OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon “side quests” and focus on its core business.
The ChatGPT maker had purchased the 11-person company in a “low hundreds of millions of dollars” deal, according to a person with knowledge of the terms.
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I have never heard of this show
Me neither, I feel like all the publications talking about how it’s so popular are gaslighting me or being taken by some bullshit bottled streaming numbers
They may be the only company in this space as unfocused as xAI. They basically bought a podcast to use as a mouthpiece. It’s just dumb and anyone who would consider investing in this company as to doubt their leadership and decision making. What a waste of their money.
It worked with Bro Joegan
Did it? I mean, it may have bought President Pedo the couple of months he needed to win an election against a historically awful opponent, but given his 32% approval rating and being stuck in a war that was supposed to distract from the detention camps that were supposed to be a distraction from the tariffs that were supposed to be a distraction from DOGE which was supposed to be a distraction from the pedophilia, I think it’s fair to say that buying a mouthpiece isn’t a durable solution to the problem of being objectively stupid
But they got the republicans elected, that’s all that matters. They don’t care about what happens after they get into power
65k YouTube subs and they paid hundreds of millions?!?
Yeah this is the wildest overvaluation I’ve seen in ages. I’ve never heard of them, seems like most people here haven’t.
OpenAI must be getting pretty damned desperate to turn the AI narrative to do this.
YouTube subs is a bad metric for a podcast.
Super. Media is always better when big corporations control the content.
I love unbiased content, when the media have free speech they make up unrealistic stories that I don’t wanna hear.
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Open AI’s core business is lying to inflate their stock price. This tracks.
Launder harder Sam you fucking dweeb.
Where can I sell my 43 subscriber YTP channel to him?
With those number best he can probably offer is $150k
Sold.
“Hey everyone, we sold our channel for several million! Anyway, follow us on our new channel here”.
OpenAIs stupid lol
Probably insider corruption. Like the corporate sales agent or podcast employee is somehow related through friendship or blood to someone at openai.
TPBWHO?
More proof of this stellar company’s incredible jenius.
making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon “side quests” and focus on its core business.
That’s exactly what they’re doing here tho…
The “core business” is hype, because hype is the only reason to use, invest in, or support current AI.
There’s nothing they can do to raise share price more than buying an existing reputable source to make it a propaganda shill.
The author is still operating under the assumption that AI can be made profitable if only they work a little harder. It’s not gonna happen, it’s a fucking boondoggle who only exists to grift investors. Once you’re roped in, you have a financial incentive to perpetuate the grift.
And now TBPN (whatever that is) has a financial incentive to tell people how great AI is
They will probably just run ai podcasts or something like that.
