Fintech

OpenAI's latest $110 billion funding round suggests that the traditional piggy bank has been replaced by something closer to a black hole with a very polite pitch deck.

In which we examine the curious case of an OpenAI employee who mistook corporate confidentiality for a particularly lucrative tip at the digital races.

Plaid, the fintech firm that acts as the invisible connective tissue between your bank account and your questionable spending habits, has reached an $8 billion valuation, proving that being a middleman is still the most lucrative profession in the digital age.

Accenture adds Mistral AI to its growing gallery of digital associates, proving that in the world of high-level consulting, one can never have too many ways to say the same thing automatically.

In which we examine the curious trend of treating multi-million dollar microchips like a set of Victorian silver spoons at a high-stakes pawnbroker.

As Salesforce's Marc Benioff dismisses the impending doom of the software industry, we examine the curious human habit of predicting the end of the world every time a new algorithm learns to make a decent cup of tea.

In a move that suggests the fintech industry has finally run out of new ideas and has begun the polite process of eating itself, Stripe is reportedly eyeing a deal to acquire its own ancestor, PayPal.

Meta’s recent $100 billion dalliance with AMD suggests that the path to superintelligence is paved with enough silicon to tile the surface of a medium-sized European principality.

In which a very expensive glass fence meets a very persistent European bureaucrat with a pair of wire cutters.

As 700 million users prepare for the Year of the Snake, Baidu introduces a digital claw to help them navigate the festivities, proving that nothing says 'Happy New Year' like a sophisticated algorithm with a slightly menacing name.

Meridian has raised $17 million to transform the humble spreadsheet into an 'agentic' workforce, finally allowing your pivot tables to have an existential crisis.