OpenAI’s retreat from shedding its nonprofit control raises new questions

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…OpenAI ditches those for-profit transition plans…Google is giving children under 13 access to its chatbot…and 250 CEOs are proposing computer science and AI be required curriculum for a K-12 education.

Sam Altman and OpenAI did something unusual on Monday: They backed down.

The plan to spin out OpenAI, the $300 billion maker of ChatGPT, into an independent, for-profit company was scrapped.

To call the move an about-face is an understatement.