Sarah Hirshander

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Today, Explained · OpenAI owes us $180 billion · 25 Mar 2026 podcast

We haven't at least publicly seen the OpenAI Foundation now that it has this sort of formalized role via this deal with the attorney general.

We haven't seen them really step up in a different way, at least not yet.

I don't think they would identify as not being a touchy feely for a good operation.

I think they're actually trying very hard to still appear that way.

And I don't want to be too cynical here.

This whole deal is like super, super new.

So it is possible that we'll be seeing a lot of changes coming in the next year or two.

But I think at least so far this year, OpenAI has made a lot of headlines because of its deal with the Pentagon and the way that it's behaved in these negotiations.

And its competitor, Anthropic, which was actually founded by former OpenAI employees who were disgruntled about some of OpenAI's decisions about converting from the nonprofit.

OpenAI has come across as the company that was more willing to negotiate with the Pentagon in a different way than Anthropic was.

Anthropic came across in that whole negotiation as a company that was willing to stand up against the Pentagon to put down some red lines where it did and did not want its technology to be used, whereas OpenAI

simply did not come across that way.

It's unclear exactly what those negotiations looked like, but that is at least sort of what the public has taken, I think, from those interactions.

And then we've also seen OpenAI get into a little bit of trouble because of some of its lobbying around AI safety.

It's been opposed to different statewide AI safety measures, and they say that they do that because they want a federal safety measure.

They're kind of collaborating with the

with the Trump administration on.

But at the same time, I think a lot of critics have raised alarms about the fact that they've been opposed to those kinds of safety measures, which Anthropic, again, this competitor to OpenAI, has embraced.

So...

I think at least from the public's perception, I'm not saying that this is everything that's going on within OpenAI, but the perception is certainly not that OpenAI is stepping forward in a real leadership way around what it means to be an ethical AI company, specifically given its nonprofit roots.

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