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Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Friday, March 28th. I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street Journal.

We're exclusively reporting that ChatGPT's parent company, OpenAI, is finalizing a $40 billion funding round that would be one

of the biggest startup fundraisers of all time. But there's a catch. The nonprofit company must

successfully restructure itself into a for-profit one. If it fails to do so, lead investor SoftBank can shrink the funding round size by half.

Pressure has mounted for such a transition after Sam Altman was removed briefly as CEO in late 2023.

At the time, OpenAI's board said Altman wasn't consistently honest in his

communications. That led investors to argue that it was the non-profit structure that carried too

many risks. News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing partnership

with OpenAI. Elsewhere, what was supposed to be the flashiest stock

market debut of the year turned into a high-profile stumble. Corweave, which rents access to its

stash of Nvidia servers, made its debut on the NASDAQ stock exchange today. It began trading

about four hours after the broader market open and just under its IPO price of $40.

Though it passed that threshold during the remainder of the session, it traded well below the $47 to $55 range the company targeted during its roadshow for investors.

The lackluster start for core weave is a sign of cooling market demand for AI-focused startups, and it

illustrates the difficulty for companies hoping to make their way to the public markets this year.

WSJ's Corey Dreebush explains the worry for investors.

There are company-specific issues, and investors said no. We don't really want to pay that much. And they also had concerns

about the sustainability of the AI boom. And obviously, companies right now are spending

hundreds of billions of dollars in AI. But how sustainable is that? Corweave shares and did

Friday's trading session, little changed. Finally, President Trump

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