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TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: The European Union is looking to lure AI experts and scientists to its shores. And a C-suite shakeup at European satellite-systems company Eutelsat. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:22.0

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0:27.9

slash UK slash AI for people. Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Monday, May 5th. I'm Victoria

0:34.9

Craig for the Wall Street Journal. A controversial plan to convert

0:38.3

chat GPT maker OpenAI from a non-profit entity to a for-profit one has been called off.

0:45.0

OpenAI has been working on a change to its business structure in the roughly year and a half

0:49.1

since co-founder Sam Altman was briefly ousted by the board. But after discussions with civic leaders and the

0:55.2

attorneys general of California and Delaware, the company said it'll instead transform its for-profit

1:01.2

subsidiary into a public benefit corporation that's controlled by the nonprofit parent. During a press

1:07.3

conference today, Altman said the change will allow the company to have a, quote, more understandable structure.

1:13.1

The move to a for-profit status was said to be a critical component of a $40 billion fundraising round for OpenAI.

1:21.0

Elsewhere, the European Union is looking to lure top scientists and AI researchers to its shores as President Trump moves to cut funding

1:29.2

for federal research and U.S. universities. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a speech

1:34.7

today she wants Europe to be a leader, in quote, priority technologies from AI to quantum, from space

1:41.0

semiconductors and microelectronics to digital health, genomics, and biotechnology.

1:46.8

The block plans to put a number of policies in place to encourage foreign scientists to relocate there.

1:53.0

And finally, there's a new CEO in the wings at Udelsat, a European alternative to Elon Musk's satellite systems company Starlink

2:00.0

that we talked about last month on tech news briefing.

2:03.3

Effective June 1st, Jean-François Falichet will join Yudelsat, which has said it's committed to boosting Europe's autonomy and satellite-based connectivity and to supplying Internet access to Ukraine,

2:15.1

whose front line Musk has said would collapse if he were to

2:18.5

turn off Starlink access. Fallichet comes to UtilSat from French telecoms company Orange, where he

2:24.8

led an expansion across Europe. For a deeper dive into what's happening in tech, check out Tuesday's

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