OpenAI, Supposedly Tightening Its Focus on Its Core Products, Buys Tech-Industry Talk Show TBPN

Katie Deighton, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a gift link; also on News+): OpenAI bought TBPN to encourage constructive conversation around the changes AI creates by helping the show grow, according to a memo sent by Fidji Simo, the OpenAI’s CEO of applications. TBPN will report to Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, and will help with company communications and marketing outside of the show. “They’ve helped many brands market online and because they h...