TBPN
0 statements across 0 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 6, 2026 by Alex Kantrowitz · said 28 times in 3 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (24), Ranjan Roy (3), Liz Hoffman (1)
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Apr 6, 2026 negative
Kantrowitz: TBPN acquisition won't solve OpenAI's public perception issues among non-users
“I just think it's the wrong solution because if you look at the YouGov polling and we've talked about it on this show, Who are the people that do not like AI? The most negative group about AI are people who have not used it or seen anyone else use it. They're …”
Apr 6, 2026 neutral
Kantrowitz: OpenAI's 'no side quests' rule was strictly about compute constraints
“I think a lazy argument that, that, yeah, a lazy argument that buying TBPN is a side quest, which it invariably is, but I think it misunderstands this no side quest directive, which was all about compute. You don't want to waste compute on SideQuest.”
Apr 6, 2026 negative
Apr 6, 2026 negative
Hoffman: OpenAI's TBPN acquisition was driven entirely by Sam Altman's preference
“This is just a thing Sam wanted to do. It seems to me that the simplest solution is, is the easiest one. And, you know, they are going to have to you know, follow a much broader public discourse strategy to convince the huge swaths of the public that really ju…”