News Summary

• Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I round up all the latest OpenAI news.
• Sean suggested the company’s latest acquisitions address “two big existential problems that OpenAI is trying to solve right now” With personal finance startup Hiro, the company may be hoping to come up with a product that has “more hooks than just a chatbot, and maybe something worth paying more for” And with new media startup TBPN, OpenAI could be looking to “better shape its image in the public eye, which lately has not been great”