{"id":70555,"date":"2025-11-26T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70555\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:56:11","slug":"exclusive-openais-promise-to-stay-in-california-helped-clear-the-path-for-its-ipo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70555\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | OpenAI\u2019s Promise to Stay in California Helped Clear the Path for Its IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly two weeks ago, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman sat down for a call with California Attorney General Rob Bonta to deliver a simple message: He really wanted OpenAI to stay in California.<\/p>\n

Behind it was a subtle threat. As Bonta weighed whether to bless OpenAI\u2019s controversial conversion to a more traditional company structure<\/a>, OpenAI had spent months making the case that it was the economic heart of the California economy\u2014and would be willing to leave if Bonta blocked its plan to convert to a simpler corporate structure.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly two weeks ago, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman sat down for a call with California Attorney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17080,2080,2567,41563,3111,7,9,8,2568,450,458,32579,41558,41560,3700,3698,437,452,3108,18,2574,459,14168,41562,3127,3109,7720,41571,41572,41568,41569,41570,41573,434,3701,463,441,41564,3113,2794,2792,2573,2569,3128,41574,41565,41561,41559,41566,41575,41567,454,1970,6754,435,436],"class_list":["post-70555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","tag-ce-industry-news-filter","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-computer-science","tag-content-types","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-actions","tag-corporate-changes","tag-corporate-funding","tag-corporate-strategy","tag-corporate-strategy-planning","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-factiva-filters","tag-financial-services","tag-general-news","tag-humanities","tag-industrial-news","tag-initial-public-offerings","tag-international-expansion","tag-investing","tag-investing-securities","tag-kwexclusive","tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003063322","tag-linki3-wp-wsj-0003063322","tag-linki4-wp-wsj-0003063322","tag-linki5-wp-wsj-0003063322","tag-linki6-wp-wsj-0003063322","tag-machine-learning","tag-north-america","tag-planning","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-risk-topics-artificial-intelligence","tag-risk-topics-regulations-regulators","tag-rob-bonta","tag-sam-altman","tag-sciences","tag-sciences-humanities","tag-securities","tag-selection-of-top-stories","tag-selection-of-top-stories-trends-analysis","tag-share-capital","tag-stock-listings","tag-suggested-reading-industry-news","tag-suggested-reading-investing","tag-suggested-reading-investing-securities","tag-synd","tag-technology","tag-trends","tag-united-states","tag-western-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}