Can OpenAI Keep Spending as Growth Slows?
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In a world full of noise, long-term thinking stands out. |
| 0:07.1 | On the Capital Ideas podcast, Capital Group Leaders explore the decisions that matter most |
| 0:12.4 | in investing, leadership, and life. |
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| 0:33.6 | OpenAI fails to hit revenue and user targets as it sprints toward an IPO. |
| 0:39.3 | Plus, the Trump administration pays two more companies not to develop offshore wind projects. |
| 0:45.1 | And ahead of the Fed's rate decision tomorrow, we'll look at the pressure facing central bankers around the world. |
| 0:50.9 | The Bank of Japan is confronting the same problem that is bedeviling every central bank |
| 0:54.9 | now, which is that war in Iran has made a mess of their inflation forecast, it has made a mess of |
| 0:59.7 | their growth forecasts, and they left with very few good options and how to respond. |
| 1:04.1 | It's Tuesday, April 28th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the |
| 1:08.1 | AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business |
| 1:11.5 | stories moving your world today. |
| 1:16.7 | With just months to go before a planned IPO and its business in a slowdown, OpenAI's |
| 1:22.1 | board is probing plans to spend $600 billion on data centers and questioning CEO Sam Altman's efforts to secure |
| 1:29.4 | even more computing power. We're exclusively reporting that OpenAI CFO Sarah Fryer is worried |
| 1:35.4 | that future revenues won't be able to make up for the massive outlays. And here with more is |
| 1:40.5 | journal finance editor Alex Frankos. Alex, the strategy at OpenAI has for a long time been that massive spending would yield |
| 1:47.4 | massive growth. It seems like that math, though, now might be facing a bit of a stress test. |
| 1:52.8 | Well, there seems to be a discussion going on within OpenAI as to how much money it should |
| 1:58.0 | be spending. Its business has hit a few bumps in the road. It's losing |
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