Elon bids for OpenAI, and Sam says no

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Katie and Danny explore Elon Musk's $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI, and Sam Altman's instant dismissal of the bid, as well as decoding the rest of the exclusive interview earlier in the week.

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0:00.0	Before the AirPod arrived, I probably spent 7% of my life untangling my headphone chord.
0:12.0	That would be jumbled up in my pocket and then I would just have to undo it like some kind of puzzle.
0:17.0	And that's what I was doing before I got on here, which is why I was late because I have these janky little headphones. But I feel like instead of spending 7% of my life untangling headphone cords, I probably spend 4% of my life looking for my AirPods. Oh, me too. So it's a marginal improvement.
0:41.2	So what we're saying is Apple hasn't really solved the productivity puzzle.
0:44.9	It's just created another.
0:49.8	This is the Times Tech podcast.
0:51.0	I'm Danny Fortson.
0:53.0	Danny back in the valley.
1:00.8	And I'm Katie Prescott in the city of London still in London. What a week for tech. It's been and our podcast.
1:09.7	Yeah. So ahead of the Paris Tech Action Summit, Open AI's boss, Sam Altman, sat down with us together in London earlier this week.
1:13.3	Do go and listen to that episode if you haven't already.
1:15.8	Yeah, the Action Summit, of course, not the Safety Summit.
1:21.4	We are going to revisit that interview today to put it in the context of the AI Action Summit. And in the context of what Elon Musk went and did as soon as we put Sam Altman on the Eurostar of Paris.
1:28.6	Actually, I don't know if he was on the Eurostar or not.
1:30.2	I just made that up.
1:31.2	Maybe he, I assume he got a private.
1:32.7	Yeah, private jet.
1:34.2	Yeah.
1:35.4	But yeah, so imagine the scene.
1:37.9	It's late Monday morning.
1:40.1	Sam Altman comes in.
1:41.3	We shake his hand.
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