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What You Missed This Week:
1. 🤑 OpenAI eyes massive $100B funding round
Early-stage discussions are underway to raise as much as $100 billion in new funding, a move that could value OpenAI at roughly $830 billion, according to reporting cited by TechCrunch. The talks reportedly involve potential sovereign wealth investors and are still preliminary. The capital would support OpenAI’s rapidly growing infrastructure and compute needs as competition in AI intensifies. (Tech Crunch)
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3. 🕰️ Nasdaq Is Thinking About 24/7 Trading
Finance bros may not be able to slam their laptops shut at 5 pm because trading hours might become a thing of the past, if Nasdaq gets their way. According to an SEC filing, the tech-heavy exchange is pushing to add another trading session for U.S. stocks from 9pm to 4am ET, which would bring total trading hours to 23 hours a day, five days a week with a one-hour daily break from 8-9pm. (Quartz)
4. ✨ Google’s Vibe-Coding Tool Opal is Heading to Gemini
A new feature called Opal is rolling into Gemini, letting users build simple apps and workflows using natural-language prompts instead of traditional code. Previously available through Google Labs, the tool is designed to lower the barrier to software creation. The move reflects Google’s broader push to turn Gemini into a more hands-on, creator-friendly AI platform. (Tech Crunch)
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6. 🇺🇸 TikTok Has Finally Reached a U.S. Selloff Deal
Well, kinda. Behind the scenes, a U.S.-based investor consortium is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok’s American operations, a move that could keep the app alive domestically. The group is said to include existing U.S. stakeholders and together, the companies will own 45% of the U.S. operation. The negotiations surface as TikTok races against a divest-or-ban deadline in the U.S. (Reuters)
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