It's been nearly 18 months since Sam Altman was unceremoniously sacked from OpenAI before being summarily reinstated just a few days later — and a new book claims to have the tea behind the stunning coup. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book titled "The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future," Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey revealed, based on dozens of interviews with insiders, that the November 2023 debacle boiled down to one thing: money. Months prior to the episode that Microsoft insiders jokingly referred to as the "turkey-shoot clusterfuck,"