Alex Osola

OpenAI is the world's most valuable startup, and it's got a lot going on.

Besides its popular chat GPT chatbot, it's got the image generator DALI and the text-to-video product Sora.

It's also working towards artificial general intelligence, broadly defined as being able to outthink humans at almost all tasks.

But last week, CEO Sam Altman put out a memo declaring a code red effort to improve the quality of chat GPT and pushing for a pause on other projects.

I'm joined now by Sam Schechner, who covers tech for The Journal.

Sam, what triggered this decision for OpenAI and what changes is it making now?

How has ChatGPT been doing, not only in terms of its lead in the AI race, but also its relationship with users?

And what does that mean for OpenAI now?

That was Wall Street Journal reporter Sam Schachner.

Thank you, Sam.

And we should note that News Corp, owner of the journal, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI.

Those AI chips that the Trump administration says NVIDIA is now allowed to ship to China, administration officials say they'll have an unusual extra step involved, a special security review.

People familiar with the matter say that the chips will go from Taiwan, where they're made, to the U.S.

for a national security review and then on to China.

The U.S.

is supposed to receive a 25 percent cut from the sales.

And some experts say that the complex supply chain journey could help the deal clear legal obstacles so that it doesn't seem like an export tax, which is forbidden by the Constitution.

The export approvals haven't been finalized and the details could change.

Coming up, why we might not be getting the full picture of how much Americans borrow and why that matters.

That's after the break.