2/2 Not sure who I stole this from....
In a panic, the WH ordered CrowdStrike to push out an update that would enable them to track exfiltrated data from the Azure instance, in hopes of preventing it from getting out of their control. CrowdStrike rushed the job and ended up sending out a bad driver, which bricked a million Fortune 500 workstations.
This created two problems - one, Biden was now a liability because a foreign actor likely had the AI module and could impersonate him. This meant he had to go. Two, they didn't have the model themselves and couldn't make any new Biden videos.
This is why he has not appeared in public, why he dropped out, and why they are scrambling like chickens with their heads cut off.