The Promise and Peril of Sam Altman’s Dealmaking
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:33.7 | Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Friday, October 24th. I'm Bell Lynn for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.1 | We have two stories today about the company of the moment, OpenAI. ChatGPT is by far the most popular AI |
| 0:49.8 | chatbot right now. And while you might already use it to plan a vacation or spruce up your |
| 0:55.8 | emails, OpenAI is betting that you'll use it to buy stuff too. We look at how retailers might be |
| 1:03.0 | affected if shopping inside ChatGPT becomes ubiquitous. Plus, one of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's greatest strengths is that of mega deal-making. |
| 1:13.6 | He's flown all over the world striking deals with some of the biggest companies behind the AI boom. |
| 1:20.6 | But his high-stakes tactics come with risks too. |
| 1:24.6 | But first, OpenAI just released a new feature called Instant Checkout. It allows people |
| 1:33.3 | to buy things directly through ChatGAPT. So imagine asking it for a list of top-reviewed |
| 1:39.8 | backpacks and then buying your new bag without ever leaving the chat bot. While that seems easy and |
| 1:46.1 | convenient for us, our hurt on the street columnist, Jinju Lee says it also comes with some |
| 1:52.4 | drawbacks for the retailers who partner with it. So Jinju, Walmart's stock jumped when it |
| 1:58.7 | announced recently that shoppers could go through chat |
| 2:01.1 | GPT to buy stuff. |
| 2:03.5 | Besides the bump in their stock, what are some of the possible benefits to retailers |
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