{"id":991559,"date":"2026-02-12T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991559"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:36:02","slug":"openais-biggest-challenge-is-turning-its-ai-into-a-cash-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/openais-biggest-challenge-is-turning-its-ai-into-a-cash-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s biggest challenge is turning its AI into a cash machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, during an appearance at Harvard, Sam Altman, OpenAI&#8217;s CEO, said he hated the idea of showing ads inside ChatGPT. <\/p>\n<p>If ChatGPT started answering queries with paid advertisements, he said, people would begin to lose trust in the company&#8217;s flagship product. &#8220;I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model,&#8221; Altman said. <\/p>\n<p>This week, his company started showing ads inside ChatGPT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, during an appearance at Harvard, Sam Altman, OpenAI&#8217;s CEO, said he hated the idea of showing ads inside ChatGPT. If ChatGPT started answering queries with paid advertisements, he said, people would begin to lose trust in the company&#8217;s flagship product. &#8220;I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model,&#8221; Altman said. This week, his company started showing ads inside ChatGPT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-991559","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\/991559","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}