Since I know you care about context: Oh no, 48 billion of 2.75 (or would that have been 2.798?) trillion market cap. Pretty sure you lost more relative wealth buying one of your weird specialized kitchen gadgets. I hope this throws a major wrench in Microsoft embedding AI in all their shit. Apparently they're backporting that to Windows 10 now, which means I'll be buying a Mac sooner than later, but maybe I'll just go to Linux since I can't imagine too much not being feasible for my use there these days (already am Firefox focused for web, and stuff like documents and the like shouldn't have any glaring compatibilities these days I don't believe; Steam has already made Linux functional enough for the level of gaming I'm at these days).
I think you also have things backwards. Seems Altman was the one pushing profit motive and the board (which is literally managed by a non-profit organization) was worried about what he was actually up to. We'll maybe see what's what as time goes on and more details come out. But seems very likely he was pushing things too fast (and/or overpromising in order to hype investment, which they definitely should balk at after what we're seeing with crypto and AI is basically the enterprise tech version of crypto).
I smell something Musk-y. The interim CEO is ex-Tesla.
Altman is very Musky in his behavior (actually specifically in regards both have been sounding alarms about AI while they push it and profit from it). Being ex-Tesla perhaps they're like "yeah not going through another egomaniacal caution to the wind a-hole getting power to dictated anything they want".