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Morning Edition · Saturday, July 18, 2026Published at 2:03 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI's CFO Proposes a "Cost Per Successful Task" Scorecard for AI Spending
Sarah Friar's four-part framework centers on return on compute, with OpenAI projecting $10 billion in annual revenue per gigawatt of capacity.
Sarah Friar, chief financial officer of OpenAI, published a scorecard intended to help companies judge whether their AI spending is worthwhile. The framework rests on four questions: whether AI is completing work that matters, what each suc…
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