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Jun 2024
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Investments by OpenAI’s CEO Raise Questi...

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Many companies backed by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, do business with the ChatGPT maker and benefit from the artificial intelligence boom driven by the blockbuster startup. That’s raising questions about conflicts. WSJ reporter Berber Jin joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss Altman’s investing. (News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, has a content-licensing partnership with OpenAI.) Plus, organizations aren’t moving away from spreadsheets. Some say that is hamstringing efforts by companies to introduce AI tools.


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