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OpenAI has just acquired the popular tech show TBPN, the Technology Business Programming Network.

This is OpenAI's first big move into owning a media company, but this isn't a classic media company, right?

They're not buying the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal or something.

They're buying kind of one of these up and coming tech shows that for full disclosure, this thing started in 2025.

So this has not been around.

It's only been around for

18 months, and they have now been acquired.

Today on the podcast, I want to break down how much we are speculating they've been acquired for, what people have been saying about it over on X, and all of the juicy details basically in an acquisition of a kind of first media company acquisition by OpenAI, why they might be doing this pre-IPO and where we see this going in the future.

Before we get into all of

So if you want to try all that out, it's in the link in the description to AIbox.ai.

All right, let's get into the episode.

So what's interesting here is OpenAI has just acquired TBPN.

And basically, when they bought this, a lot of people were worried.

They're like, oh, no, like OpenAI is just buying this media company.

They're going to tell them what to do.

It's going to change the direction.

Apparently, the show is going to report directly to OpenAI's chief political operator, which is Chris Leggan.

And I think this is not really a content play.

It's kind of a communications expansion.

The hosts, which were some former tech founders, John Coogan and Geordie Hayes,