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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images.
The Briefing

What’s Behind OpenAI’s Hedged IPO Bet

By Martin Peers · Jun 9, 2026 5:00pm PDT
Can OpenAI do anything simply? Many companies, when publicly acknowledging the possibility of an IPO, emphasize that the final decision will depend in part on “market conditions.” That’s what OpenAI’s rival Anthropic did last week. But the ChatGPT firm chose to be more cryptic. Revealing its confidential IPO filing on Monday, OpenAI said it... Can OpenAI do anything simply? Many companies, when publicly acknowledging the possibility of an...
Gas turbines next to Oracle and OpenAI's Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas. Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images
AI Infrastructure

Developers of OpenAI’s Stargate Data Center Face Higher Costs

By Ann Davis Vaughan · Jun 8, 2026 8:00am PDT
On a dusty stretch of prairie in Abilene, Texas, anxious hardware engineers from Crusoe, a data center developer for OpenAI and Oracle, have been working overtime to get natural gas turbines to work harmoniously with one of the most expensive AI supercomputers in history.It has proven harder and more costly than expected, according to two people... On a dusty stretch of prairie in Abilene, Texas, anxious hardware engineers from Crusoe, a data...
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Exclusive

Goldman, JPMorgan Explore Trading Compute Futures as AI Financing Hedge

By Yueqi Yang and Dakin Campbell · Jun 8, 2026 7:30am PDT
Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are exploring ways to trade on the cost of computing power, according to people familiar with the matter. That includes trading futures contracts tied to rental prices for graphics processing units, among the scarcest resources of the AI boom, which exchanges plan to list later this year. The discussions show how the... Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are exploring ways to trade on the cost of computing power, according...
CoinDesk CEO Kevin Worth. Photo by Bloomberg via Getty.
Crypto Global

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.
Crypto Global

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...
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Crypto Global

Another Fintech Drops Crypto

By Aidan Ryan · Nov 15, 2023 9:06am PST
Crypto prices have been creeping up over the past month, fueling hope that the crypto winter could be thawing. But some trading and investing apps have already thrown in the towel. I reported earlier this week that Stash, an app that offers stock, ETF and crypto trading, is pulling the plug on its crypto trading service in December. The... Crypto prices have been creeping up over the past month, fueling hope that the crypto winter...