TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Is Considering Major Price Cuts Amid Rivalry With Anthropic
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 11 June 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:24.5 | Here's your T&B Tech Minute for Thursday, June 11th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:30.3 | We exclusively report that OpenAI is considering drastically lowering the prices it charges users |
| 0:35.2 | as it seeks to win customers from Anthropic. People familiar |
| 0:39.0 | with the matter say the move by the chat GPT maker would be in anticipation of similar cuts expected |
| 0:43.9 | by its rival. Business executives are beginning to balk at the high prices for AI usage as the two |
| 0:49.2 | companies are trying to win over enterprise customers. But drastic price cuts could potentially erode the company's profit |
| 0:55.2 | margins, which already lose billions of dollars due to the enormous costs of AI computing |
| 0:59.9 | resources. News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing partnership with |
| 1:05.0 | OpenAI. Speaking of Anthropic, the Claude Chatbot maker's latest AI model is facing backlash from some users over the broad restrictions on its capabilities. |
| 1:14.5 | The company previously said its mythos model was too dangerous to release widely because of fears around cybersecurity and bioweapon development. |
| 1:21.9 | Some AI experts accused Anthropic of hiding some limitations to the update, called Claude Fable 5, including quietly |
| 1:28.1 | degrading the quality of its responses about developing high-end AIs, while others found that |
| 1:32.9 | Fable 5 refused to answer any questions about biology, mathematics, and chemistry. In a statement, |
| 1:38.8 | Anthropics said it would make some safeguards visible and is working to reduce unnecessary obstructions. |
| 1:44.3 | Plus, in another WSJ exclusive, we report that NVIDIA is partnering with a bridge, an AI |
| 1:49.7 | note-taking app maker, to train a model focused on health care. The company said the AI is |
| 1:55.1 | designed for clinical conversations and will be used exclusively within a bridge's platform to |
| 1:59.6 | improve tasks like clinical decision support and documentation. |
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