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OpenAI takes on another "side quest," buys tech-focused talk show TBPN

OpenAI’s acquisition of TBPN, a tech talk show with only 40,000 weekly viewers, costs $45 million and signals a deliberate pivot from chatbots to media for narrative control. TBPN’s struggling format underperforms #10's own AI podcasts, which average 150,000 listeners. The move betrays a strategic bet on curated storytelling over raw data generation.

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OpenAI takes on another "side quest," buys tech-focused talk show TBPN

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