Is OpenAI Becoming ‘Too Big to Fail’?

OpenAI “hasn’t yet turned a profit,” notes Wall Street Journal business columnist Tim Higgins. “Its annual revenue is 2% of Amazon.com’s sales.

“Its future is uncertain beyond the hope of ushering in a godlike artificial intelligence that might help cure cancer and transform work and life as we know it. Still, it is brimming with hope and excitement.

“But what if OpenAI fails?”

There’s real concern that through many complicated and murky tech deals aimed at bolstering OpenAI’s finances, the…