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He did say "thank you for bringing us up to this point" which is what the article is translating as "you're fired". Because that is indeed what it means in corporate speech, the article is correct. Everyone else is sharing the same interpretation, too, because we know what kind of guy Altman is.
That's the speech of a techbro CEO who has reached his revenue goal and is announcing that he's closing your shop.
That's perfectly fine for people to interpret it that way, and if they're right and Altman fires his programmers (I highly doubt this, because while he's an idiot, he's not stupid) they will be proven correct.
My point is that for a journalist to make the interpretation and deliver is as fact, to me, crosses a line.
It's one thing to say, "Altman thanks programmers for their work amidst layoffs across the industry" and another thing entirely to say, "Altman says programmers time is over". It weakens trust in journalism to make an interpretation as a journalist and deliver it to an audience as fact when it very well might not be true.