If I were in Altman’s position, my condition to come back is that the board resigns.

The Verge’s sourcing “according to people familiar” is a pretty weak attribution. We have no idea what’s going on. This could be just made up to make Sam look good. He was making threats earlier on twitter " if i start going off", and the board made some strong accusations against him. That’s not just stuff you write off and pretend never happened.