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EPISODE · Jun 9, 2026 · 13 MIN

OpenAI Files for IPO in Test of Investor Appetite

from WSJ What’s News · host The Wall Street Journal

A.M. Edition for June 9. OpenAI has privately filed for an IPO, setting the ChatGPT creator up to potentially listing as soon as this fall. WSJ tech reporter Sam Schechner says the filing comes amid intense competition with rival Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX and who will get the biggest slice of public investor money this year. Plus, the Pentagon targets Alibaba, Baidu and BYD in a new Chinese military blacklist. And from London Tech Week, our conversation with the founder of AI voice company ElevenLabs, Mati Staniszewski. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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