profit-making
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Elon Musk faced fiery questioning Wednesday in his court showdown with OpenAI, as he insisted that the maker of ChatGPT had fooled him by turning what was an altruistic pursuit into a profit-making juggernaut.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
“I went to the VP and I complained,” he says, but an executive told him, “This is not a democratic institution. We are a profit-making business.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
It all came down to profit-making moves and advertising.
From Slate • Jul. 25, 2025
Celebrating Christmas, promises Grenell, is very much in, as will be striving for profit-making programming.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025
But, like all the economists who followed him, he is content to dismiss domestic workers with this cursory treatment and to identify labourers with the workers hired for profit-making purposes.
From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various