Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, November 12th. Today on Forbes, why Sam Altman

won't be on the hook for OpenAI's massive spending spree. Over the last few months, OpenAI CEO, Sam

Altman has been on a tear of dealmaking, announcing multi multi-billion-dollar agreements with the biggest tech

companies in the world. There's Oracle, Invidia, Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, and most recently,

Amazon. He's committed to spending a grand sum total of $1.4 trillion on data centers in the coming years. An eyebrow-raising figure

for a company which claims its annual revenue is projected to reach $20 billion this year.

This begs an all-important question for the entire tech industry, whose fate is now tied to

OpenAI. What happens if he can't pay?

At an event this past week, OpenAI CFO Sarah Fryer

seemed to suggest that the government could act as a, quote,

backstop for the company's commitments, comments she later walked back.

And in a long-winded post on X,

Altman addressed the question of what happens to OpenAI

if its web of deals falls apart. He said, quote, if we screw up and can't fix it, we should fail,

and other companies will continue on doing good work and servicing customers. He added, quote,

we of course could be wrong, and the market, not the

government, will deal with it if we are. The odds don't look great right now. In a recent blog post,

Tomas Tungus, a general partner at Theory Ventures, wrote that in order to come through on its

compute commitments, OpenAI's revenue

would have to grow to an estimated $577 billion by 2029, roughly the size of Google's revenue

that same year. That's a roughly 2,900% jump from its current projections for 2025.

But OpenAI has options.

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