Ashley Capoot
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now: health tech reporter @CNBC | then: @NorthwesternU | signal: ashleycapoot.22 (no pitches)
Joined April 2019
NEW: Do not go public. Do not acquire or be acquired. Software must work. CNBC sat down with Judy Faulkner, the founder and CEO of Epic, in a rare interview. Here's a look at how she built the company into the health-care software giant it is today. https://t.co/pDkUWzhoVZ
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Judy Faulkner has run Epic Systems for 46 years and has a detailed plan for what happens when she's no longer the boss.
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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors' copyright lawsuit
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Authors had sued Anthropic, claiming the artificial intelligence startup had illegally used their books to train its models.
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Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by "hundreds of millions" (@ashleycapoot / CNBC) https://t.co/dKDGsKVXmz
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by “hundreds of millions”
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New: OpenAI is increasing the size of its secondary share sale to $10.3 billion, up from the $6 billion it was initially targeting, CNBC has learned. OpenAI presented the offer to employees on Wednesday. More with @KenzieSigalos here! https://t.co/Shvscdxsnf
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OpenAI is allowing current and former employees to sell more than $10 billion worth of stock in a secondary share sale.
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New: Google’s AI stumbles, ChatGPT’s emergence ‘changed the course’ of antitrust case https://t.co/5KhMMUTD3a
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Shares of Google rose in extended trading on Tuesday after the company dodged the worst-possible outcome from the antitrust case it lost last year.
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OpenAI acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion, brings on CEO as applications executive
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Statsig will continue to operate independently and serve customers out of its Seattle office, OpenAI said.
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Anthropic raises $13 billion funding round at $183 billion valuation
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Anthropic's valuation has tripled since its last funding round in March
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New: Epic's annual Users Group Meeting is in full swing, and artificial intelligence is all the rage again this year. Epic has roughly 200 different AI features in development, including an AI scribing tool it's building with Microsoft. More here! 👽🛸 https://t.co/j8NaGJzuPs
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Epic says it's developing roughly 200 different AI features for patients, clinicians and insurers.
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New: What do Windsurf, Scale AI and Adept have in common? They’re part of a growing crop of AI startups whose founders and top researchers have been poached by megacaps. @sal19, @annierpalmer and I took a closer look at some of these deals. https://t.co/RJ7b5hARyq
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Unable to make big AI purchases because of regulatory hurdles, tech giants have spent billions to buy top talent from startups, leaving behind shell companies.
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Check out @ashleycapoot’s epic Epic profile - and learn for the first time who is the likely successor to the company’s 82-year-old CEO Bill Gates meets Willy Wonka: How Epic's 82-year-old billionaire CEO, Judy Faulkner, built her software factory
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Judy Faulkner has run Epic Systems for 46 years and has a detailed plan for what happens when she's no longer the boss.
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OpenAI in talks to sell around $6 billion in stock at roughly $500 billion valuation
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The talks are still in early stages and the details could change.
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very normal stuff
Perplexity offers to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion
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C3 AI stock falls 30% as CEO Siebel calls preliminary sales numbers 'completely unacceptable'
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C3 AI shares tumbled after it announced preliminary financial results and a restructuring of its global sales and services organization.
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Following up on last week’s big news — Pathway has joined the Doximity family! Read more in this @CNBC piece by @ashleycapoot.
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Pathway's AI-powered clinical reference tool helps doctors answer questions about guidelines, drugs and trials.
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Omada Health beats on revenue in first earnings report since IPO
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The company offers virtual care programs to support patients with chronic conditions.
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Doximity buys Pathway Medical for $63 million to help doctors get AI-powered answers
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Pathway's AI-powered clinical reference tool helps doctors answer questions about guidelines, drugs and trials.
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New: GPT-5 is here! And @OpenAI is making it available to everyone, including its free users. OpenAI said the model is smarter, faster and "a lot more useful," particularly across domains like writing, coding and health care. Details here: https://t.co/JZ7pQJPnOe
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OpenAI announced GPT-5, its latest and most advanced AI model.
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OpenAI is giving ChatGPT to the government for $1
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OpenAI said agencies will get access to its frontier models through ChatGPT Enterprise, and it will also offer access to features like Advanced Voice Mode.
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OpenAI in talks with investors about share sale at $500 billion valuation
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OpenAI's private stock is in such high demand that the company is looking to potentially conduct a secondary share sale at a $500 billion valuation.
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Hinge Health stock pops 10% after first quarterly report since IPO
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The company reported quarterly results for the first time since its debut on the New York Stock Exchange in May.
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