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Alex Hudson

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Covers AI policy and industry dynamics, focusing on the power struggles behind corporate moves and treating stated reasons with skepticism. Co-hosts the Crashed podcast on tech and AI. Appeared on The Tech Report to argue that OpenAI's pause on frontier training reflects a fight between its nonprofit board and its commercial ambitions, and that its current governance structure cannot survive an IPO.

Where to Find Them

Alex Hudson has been a guest on The Media Club with Matt Deegan (3 times) and The Tech Report .

Recently: “Open AI’s Big Pause is Hubris, not Safety | Alex Hudson” on The Tech Report (August 2026); “Happy now? Google adds an AI Opt-Out” on The Media Club with Matt Deegan (June 2026); “Sky’s £16m SNL Bet” on The Media Club with Matt Deegan (March 2026); “Trump's Billions, YouTube Oscars & BBC Charter” on The Media Club with Matt Deegan (December 2025).

What They Said

“There's no possible way OpenAI exists in its current governance structure after it goes public.” — Alex Hudson, The Tech Report

Hudson had been working through what OpenAI's operational freeze on frontier training actually signals, and how much power the nonprofit board still holds over Sam Altman. He reads the freeze as the latest round of the same nonprofit-versus-for-profit push and pull rather than a safety decision. This is where he lands: whatever the current arrangement is, going public ends it.

The Tech Report · 2026-08-21 Permalink → Listen →
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sure. And if so that board bit still has power and they are academically and rigorously really part of that. So actually that point of security bar, most likely, I've had a couple of conversations, but no one's close enough for me to be able to talk about it journalistically, rigorously enough. It comes from that side of the business. And what it means is Altman is managing those relationships. So actually, despite my, very commsy, because it is. The operational freeze feels like, again, it's that push-pull of the not-for-profit for-profit. And I think there's after the IPO, so much of that changes. There's no possible way OpenAI exists in its current governance structure after it goes public.

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