‘Strong, strong no’: New filing reveals who Microsoft favored — and opposed — for OpenAI’s board

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, on stage with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI Dev Day in San Francisco in 2023, about two weeks before Altman’s brief ouster from the company. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Former Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene was the name that drew the “strong, strong no” from Kevin Scott when the Microsoft CTO was weighing potential candidates for a revamped OpenAI board in a November 2023 text thread with Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, and Brad Smith.