Ashley Capoot

Excited to share I’ve been promoted from Associate Reporter to Reporter @CNBC! Many thanks to everyone who has supported me and read my work so far. I’m still covering health tech and breaking tech news 👩‍💻 Get in touch at [email protected] or on Signal at ashleycapoot.22!

Whoop says FDA is 'overstepping its authority' with warning about blood pressure feature cnbc.com/2025/07/15/who…

New: Scale AI cuts 14% of workforce after Meta investment, hiring of founder Wang cnbc.com/2025/07/16/sca…

Amazon-backed Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for financial services cnbc.com/2025/07/15/cla…

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raises $2 billion for new AI startup Thinking Machines Lab cnbc.com/2025/07/15/ope…

The twists keep coming! AI startup Cognition announced it’s acquiring Windsurf, the AI coding company that lost its CEO and several other senior employees to Google just days earlier. cnbc.com/2025/07/14/cog…

Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026 cnbc.com/2025/07/14/met…

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI granted up to $200 million for AI work from Defense Department cnbc.com/2025/07/14/ant…

New: Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk’s X cnbc.com/2025/07/09/lin…

Ilya Sutskever becomes the CEO of Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI; Meta reportedly poached previous CEO Daniel Gross (@ashleycapoot / CNBC) cnbc.com/2025/07/03/ily… techmeme.com/250703/p26#a25…

New: OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said he will assume the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence. The announcement comes after Meta poached Daniel Gross, a longtime entrepreneur and AI investor who had been acting as the chief executive. cnbc.com/2025/07/03/ily…

New: Scale AI’s Interim CEO Jason Droege said in a memo on Wednesday that the AI startup is not changing course following Meta’s multibillion-dollar investment in the company last week. cnbc.com/2025/06/18/sca…

OpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, whose founder is joining Meta cnbc.com/2025/06/18/ope…

Pain management startup Sword Health expands into mental health, raises $40 million cnbc.com/2025/06/17/swo…

Scoop: Amazon is reorganizing its health business into six "pillars" after a series of executive departures at the company. The company has tapped a slate of longtime Amazon leaders and One Medical executives to oversee the divisions. w/ @annierpalmer! cnbc.com/2025/06/13/ama…

In Scale AI's Alexandr Wang, Zuckerberg may have found Meta's wartime AI leader cnbc.com/2025/06/10/zuc… by @JonathanVanian and @ashleycapoot

Exclusive w/ @Kr00ney: OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its popular ChatGPT chatbot. cnbc.com/2025/06/09/ope…

Virtual chronic care company Omada Health closed up 21% in its Nasdaq debut after raising about $150M in its IPO, valuing the company at just over $1B (@ashleycapoot / CNBC) cnbc.com/2025/06/06/oma… techmeme.com/250606/p21#a25…

New: Omada Health priced its IPO at $19 per share on Thursday, in the middle of the expected range. The virtual chronic care company said in a press release that 7.9 million shares are being sold in the offering, amounting to $150 million. cnbc.com/2025/06/05/oma…

3M+ business users now use chatgpt at work today we're rolling out a number of features for work, including: *new connectors for deep research and chat *MCP support for custom connectors *record mode for meeting transcripts/notes/follow-ups *flexible pricing with credits for…

OpenAI tops 3 million paying business users, launches new features for workplace cnbc.com/2025/06/04/ope…