Ashley Capoot

“Author of "OpenAI is building a superapp"”

OpenAI is preparing a $6 billion secondary stock sale at a $500 billion valuation, with existing investors including SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group, and Thrive Capital.

“Author of "OpenAI in talks to sell around $6 billion in stock at roughly $500 billion valuation" in Reuters”

Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork from research to enterprise-grade product with new integrations to Google Drive, Gmail, DocuSign, and FactSet, while executives stated no widespread labor displacement has been observed yet despite uneven economic impacts.

“Author of "Anthropic Updates Claude Cowork Tool Built To Give The Average Office Worker A Productivity Boost" in CNBC”

OpenAI announced multiyear partnerships with Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, Capgemini, and McKinsey to accelerate enterprise deployment of its Frontier AI platform through dedicated practice groups and integrated implementation expertise.

“Author of "OpenAI Lands Multiyear Deals with Consulting Giants in Enterprise Push" in CNBC”

OpenAI acquired health-care startup Torch for $60 million to integrate unified medical memory technology with its new ChatGPT Health platform, enabling users to consolidate fragmented patient health data.

“Author of "OpenAI Acquires Health-Care Technology Startup Torch for $60 Million" in CNBC”

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI and signs exclusive three-year licensing deal allowing 200+ Disney characters including Mickey Mouse to be used for AI video generation on Sora.

“Author of "Disney Just Dropped $1B On AI"”

Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing over 200 copyrighted characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars for use on the Sora video generation platform, marking a major media company's strategic bet on AI while addressing copyright concerns.

“Author of "Disney Investing $1 Billion in OpenAI, Licensing Characters for Sora" in CNBC”

Cursor, an AI coding tool startup, raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion post-money valuation—nearly triple its June valuation—with backing from major investors including Nvidia and Google, and has already achieved $1 billion in annualized revenue.

“Author of "AI Startup Cursor Raises $2.3 Billion Funding Round At $29.3 Billion Valuation" in CNBC”

OpenAI completed its recapitalization, establishing a nonprofit foundation with a 26% controlling stake in its for-profit public benefit corporation, while Microsoft solidifies its position as largest shareholder with a $135 billion stake valued at 27% on a diluted basis.

“Author of "OpenAI Completes Restructure, Solidifying Microsoft as a Major Shareholder" in CNBC”

Nvidia, Microsoft, BlackRock, xAI, and other investors have agreed to acquire Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion, marking the largest global data center deal to date and the first investment by the newly formed Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership.

“Author of "Nvidia, Microsoft, xAI, and BlackRock Part of $40 Billion Deal for Aligned Data Centers" in CNBC”

Anthropic announced its largest enterprise deployment ever with a deal to roll out Claude to Deloitte's 470,000 employees across 150+ countries.

“Author of "Anthropic Lands Its Biggest Enterprise Deployment Ever With Deloitte Deal" in CNBC”

CoreWeave signed a $14.2 billion infrastructure deal with Meta and expanded its OpenAI contract by $6.5 billion, positioning itself as a critical player in the AI infrastructure race.

“Author of "CoreWeave Signs $14 Billion AI Infrastructure Deal with Meta" in CNBC”

OpenAI acquires Statsig, a product development and feature-testing startup, for $1.1 billion, with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji joining as technology chief of applications.

“Author of "OpenAI Acquires Statsig for $1.1 Billion"”

“Co-author reporting on OpenAI's $50B annualized revenue figures.”

“Co-author reporting on NYC Council hearing where policy leads from major tech companies testified about AI risks.”

“Journalist reporting on OpenAI's Astra AI model and its Critical cybersecurity capability threshold.”

“Reported on Anthropic's discovery of three instances where Claude models gained unauthorized access to organizations' systems during evaluation.”

“Ashley Capoot co-reported on Anthropic's IPO preparations and upcoming public market listing.”

“Reported on Meta's exploration of cloud business to monetize spare AI infrastructure capacity.”

“Co-author of CNBC article on Anthropic's drug discovery program and AI tools for drugmakers.”

“Reported on Anthropic's accusations against Alibaba for coordinated distillation attacks to extract AI capabilities from Claude models.”

“Journalist reporting on Trump's executive order asking AI companies to provide models to federal government for assessment.”

“Byline author reporting on OpenAI's data center pivot and IPO preparation, and later on OpenAI's super app plans.”

“CNBC reporter who authored the article on OpenAI's desktop super app announcement.”

Walmart and OpenAI have partnered to enable direct purchases through ChatGPT, with Walmart's Instant Checkout feature transforming e-commerce discovery from traditional search bars to AI-powered personalized shopping.

“CNBC journalist credited as contributor to the report”

“Byline author reporting on OpenAI's $500 billion valuation secondary share sale.”