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OpenAI, Musk and Focus

By Martin Peers · Mar 17, 2026 5:00pm PDT

OpenAI has decided the “everything everywhere all at once” strategy isn’t ideal, after all. As we and others reported on Monday night, senior OpenAI executive Fidji Simo told staffers last week that the company needed to “refocus on business customers and cut down on side quests that were becoming a distraction.” (Is that the understatement of... OpenAI has decided the “everything everywhere all at once” strategy isn’t ideal, after all. As we...

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The AI Worries Keeping Investors Up at Night

By Julia Hornstein · Mar 17, 2026 3:45pm PDT

It’s no surprise that if you bring hundreds of venture capitalists and limited partners together in 2026, most will have bought into AI—literally. So it was interesting to hear what investors gathered in Santa Monica, Calif., last week for March Capital’s annual The Montgomery Summit thought were the AI boom’s weak links. Take Matt... It’s no surprise that if you bring hundreds of venture capitalists and limited partners together...

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Palantir Has What OpenAI and Anthropic Want

By Laura Bratton · Mar 17, 2026 12:50pm PDT

Anthropic and OpenAI have leaned heavily into serving businesses with AI agents that automate white collar tasks and software that helps businesses manage these agents. The two AI developers are even competing to sign up private equity firms to create joint ventures that would sell AI to the PE firms’ portfolio companies, my colleagues... Anthropic and OpenAI have leaned heavily into serving businesses with AI agents that automate...

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CoinDesk Revenue Slowed Before Sale to Bullish

By Aidan Ryan · Nov 29, 2023 10:34am PST

Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group announced last week that it sold its crypto news subsidiary CoinDesk to the crypto exchange Bullish. Silbert said in a tweet that the sale made CoinDesk, which DCG bought for $500,000 in 2016, “one of our best investments of all time,” but the sale price was not disclosed and could not be learned.What is... Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group announced last week that it sold its crypto news...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao leaves the U.S. District Court on Nov. 21 in Seattle. Photo by David Ryder/Getty.

One Binance Saga Comes to a Close

By Aidan Ryan · Nov 22, 2023 9:15am PST · 2 comments

Just when it felt like crypto could coast into Thanksgiving with OpenAI drama dominating headlines, U.S. officials barged in with a settlement in long-running investigations into Binance.The deal is on one hand a seismic shift for the world’s biggest crypto exchange. (You can view our updated Binance org chart here.) Its founder Changpeng Zhao... Just when it felt like crypto could coast into Thanksgiving with OpenAI drama dominating...