Damage Control: OpenAI Executives Scramble After CFO Floats Idea of U.S. Government ‘Backstop’

OpenAI’s top executives were engaged in a frantic damage control effort throughout Thursday, racing to contain widespread alarm over the artificial intelligence company’s financial strategy after its Chief Financial Officer, Sarah Friar, publicly suggested that the U.S. government could “backstop” the firm’s massive funding deals. The initial suggestion, made during an interview at a Wall […]