OpenAI Just Bought a Podcast. Here's the Part That Should Worry You.

What TBPN is, the deal basics, the Lehane reveal, the structural independence problem, the Anthropic contrast, what this means for founders consuming AI media!

OpenAI just acquired TBPN. a daily live tech talk show hosted by two ex-founders, John Coogan and Jordi Hays. It’s only 18 months old, pulls around 70,000 viewers per episode, and had Zuckerberg and Satya Nadella on as recent guests. OpenAI paid low hundreds of millions for it.

On the surface it looks like a media bet. Scroll past the headline and it g…