2026-01-28
Altman, who's become close to Trump as he advocates for OpenAI and the AI industry, made sure to praise the president: “President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country.” 2/x https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment”
Sam Altman of OpenAI told employees in an internal Slack obtained by @andrewrsorkin and me that “what's happening with ICE is going too far,” as we reported in @dealbook today. We have the whole memo 1/x
New York Times
Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment”
2026-01-27
Sam Altman of OpenAI told employees in an internal Slack obtained by @andrewrsorkin and me that “what's happening with ICE is going too far,” as we reported in @dealbook today. We have the whole memo 1/x
New York Times
Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment”
Business leaders continue to feel pressure to speak out about the immigration crackdown and the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens.
Altman, who's become close to Trump as he advocates for OpenAI and the AI industry, made sure to praise the president: “President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country.” 2/x https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment”
Business leaders continue to feel pressure to speak out about the immigration crackdown and the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens.
2025-03-17
This is one of the stranger and more gripping tales of a software rivalry I've heard of recently: accusations of a mole, a “honeypot” trap and the alleged spy fleeing when confronted. (It's in today's @dealbook newsletter) It involves two HR competitors, Rippling and Deel 🧵
New York Times
HR service Rippling sues Deel, accusing its rival of hiring a mole in its Dublin office to comb through trade secrets, uncovered via a “honeypot” Slack channel
A lawsuit by Rippling accuses a top competitor, Deel, of placing a mole in its ranks — which it uncovered via a “honeypot” trap on Slack.
Rippling today sued Deel, accusing it of a “brazen act of corporate espionage.” The suit says Deel managed to plant a spy in its Dublin office, who systematically combed through Rippling's Slack channels, obtaining confidential competitive information.
New York Times
HR service Rippling sues Deel, accusing its rival of hiring a mole in its Dublin office to comb through trade secrets, uncovered via a “honeypot” Slack channel
A lawsuit by Rippling accuses a top competitor, Deel, of placing a mole in its ranks — which it uncovered via a “honeypot” trap on Slack.
2021-05-24
This is certainly a sign of a healthy M&A market: https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Study: among 44 tech startups that completed a SPAC deal from the start of 2020 through April 2021, their share prices had fallen 12.6% on average by May 17
Entrepreneurs are increasingly wary about the money-raising tool after watching peers' stocks slide and investors balk
2020-08-26
The backstory behind Microsoft's bid for TikTok: from a potential small investment to the world's most closely watched (potential) big deal, as told by @MikeIsaac @andrewrsorkin and crew https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How Microsoft's talks with TikTok ballooned from a small investment into a big, messy, closely watched political soap opera after Trump's intervention
Neither side wanted a big deal. But what began as talks about a small investment ballooned with interventions from President Trump.