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OpenAI partners with Customers Bank to automate finance

By Stacey D. WallsApril 27, 2026

Sam Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank.Courtesy of: Customer BankNearly half an hour into a conference call Friday to discuss first-quarter…

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OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for undisclosed amount; Hiro is stopping new registrations, will close its doors on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 14, 2026

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for undisclosed amount; Hiro is stopping new registrations, will…

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Drones caused the shutdown of a Qatari helium-producing energy center; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says closed hub accounts for about 33% of global helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 14, 2026

Inès Ferré / Yahoo Finance: Drones caused the shutdown of a Qatari helium-producing energy center; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says…

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SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40 billion, its largest ever loan denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 6, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Slop’s Hard Fork Review The future is…

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India approves $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling an effort launched in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 14, 2026

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India approves a $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and…

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Asset-backed finance is growing rapidly and drawing new scrutiny

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 2, 2025

A version of this article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Alts newsletter, a guide to the fast-growing world of alternative investments,…

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U.S. BNPL usage has grown to 91.5 million users, 25% of whom finance groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans go unreported, creating ‘phantom debt’ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 17, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots and why the world’s models are next | Dr.…

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banks prepare to launch $38 billion debt sale to finance Oracle data centers, including $23.25 billion for a Texas data center and $14.75 billion for a Wisconsin site (Jeannine Amodeo/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 24, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser The future is…

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OPENAI’s IT agreements with NVIDIA, AMD, Oracle and others exceeded $ 1 t $, commitments that overshadow his income and raised questions about how he can finance them (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 7, 2025

Financial time:: OPENAI’s IT agreements with NVIDIA, AMD, Oracle and others have exceeded 1 t $, commitments that overshadow his…

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Sam Altman says that Openai “totally screwed up certain things” on the deployment of the GPT-5, confirms the plans to finance a brain interface startup to compete with Neuralink (Alex Heath / The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 15, 2025

Featured podcasts Hard Fork: GPT-5 Backlash + CEO of perplexity Aravind Srinivas on the Wars + Hot Mess Express browser…

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Musk v. Altman: In closing arguments, Musk’s lawyer doubled down on claims of Altman’s unreliability, while OpenAI’s lawyer said Musk had no proof (Associated Press)

OpenAI adds remote access to Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, allowing users to control Codex sessions running on a connected computer directly from a phone (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

A look at GameStop’s takeover bid for eBay, a bizarre job request from GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen, who doesn’t have the money to buy eBay, to become CEO of eBay (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

Anthropic and the Gates Foundation pledge $200 million to use AI in health and education initiatives; the foundation signed a similar $50 million deal with OpenAI in January (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

Klarna reports first-quarter revenue up 44% year-over-year to $1.01 billion, above estimate, GMV up 33% to $33.7 billion, active customers up 20% to $119 million and profit of $1 million, up from a loss of $99 million year-over-year (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

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OpenAI partners with Customers Bank to automate finance

OpenAI acquires personal finance startup Hiro Finance for undisclosed amount; Hiro is stopping new registrations, will close its doors on April 20 and delete all data on May 13 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Drones caused the shutdown of a Qatari helium-producing energy center; crucial in chipmaking, Bloomberg says closed hub accounts for about 33% of global helium production (Ines Ferré/Yahoo Finance)

SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40 billion, its largest ever loan denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI (Bloomberg)

India approves $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling an effort launched in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Asset-backed finance is growing rapidly and drawing new scrutiny

U.S. BNPL usage has grown to 91.5 million users, 25% of whom finance groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans go unreported, creating ‘phantom debt’ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

banks prepare to launch $38 billion debt sale to finance Oracle data centers, including $23.25 billion for a Texas data center and $14.75 billion for a Wisconsin site (Jeannine Amodeo/Bloomberg)

OPENAI’s IT agreements with NVIDIA, AMD, Oracle and others exceeded $ 1 t $, commitments that overshadow his income and raised questions about how he can finance them (Financial Times)

Sam Altman says that Openai “totally screwed up certain things” on the deployment of the GPT-5, confirms the plans to finance a brain interface startup to compete with Neuralink (Alex Heath / The Verge)