OpenAI isn’t just buying a podcast — it’s buying influence

By Hadas Gold, Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — OpenAI’s out-of-the-blue acquisition of TBPN, the buzzy online talk show, stunned the worlds of media and technology. But it’s a continuation of a pattern that dates back a hundred years, to 1926, when RCA created NBC in part to sell radios. Time and time again, pioneers of