A weekly newsletter on power and the press Jordi Hays and John Coogan began streaming last year for more than three hours daily, offering boosterish takes on business and tech and building a small but influential audience among Silicon Valley titans and New York media players. On Thursday, OpenAI acquired TBPN — the “Technology Business Programming Network”— in a deal the Financial Times pegged in the “low hundreds of millions.” It was a dizzying move that initially felt like a delayed April Fool’s joke. Why would the AI juggernaut behind ChatGPT get into the media business by buying a podcast?
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