en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 2, 2026, OpenAI announced the acquisition of the technology podcast TBPN. TBPN will be integrated into OpenAI's strategy department, and the financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

According to the official statement from OpenAI, TBPN was founded in 2024 by entrepreneurs John Coogan and Jordi Hays. Guests interviewed on the podcast during its operation include: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, film director James Cameron, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

OpenAI did not specify in the statement the operational model of the program after the acquisition or the future of the original creative team. According to a TechCrunch report on April 2, 2026, the last episode of TBPN before the acquisition was released on March 15, 2026, with a total of 42 episodes produced. The podcast had an average of 120,000 plays per episode on the Spotify platform (data as of March 2026, source: Spotify public charts).

There have been precedents for podcast acquisitions as corporate content channels. In 2020, Stripe acquired the podcast "Masters of Scale" from the platform WaitWhat; in 2021, Shopify acquired some program assets from the podcast network Gimlet Media. OpenAI's acquisition continues this trend.

Content projects currently managed by OpenAI's strategy department include the company's official podcast "OpenAI Podcast" and the developer relations column "Building with AI." With the addition of TBPN, OpenAI's coverage in the field of technology executive interview content will be enhanced.

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