profit-making

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Granting nonprofit status to an essentially commercial entity is a mistake, especially if the option to convert to profit-making status remains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

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

Valued at roughly $380 billion, Anthropic is legally required to balance profit-making with advancing the company’s public benefit of “responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

The government is setting out plans to "requires all schools to be firmly focused on improving children's outcomes - not excessive profit-making," the spokesperson added.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 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