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An OpenAI-Backed Nonprofit Gave $1,000 a Month to Poor People. Here’s What They Did With It
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s decade-in-the-making effort to understand how handing out free money affects recipients and the broader economy delivered its first big results Monday. OpenResearch found that when it gave some of the poorest Americans $1,000 a …