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If this happened any non-western country headlines would say "corruption".

• mslate 1y ago
  In California, it's called an "impact fee"
• chii 1y ago
  It's only corrupt if it's our "enemies" who does it!
• hahajk 1y ago
  The WSJ did describe it as a "subtle threat".
• raincole 1y ago
  ...No? It's very common to incentivize companies to locate at some areas. Special Economic Zones are not some western-only idea. Actually you got it upside down. Only in western countries people will think it's corruption.
• AdamN 1y ago
  If the deal is in California's and OpenAI's interests roughly than there is no corruption. Sure they're using their big weapons but there's not a major principal-agent divergence on either side from what I can see. Altman wants to build the business (and make money) and California wants the tax revenue and maximize chances of the core business remaining largely in the state.