Fortune: 'Will OpenAI Drama Hurt Its IPO Chances?' — New Yorker Investigation + Musk Trial Create Double Overhang

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Fortune published a dual analysis on April 7 framing OpenAI's simultaneous crises: the New Yorker's 100+ source investigation into Altman's alleged pattern of deception, the Musk trial beginning April 27, CFO resistance to IPO timing, and $14B in projected 2026 losses. The piece pairs this with Anthropic 'creating cybersecurity risks of its own making' via Claude Mythos. For builders: the governance instability at both leading AI companies raises questions about platform reliability for production workloads.