Your browser does not support the video element. The announcement came just weeks after OpenAI acquired the popular tech podcast TBPN for a reported nine figures, and a year after Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, acquired the tech podcast network Turpentine, both apparent efforts to shape the narrative about the tech industry. Silicon Valley has been idea-laundering through its own media for years — Airbnb, Casper, and Uber at one point all had their own magazines; Robinhood acquired a popular