FinTech
Sam Altman on OpenAI’s $850 billion in planned buildouts: ‘People are worried. I totally get that’
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images ABILENE, Texas — Sam Altman stood on a patch of hot Texas dirt, the kind that turns to dust storms on […]
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Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (L), and Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia. Reuters ABILENE, Texas – Sam Altman had a deadline. OpenAI’s CEO was headed to Texas to unveil his company’s next big infrastructure push, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wanted in on the action. Through a series of hurried negotiations, late-night calls and last-minute […]
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Crypto startup Zerohash raises $104 million from Morgan Stanley, SoFi, Apollo and others
Key Points Crypto infrastructure startup Zerohash has raised $104 million in funding with backing from financial firms including Morgan Stanley and SoFi, CNBC has learned. The round was led by Interactive Brokers, the global automated trading firm, and includes strategic investors who are also clients of Zerohash, founder and CEO Edward Woodford told CNBC. Zerohash […]
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OpenAI leads private market surge as 7 tech startups reach combined $1.3 trillion valuation
Three years ago, Sam Altman lit the fuse for what’s become the most explosive bull run in the history of tech startups with the launch of ChatGPT. Along with OpenAI’s rapid rise to a $500 billion valuation, other prominent names like SpaceX, Anthropic and Anduril have seen astronomical markups of late. In total, a basket […]
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The UK’s top fintech companies: 2025
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Google might lose its $26 billion search deals. Analysts say that could fuel its AI growth
Any day now, a federal judge is expected to issue a landmark ruling that could upend some of the most lucrative deals in Silicon Valley: Google’s default search contracts. At stake is more than $26 billion a year, $20 billion of which goes to Apple. That’s nearly a quarter of Alphabet’s operating income. For decades, […]
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Crypto firms urge UK to form national stablecoin strategy to avoid falling behind U.S.
Stablecoin Tether and Circle’s USDC dominate the market. Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images The U.K. should establish a national stablecoin strategy to enable adoption of the tokens and avoid falling behind the U.S. on the disruptive new technology, several major crypto firms said Wednesday. In an open letter addressed to Finance Minister Rachel […]
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Analysts downplay AI bubble worries as Altman says some investors will be left ‘very burnt’
The artificial intelligence boom that Sam Altman helped ignite with ChatGPT in late 2022 is starting to make even him uneasy. Startups with little more than a pitch deck are raising hundreds of millions. Valuations have become “insane.” Capital is chasing a “kernel of truth” with feverish speed. The OpenAI CEO still believes the long-term […]
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OpenAI’s Altman warns the U.S. is underestimating China’s next-gen AI threat
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that the U.S. may be underestimating the complexity and seriousness of China’s progress in artificial intelligence, and said export controls alone likely aren’t a reliable solution. “I’m worried about China,” he said. Over Mediterranean tapas in San Francisco’s Presidio — just five miles north of OpenAI’s original office in the […]
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When ‘invest like the 1%’ fails: How Yieldstreet’s real estate bets left customers with massive losses
Yieldstreet customer Justin Klish, who said he faces $400,000 in losses from investing on the platform. Courtesy: Justin Klish When Justin Klish stumbled upon an ad for Yieldstreet in February 2022, he said, it was the company’s tagline that stuck in his head. “Invest like the 1%,” the startup said. The ad spoke to his […]
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