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OpenAI's existential questions - TechCrunch
OpenAI has been all over the news recently, whether that news is about acquisitions, competition with Anthropic, or bigger debates about AI’s impact on society. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I did our best to round up all the latest OpenAI news. While the company’s latest acquisitions seem to be classic acqui-hires, Sean suggested they also address “two big existential problems that OpenAI is trying to solve right now.” First, with the team behind personal finance startup Hiro, the company may be hoping to come up with a product that has “more hooks than just a chatbot, and maybe something worth paying more for.” And with new media startup TBPN, OpenAI could be looking to “better shape its image in the public eye, which lately has not been great.” Read a preview of our conversation, edited for length and clarity below. Anthony: [We have] two deals that are worth mentioning, one is that OpenAI acquired this personal finance startup called Hiro. And that comes after another deal that was literally announced when we were recording our last episode of Equity, so we didn’t get to talk about it: OpenAI had also acquired TBPN — a business talk show, like a new media company. And I think both of these deals are pretty small compared to the scale of OpenAI. These are not things that people expect to really change the course of their business or anything like that, but they’re interesting because it suggests that there’s still this [attitude of,] “Let’s try out different things.” Especially [with] the TBPN deal […] particularly at this time when it feels like OpenAI, from all the reporting we’re reading, is also trying to really refocus on making ChatGPT and its GPT models really competitive in an enterprise context with programmers. Techcrunch event San Francisco, CA | October 13-15, 2026 Is running a tech talk show, should that really be on the to-do list? Kirsten: No, this should not be on the to-do list. That’s it. I do want to mention Hiro because to me, that’s an interesting one, because Julie Bort, our venture editor, super talented, she wrote about this and was I think the first to write about it. She dug in a little bit and basically this looks like an acqui-hire. The company is folding. They basically said, “By this date, you won’t be able to access this anymore.” This is a personal finance startup. And they only launched two years ago. So this absolutely is about getting talent on board...
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Targeted in Molotov Attack by Suspect Citing AI ...
This incident underscores how abstract debates about AI safety and existential risk can tragically manifest in real-world violence. The Attack and the Arrest In the early hours of April 10, 2026, Daniel Moreno-Gama allegedly attempted to attack the San Francisco residence of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with a Molotov cocktail.
Sam Altman: "He Has a Sociopathic Indifference to the Consequences of ...
When the New Yorker asked to interview OpenAI's existential safety researchers, the company's response was telling. Hours after the article's publication, OpenAI announced a new Safety Fellowship program. The question now is whether any of this matters.
