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May 6, 2026

💰Brockman discloses $30 billion OpenAI stake


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💰 Brockman discloses $30 billion OpenAI stake


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💼 Coinbase cuts 14% of staff citing AI


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💰️ Anthropic’s AI agents for finance work


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📱 OpenAI fast-tracks ‘AI agent phone’


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💰 Brockman discloses $30 billion OpenAI stake

  • OpenAI President Greg Brockman testified Monday that his equity stake in the company is worth nearly $30 billion.

  • He disclosed significant financial ties to Sam Altman, including an interest in Altman’s personal investment fund since 2017 and holdings in AI chipmaker Cerebras and fusion startup Helion Energy.

  • Musk’s lawyers argue these links compromise Brockman’s independence as the lawsuit — which seeks $150 billion in damages and a return of OpenAI to nonprofit status — continues.


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💼 Coinbase cuts 14% of staff citing AI

  • Coinbase is cutting roughly 700 jobs — about 14% of its workforce — as CEO Brian Armstrong restructures the company amid crypto market volatility and a stronger push into AI tools.

  • The reorganization flattens the company to five layers below the CEO and COO, raises the number of direct reports per leader, and introduces “one-person teams” that combine engineering, design, and product roles using AI.

  • The layoffs are expected to cost the company between $50 million and $60 million in severance.


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💰️ Anthropic’s AI agents for finance work

  • Anthropic has unveiled 10 specialized, ready-to-run AI agents targeted at financial services and insurance companies.

  • These agents can autonomously handle high-value tasks such as building pitch books, screening KYC files, and reviewing earnings and valuations.

  • Each agent includes built-in domain expertise, data connectors, and Claude models, and can be easily customized to a firm’s specific policies and workflows while keeping users fully in the loop 24/7.


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📱 OpenAI fast-tracks ‘AI agent phone’

  • OpenAI is speeding up development of its first AI smartphone, with mass production now targeted for the first half of 2027 — a full year earlier than previously reported, according to Ming-Chi Kuo.

  • The accelerated timeline is reportedly driven by OpenAI’s IPO ambitions and intensifying competition in the AI phone market.


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  • Microsoft expanded its Copilot Cowork agentic system to iOS and Android.

  • Apple agreed to pay some U.S. iPhone buyers a collective $250M to settle a class action lawsuit.

  • Perplexity AI launched Computer for Professional Finance, bringing licensed data and 35 dedicated workflows.

  • California startup Span is teaming up with Nvidia to install mini AI data centers on the walls of residential homes.

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