OpenAI’s Struggles Spooks Tech Stocks & UAE Walks Away From OPEC

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🗓️ 29 April 2026

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Episode 834: Neal and Toby chat about the United Arab Emirates leaving OPEC next month, after six decades of membership, and how it’ll impact the global oil supply. Next, OpenAI reports missing key revenue targets, which sends companies linked to the ChatGPT-maker into a tailspin. Then, Jimmy Kimmel is back in Trump’s crosshairs again as he calls for the host’s firing after a joke made days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting. Meanwhile, Joby Aviation completes its first electric air taxi flight from JFK to Manhattan. Learn more at https://www.windmillair.com/MBD Get tix for Morning Brew’s live show! https://www.caveat.nyc/events/morning-brew-presents-business-island-4-30-2026 Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Security program on spreadsheets. New regulations piling up? An audit dread. It's time for Vanta.
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0:30.6	Good morning, Brew Daily show. I'm Neil Fryman.
0:33.6	And I'm Toby Howell.
0:34.6	Today, why the UAE is leaving OPEC.
0:40.3	Then, is OpenAI doing okay? One report says no.
0:42.3	It's Wednesday, April 29th.
0:44.3	Let's ride.
0:49.3	Good morning.
0:50.3	If you fly into Tokyo this summer and something happens to your luggage, you might be able to blame a robot.
0:56.5	Japan Airlines is beginning a trial in May that will introduce humanoid robot workers to the tarmac at Henneda Airport,
1:02.7	handling luggage and cargo. The goal is to see whether these bots can alleviate some of the
1:06.8	physically demanding work of human baggage handlers while plugging the gap on a widening
1:10.9	labor shortage. Toby, this might be the biggest tech innovation at airports since moving walkways.
1:16.0	Whatever Japanese airports decide to do, I'm on board with because Japan is home to Kansai
1:21.6	International Airport, which hasn't lost a single piece of luggage since it opened back in 1994. I haven't gone to one year
1:29.2	without losing my wallet or keys, but Kansai is three decades in and they have a perfect record.
1:34.6	Kansai even turns the handles of the suitcase on the conveyor belt in the baggage claim area
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