{"id":1044415,"date":"2026-10-19T07:53:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044415"},"modified":"2026-10-19T07:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:23:51","slug":"openais-ipo-dream-may-shatter-with-sistress-sale-to-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/19\/openais-ipo-dream-may-shatter-with-sistress-sale-to-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s IPO dream may shatter with sistress sale to MS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: OpenAI might turn out to be the WeWork of AI and could be sold to a company such as Microsoft in a fire-sale, Gary Marcus, American cognitive scientist, psychologist, author, and entrepreneur, told ET in an interview. He said the fall of even one major company from the AI ecosystem, which some US policymakers believe has played a role in causing bond yields to spike through borrowed investments, will lead to a contagion effect for the world at large \u2014 and could even create a 2008-like crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus, who was in India this week, has emerged as one of the world\u2019s most widely recognised and independent critics of the current generative-AI hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: OpenAI might turn out to be the WeWork of AI and could be sold to a company such as Microsoft in a fire-sale, Gary Marcus, American cognitive scientist, psychologist, author, and entrepreneur, told ET in an interview. He said the fall of even one major company from the AI ecosystem, which some US policymakers believe has played a role in causing bond yields to spike through borrowed investments, will lead to a contagion effect for the world at large \u2014 and could even create a 2008-like crisis. Marcus, who was in India this week, has emerged as one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044418,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044415\/revisions\/1044418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}