Lessons from OpenAI’s botched Friday news dump

Friday news dumps can work. Here’s why this one didn’t.
Chris Harihar is executive vice president at Crenshaw Communications, a Mod Op company.
On Friday, OpenAI announced it had fired well-liked CEO Sam Altman, upending the AI industry. This decision, driven by some still-vague AI governance concerns from the nonprofit board, alongside Altman’s for-profit commercialization push, led to a weekend-long saga. Microsoft and other OpenAI investors even tried to influence the board