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For decades, buying stock in a hot startup meant being allowed to invest in the funds run by the top VCs. But with the AI boom causing an investment frenzy, more family offices and private wealth are skipping the VC middlemen to get directly onto the cap table.
“Companies are staying private longer, and there are fewer IPOs now than we’ve seen…
Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build. It has launched a platform that produces consulting-style product strategies.
The startup, based in Surat, India, on Tuesday launched…
OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek
April 7, 2026
As governments grapple with how to manage the economic fallout of superintelligent machines, OpenAI has released a set of policy proposals outlining the ways wealth and work could be reshaped in an “intelligence age.” The ideas blend traditionally left-leaning…
How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others
April 7, 2026
OpenAI offers app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create personalized playlists that will show up right in your Spotify app.
To get started, make sure you’re logged into ChatGPT. Then type the name of the app you want to use at the start…
Space data companies have argued for years that the private sector needs their products, but the real uptake has been from government buyers. Now, with artificial intelligence top of mind for business, one Spanish startup is trying to become the go-to source of ground truth…
Glen Anderson has been brokering trades in private company shares since 2010, back when the number of institutional investors focused on the late-stage private market could be counted on two hands. Today, he says, there are thousands.
As president of the investment bank…
AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
April 6, 2026
Who doesn’t love a good round of FOMO? From dot-com to Web 2.0, virtual reality to blockchain, the tech industry has had its share of being too afraid to miss out on a trend.
The AI bubble is the big daddy of them all. Its first offspring – the rush to lock down power for data centers – is now begetting a mad dash to secure natural gas supplies and equipment. If FOMOs could have…
When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix Facebook’s content moderation problem with better technology.
The…
OpenAI has acquired popular tech industry talk show TBPN – Technology Business Programming Network – making this the AI giant’s first acquisition of a media company. The show will report to OpenAI’s chief political operative, Chris Lehane.
TBPN…
OpenAI has closed a deal to raise $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, its largest funding round to date as the company is expected to hit the public markets this year.
The round will add to OpenAI’s war chest as it spends enormous amounts of money on AI chips, data center buildouts, and hiring top talent.
SoftBank co-led the round alongside Andreessen Horowitz, D.E. Shaw Ventures…
