for the firm. our north america business correspondent erin delmore has the latest. what began as the firing of openai as ceo and co founder sam altman on friday is now a stand off between hundreds of openai employees and the company s board. nearly all of openai s workers are threatening to quit if the ball doesn t resign and reinstate the former leadership. board members fired altman on friday, saying in a statement that he was not consistently candid in his communications with them. the company also announced that greg brockman the president and co founder of openai would be stepping down as chairman of the board, but he quit. the company has named emmett cher, the co founder of the live streaming platform twitch as openai s interim ceo. two broken prominent openai heads have signed onto the letter. on monday morning, the chief scientist tweeted he deeply regrets his participation in the board because my actions. openai has been the dominant force in al development with