The board’s strikingly vague blog post announcing Altman’s ouster was posted on OpenAI’s website, immediately sparking a laundry list of conspiracy theories bandied about on X. (It turned out that the impetus had allegedly been a pattern of lying or omission by Altman, whether about OpenAI’s safety processes, about his own ownership stake in OpenAI’s startup fund, or about the release of certain tools or features like ChatGPT. ) Other OpenAI executives and AI industry leaders made public statements in support of Altman.
This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.
