内容来源：https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/02/openai-acquires-tbpn-the-buzzy-founder-led-business-talk-show/

内容总结：

OpenAI首次收购媒体公司，将科技界热门访谈节目TBPN纳入麾下

人工智能巨头OpenAI近日完成了对科技行业热门每日直播访谈节目TBPN（Technology Business Programming Network）的收购。这是该公司首次收购媒体资产，标志着其业务版图向内容领域延伸。

TBPN由前科技创始人约翰·库根和乔迪·海斯主持，每日在YouTube和X平台进行三小时直播，聚焦科技、商业、人工智能及国防领域。该节目因其在硅谷核心圈层的影响力而备受关注，被誉为“科技界的体育中心”，吸引了包括扎克伯格、纳德拉、贝尼奥夫及奥特曼在内的多位顶级科技公司CEO参与讨论，已成为行业内部人士坦诚交流的重要平台。

据《华尔街日报》报道，TBPN已发展成为一个年收入预计超过3000万美元的媒体品牌。OpenAI表示，收购后TBPN将保持品牌独立运营，并获得OpenAI的资源支持以扩大规模。节目将向OpenAI首席政治策略师克里斯·莱恩汇报，并入公司的战略团队。

OpenAIAGI部署负责人菲吉·西莫指出，TBPN将帮助以更易理解的方式向世界普及人工智能，让公众充分认识这项技术对日常生活的全面影响。她强调，对于OpenAI这样的非典型公司，“标准传播策略并不适用”，而TBPN的能力显得尤为必要。西莫同时承诺，TBPN在收购后将保持编辑独立性，自主决定节目内容与嘉宾选择。

此次收购也引发了一些行业观察人士的关注。OpenAI作为一家处于IPO前夜、估值高昂的AI实验室，收购一家经常讨论其自身及竞争对手的当红谈话节目，难免引发关于独立性与潜在利益冲突的讨论。此外，负责接管该节目的克里斯·莱恩是一位资深政治策略师，曾服务于克林顿政府，并在2024年大选中主导了加密货币行业超级政治行动委员会的大规模竞选资金运作。他于同年加入OpenAI，据悉其政策建议对特朗普政府颇具影响力。

OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼在社交媒体上称TBPN是他最喜爱的科技节目，并表示不期望收购会让节目对OpenAI的评论变得温和，他甚至开玩笑说会通过自己“偶尔的愚蠢决策”来帮助节目保持批判性。

TBPN联合创始人乔迪·海斯则在声明中表示，与奥特曼及OpenAI团队接触后，最深刻的印象是他们对于反馈的开放态度以及对正确发展AI的承诺。海斯称，此次收购的意义在于“从评论走向产生实际影响”，在全球范围内影响AI技术的推广与认知，这对团队至关重要。

中文翻译：

人工智能巨头OpenAI收购了科技行业热门脱口秀节目TBPN（科技商业编程网络），这是该公司首次收购媒体企业。该节目将向OpenAI首席政治事务官克里斯·莱恩汇报工作。

TBPN由前科技创业者约翰·库根和乔迪·海斯主持，是一档每日直播节目，在YouTube和X平台播出三小时，聚焦科技、商业、人工智能和国防领域。

该节目在硅谷拥有忠实粉丝群体，成为行业巨头能够坦诚交流、接受同行质询的安全空间。它被誉为科技界的"体育中心"——扎克伯格、纳德拉、贝尼奥夫乃至奥特曼等顶尖科技CEO常在此畅谈时事、回应热点，偶尔还会爆出独家猛料。

TBPN将保留独立品牌运营，OpenAI将助其扩大规模。其实该节目本就不乏发展动力——《华尔街日报》指出，TBPN已构建起媒体帝国，今年营收预计突破3000万美元。

OpenAI此前已拥有自主播客节目，用于深度访谈公司内部的技术建设者。

OpenAI通用人工智能部署主管菲吉·西莫表示，公司还将借助两位创始人在节目之外的"卓越传播与营销洞察力"，让TBPN"以帮助大众理解技术全面影响生活的方式，将AI推向世界"。

