Startups
OpenAI Buys Jony Ive AI Device Startup For $6.5 Billion — new products unlike iPhone TBA 2026
2025 Fintech Trends Are Looking up: Growth & dealmaking for fintech pros; cool innovation from Startups, Big Banks, and Big Tech for consumers.
Adam Neumann’s new startup Flow is WeWork for housing, and also solves remote work isolation
The future of living has working integrated into it.
"Always Sunny in Philadelphia" creator Rob McElhenney has way more businesses than just "Welcome to Wrexham." Here’s a rundown of a Hollywood mogul in the making.

If buyer commissions are 3% on today's median prices for existing ($379,100) or newly built ($420,700) homes, that's $11,373 or $12,621 in extra closing fees for buyers.
Steven Mnuchin explains how and why he might buy TikTok. Watch his CNBC rundown of the deal.
While media keeps pushing the San Francisco doom loop, the city leads the world in AI. This Bloomberg video explains.
A deep dive by Linette Lopez on how Tesla, Ford, and GM are in trouble as China’s EV engine roars
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gives Sam Altman his own AI division. OpenAI brings in new CEO but hundreds at the firm want to join Altman.
The Verge now reports Altman and OpenAI board are in talks, and that Altman is “ambivalent” about returning and wants governance changes.
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati replaces Sam Altman as CEO for now. Here’s more on her resume.
In bankruptcy petition, WeWork listed about $15b in assets, $18b+ in debt, and It also has around $100m in unpaid rent
Basecamp founder and startup pundit Jason Fried masters startup punditry by telling startups not to listen to startup pundits. Masterful indeed.
Jackson Fall started an affiliate marketing site with $100 by doing what ChatGPT told him. Great marketing but is it great money?
Bank analyst Tom Brown notes there are 704 active unicorns with a combined valuation of $2.4t. Since beginning of 2022, unicorn sales have totaled $39.6b, which make it the lowest year since 2015.

