Sam Altman and Satya Nadella are not scaling into profitability. They are retreating into control.

What? Me worry?

By Alan Jacobson, AI Economics Strategist

According to The Information on Wednesday, March 18, 2026:

OpenAI has decided the “everything everywhere all at once” strategy isn’t ideal, after all. OpenAI executive Fidji Simo told staffers last week that the company needed to “refocus on business customers and cut down on side quests that were becoming a distraction.” (Is that the understatement of the year?) That refocusing has already begun. A couple of weeks ago, OpenAI had retreated from its plans to offer shopping directly in the ChatGPT app. Simo’s comments raised questions about what—among the myriad projects OpenAI has announced or is working on—it might abandon next.

Microsoft is overhauling its executive ranks to give CEO Satya Nadella more-direct oversight of engineering teams working on its Copilot chatbots, Nadella said in a memo to staff Tuesday.

– Published Wednesday, March 18, 2026