Investments by OpenAI’s CEO Raise Questions About Conflicts

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Many companies backed by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, do business with the ChatGPT maker and benefit from the artificial intelligence boom driven by the blockbuster startup. That’s raising questions about conflicts. WSJ reporter Berber Jin joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss Altman’s investing. (News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, has a content-licensing partnership with OpenAI.) Plus, organizations aren’t moving away from spreadsheets. Some say that is hamstringing efforts by companies to introduce AI tools. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O. C.I. is the single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs.
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0:11.0	Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com
0:14.4	slash Wall Street.
0:19.4	Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Tuesday, June 4th.
0:22.9	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.6	Spreadsheets, like those created with Microsoft Excel
0:28.9	or Google Sheets, remain a go-to application
0:32.1	in today's workplace.
0:33.6	But some chief information officers say, depending on how they're used,
0:37.9	Sprites can hamstring efforts to incorporate
0:40.8	artificial intelligence into operations.
0:43.4	We'll explain why.
0:45.1	And then Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI, has an opaque investment empire that's making
0:51.0	him rich.
0:52.1	W.S.J. reporter Burber Jin is going to join us to talk about that
0:56.0	and why it's raising questions about potential conflicts. But first, spreadsheets shot up in popularity with the debut of Microsoft Excel in the 1980s.
1:12.0	And despite attempts from upstarts, Excel in its ilk remain dominant.
1:16.0	But the number of spreadsheets created, shared, tweaked, and re-wept
1:21.0	can result in multiple conflicting versions of the same data,
1:25.0	according to one chief information officer.
1:27.0	And lacking consistent verified data can make companies uncertain about what information they should analyze and feed into their
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