>...one source with direct knowledge of the situation, who characterized the Microsoft hiring announcement as a “holding pattern.” Microsoft needed to have some sort of resolution to the crisis before the stock market opened on Monday, according to multiple sources.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969586/sam-altman-plotting-return-open-ai-microsoft

Precisely why I predicted the Lab move. 

A lab is what you announce when you have nothing to announce.

is that even legal? misleading about hiring the oai team for stock's sake

What a ride. Every hour something new is added.

Wow good thing I definitely didn’t buy MSFT first thing this morning