西莫进一步强调，对于OpenAI这类非传统企业，"标准传播策略根本行不通"，而TBPN的专业能力恰是必需资源。

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西莫承诺TBPN将保持编辑独立性，继续"自主策划节目、选择嘉宾并独立做出编辑决策"。

但这笔收购仍令人深思。毕竟这是一家临近IPO的顶级AI实验室，收购了时常讨论自家及竞争对手的热门脱口秀。交易完成后，TBPN将隶属OpenAI战略团队，向曾发明"庞大右翼阴谋论"以转移克林顿白宫舆论压力的克里斯·莱恩汇报。

这位被称为"政治暗黑艺术大师"的人物，同时是加密货币行业超级政治行动委员会Fairshake的幕后推手，该组织在2024年大选中耗资数亿美元打击反加密候选人。莱恩同年加入OpenAI后，持续向特朗普总统建言，推动诸如禁止各州监管AI、放宽可能延缓数据中心建设的环保限制等争议政策。

OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼在社交媒体称TBPN是其最喜爱的科技节目，他似乎相信收购不会改变该节目对公司的评论乃至批评立场。

"我不指望他们会手下留情，也确信自己会因偶尔的愚蠢决策'助力'他们保持犀利，"他写道。

而TBPN则将此次收购视作超越评论的契机。

"尽管我们时常批评行业，但在接触萨姆和OpenAI团队后，最突出的是他们接纳反馈的开放态度与追求正确的决心，"海斯在声明中表示，"从评论者转变为真正影响全球技术传播与认知的推动者，这对我们至关重要。"

英文来源：

OpenAI has acquired popular tech industry talk show TBPN — Technology Business Programming Network — making this the AI giant’s first acquisition of a media company. The show will report to OpenAI’s chief political operative, Chris Lehane.
TBPN, hosted by former tech founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays, is a daily live show that airs on YouTube and X for three hours, focusing on tech, business, AI, and defense.
The show has gained a cult following in Silicon Valley, a safe space where industry power players can speak candidly and be questioned by fellow insiders. The show has a reputation for being something of a Sports Center for the tech industry — a place where top tech CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Marc Benioff, and, yes, Sam Altman, come to chop it up, react to the news of the day, and occasionally make some of their own.
TBPN will continue to live on as its own brand, which OpenAI will help scale. Not that it necessarily needed help on that front; TBPN has grown into an empire that’s on track to pull in more than $30 million this year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
OpenAI already has its own podcast for long-form conversations with the people building tech at the company.
OpenAI will also tap the founders’ “amazing comms and marketing instincts” outside the show, according to OpenAI’s head of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, who said TBPN will “bring AI to the world in a way that helps people understand the full impact of this technology on their daily lives.”
Simo went even further, noting that TBPN’s prowess is necessary for an atypical company like OpenAI where “the standard communications playbook just doesn’t apply.”
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She said TBPN will have editorial independence and continue to “run their programming, choose their guests, and make their own editorial decisions.”
Still, the acquisition might give some pause. After all, OpenAI is a valuable AI lab on the brink of an IPO buying a buzzy talk show that often discusses the company and its competitors. And once the deal closes, TBPN will operate under OpenAI’s strategy team and report to Chris Lehane, the man who invented the phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy” as a tool to deflect press scrutiny of the Clinton White House.
Lehane, who has been described as a master of the “political dark arts,” is also behind the crypto industry super PAC Fairshake, which spent hundreds of millions to kneecap anti-crypto candidates in the 2024 election. He joined OpenAI that same year and has been in President Trump’s ear ever since, whispering recommendations for sweeping and controversial policies like preventing states from regulating AI and easing environmental restrictions that might slow data center construction.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who said in a social media post that TBPN is his favorite tech show, seems to believe the acquisition won’t change TBPN’s commentary and even criticism of the company.
“I don’t expect them to go any easier on us, am sure I’ll do my part to help enable that with occasional stupid decisions,” he wrote.
TBPN, meanwhile, sees the acquisition as a means to do more than just commentary.
“While we’ve been critical of the industry at times, after getting to know Sam and the OpenAI team, what stood out most was their openness to feedback and commitment to getting this right,” Hays said in a statement. “Moving from commentary to real impact in how this technology is distributed and understood globally is incredibly important to us.”