Microsoft Hires OpenAI Co-Founder Altman; Hostage Talks Progress in Israel-Hamas War
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On today's podcast:
1) OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman is joining Microsoft to lead its AI effort after the board replaced him with Twitch’s ex-CEO, a stunning reversal for the widely respected tech-evangelist who helped jumpstart the artificial intelligence boom.
2) Israeli forces engaged in heavy fighting with Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip overnight as the US said it was optimistic about a deal to free hostages held by the militant group.
3) Elon Musk railed against “bogus” media reports accusing him of antisemitism, issuing his strongest response yet after endorsing antisemitic content in a post on X that provoked outrage and alienated advertisers like Apple Inc.
4) Rosalynn Carter, who broke new ground as an activist US first lady by attending her husband’s Cabinet meetings and leading a presidential effort to improve care for the mentally ill, all while raising a young daughter at the White House, has died. She was 96.
Full Transcript:
Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today. Karen, we begin with a wild weekend in the world of artificial intelligence. Less than seventy two hours after he was ousted at OpenAI, the company behind chat GPT, which he helped to create, Sam Aldman has now been hired by Microsoft. He's going to lead Microsoft's new in house artificial intelligence team. Bloomberg Original's host A Zimazhar, author of AI newsletter Exponential View, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella didn't waste time nabbing old men. Satya has moved very quickly to shore up the commitments he has made to his customers. Microsoft has made a big bet on open ai, and the technology was now powering so many Microsoft products, including their most premium office Suite through the co pilot that was sort of part supported by OpenAI. So I think this is a very very rapid move on his part to ensure that Microsoft can continue to be a leader in developing and deploying AI systems for enceerprises. Bloomberg Original's host A zim Oshar says Greg Brockman and open ai co founder who also left, is going to be joining Altman at Microsoft as well, and right now shares of Microsoft are hire by two and a half percent in early trading. Well, Nathan Altman was fired on Friday after the board of open Ai said they lost confidence in him as a leader, and Bloomberg's Rachel Metz says open Ai offered few clues as to the reasons for the departure. Open ai leadership has put out memos internally at the company, saying that the board hasn't said that there was any quote mal season or anything like that, so it's not totally clear what the board was initially even accusing him of doing when it got rid of him, and Bloomberg's Rachel Metz says open AI's board hired former Twitch chief Emitted Sheer as chief executive. Microsoft CEO Sunny and Adela said his company looks forward to working with Sheer and remains admitted to the open Ai relationship. Well Karen, Another big name in tech is in the news this morning for a very different reason. Elon Musk is defending himself after an anti Semitic furor has deepened. More on that this morning from Bloomberg's John Tucker, John and Nathan Musk posted on x that he is not anti Semitic and he wishes only the best for humanity. A backlash erupted last week after the head of Tesla and AX agreed with a post that said Jewish people hold a dialectical hatred of white people advertised there's like Apple and Walt Disney pulled away from Max. What we used to know is Twitter. The Financial Times Meantime reports that advertising executives privately urged X CEO Linda Yakarino over the weekend to resign in order to save her reputation. A Musk is a track record of promoting hate speech, but not everyone is abandoned Musk. Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman was among those who leapt a Musk's defense. I'm John Tucker, Bloomberg Radio, Right, John, Thank you now. To the latest. In the Middle East, the White House says a deal is as close as it's ever been for Hamas to release hostages in exchange for Israel foreing Palestinian women and children from its prisons. Deputy National Security Advisor John Finer says the agreement could involve a multi day pause in the fighting in Gaza. That would first and foremost enable the hostages to actually be released safely, but that would also make it much easier to both bring humanitarian assistance into Gaza and also distribute that assistance. John Finer at the White House spoke on ABC's This Week Heard Sundays on Bloomberg Radio. Israel also released video of a tunnel chef near the Alshifa Hospital in Gaza City. Rear Admiral and Daniel Hungary with the Israel Defense Forces says it proves Hamas used the facility as a command center. Hamas was hiding and murdering our hostages in Shifa Hospital. Hamas was building terror tunnels underneath Shifa Hospital. Israel's government also says around back who he wearbules and Yemen hijacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea, being a key global shipping route elsewhere globally. In Argentina, Karen libertarian outsider Javier Malay will become the country's new president. Malay's promising a radical shakeup to fix decades of policy mismanagement. Speaking to crowds in Buenos Aires, the president to like to stress the need for immediate action, promise the situation in Argentina is critical. The changes that this country needs are drastic. There's no room for gradual measure, and there's no way to say it. Long lived freedom. Javier Malay spoke there through an interpreter and also highlighted Argentina's critical economic condition in that address to supporters. Markets in Argentina are close today for public holiday. Well Nathan, the world mourning the loss of former First Lady Rosalind Carter, and Bloomberg's Ed Baxter has more on the passing of the wife of former President Jimmy Carter. Rosalind Carter has been a tireless humanitarian both during the administration and then after, also a mental health advocate of the First Order. Two years ago, she was asked what makes a happy marriage. She says, many different things, but trying to make each other happy every day and do things together. We're always looking to do things for fine things we can do together. She has been at hospice care. At Baxter Bloomberg Radio, All right, Ed, thank you, Let's get you caught up on some corporate news this morning. We're watching shares of bay Or. They are plunging more than twenty percent. The German pharma and agriculture company stop the main study of its top experimental medicine due to a lack of efficacy. Beyer also lost a key US trial against its we'd killer roundup. And Nathan chares at Julius Bear. They are down about ten and a half percent. The Zurich based bank warning it's full of your profit will probably decline. The firm says provisions for bad loans. Jumped futures on Wall Street are higher. SMP futures up a tenth of a percent, as our down futures. Nasdaq futures up two tenths of one percent. Treasury yield right now four point four to four percent. This is Bloomberg, all right, Nathan, Thanks, It's time now for a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. For that, we're joined by Bloomberg's Amy Morris. See me, Good morning, Good morning, Karen. Former President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott served Thanksgiving meals yesterday and an airport hangar near the southern border to nearly two hundred border officials who will be stationed on the border over Thanksgiving. Afterwards, the governor endorsed Trump's twenty twenty four bid for the White House. I'm here today to officially proclaim my endorsement for Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States of America again. Abbot praising Trump for his border policies and battle to New York Representative George Santos face is another resolution to expel him from the House after the Thanksgiving holiday, Ethics Committee member and fellow New York Republican Andrew Garbarino tells ABC News he was shocked by what the investigation uncovered. He took every opportunity of available to him as a candidate to really gain the system offer his personal benefit. I wish I knew it was gonna be bad. I didn't think it was going to be this bad. The House Ethics Committee released its report into what investigators described as quote a complex web of unlawful activity involving Representative Santo's campaign, personal and business finances. The major Los Angeles roadway damaged by arson more than a week ago, reopened way ahead of schedule yesterday evening. California Governor Gavin Newsom says the iten will be fully operational for this morning's commute, but the work continues when well we see those permanent fixes secured. That will be over the course of many weeks, maybe a few months, but that won't significantly impact the commute or impact the five lanes that are now open in both directions. A Lease are searching for a suspect in that fire. They're asking for the public's help. Airports across the country are bracing for record Thanksgiving travel this week. TSA expecting to screen thirty million passengers over the holiday. Thomas grab is in Detroit. He's flying to New Orleans, but he's not expecting big crowds at the airport while he's there. I'm