OpenAI and Sam Altman’s superpowers

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Meta and Microsoft reported quarterly earnings as investors raised concerns about AI spending, and the US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady. The Bank of Japan is also expected to leave rates unchanged at its meeting on Friday, and UK oil and gas companies are looking awa ...  Show more

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We start with key points from Michael Cohen’s testimony about former President Donald Trump’s alleged involvement in a hush money scheme. A group of American medical workers are reportedly trapped at a hospital in southern Gaza. Bill Gates’ ex-wife says she’s resigning from the B ...  Show more

Plus: OpenAI and Broadcom strike a multibillion-dollar chip-development deal. And three economists are awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this e ...  Show more

Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Mandeep Singh and Bloomberg Technology Executive Editor Tom Giles discuss Sam Altman heading back to lead OpenAI less than five days after he was pushed out of one of the world’s most valuable startups, setting off a shock back-and ...  Show more