Ashley Capoot
@ashleycapoot.cnbc.com
AI reporter at CNBC | signal: ashleycapoot.22
Excited to attend my first NeurIPS conference with @cnbc.com in a couple weeks! 🕺🏻
If you’re a researcher, engineer or work in AI, would love to meet up! Shoot me a DM or a message on Signal @ ashleycapoot.22
If you’re a researcher, engineer or work in AI, would love to meet up! Shoot me a DM or a message on Signal @ ashleycapoot.22
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Excited to attend my first NeurIPS conference with @cnbc.com in a couple weeks! 🕺🏻
If you’re a researcher, engineer or work in AI, would love to meet up! Shoot me a DM or a message on Signal @ ashleycapoot.22
If you’re a researcher, engineer or work in AI, would love to meet up! Shoot me a DM or a message on Signal @ ashleycapoot.22
Exclusive: Five months after Scale AI’s high-profile founder joined Meta in a blockbuster deal, the startup’s CFO Dennis Cinelli says the company is alive and well.
I sat down with Cinelli in his first interview since joining Scale in 2022. Details here!
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/s...
I sat down with Cinelli in his first interview since joining Scale in 2022. Details here!
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/s...
Scale AI's life after Meta deal has been rocky, but CFO insists it's not a 'zombie company'
Five months after Scale AI's high-profile founder was hired by Meta, the startup is trying to show that it's still on a growth trajectory.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Exclusive: Five months after Scale AI’s high-profile founder joined Meta in a blockbuster deal, the startup’s CFO Dennis Cinelli says the company is alive and well.
I sat down with Cinelli in his first interview since joining Scale in 2022. Details here!
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/s...
I sat down with Cinelli in his first interview since joining Scale in 2022. Details here!
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/s...
New: The AI boom is lifting the economy and has pushed the stock market to record highs.
But the broader economy tells a very different story as businesses struggle to deal with high costs from tariffs and a downbeat consumer.
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But the broader economy tells a very different story as businesses struggle to deal with high costs from tariffs and a downbeat consumer.
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AI spending is boosting the economy, but many businesses are in survival mode
As AI lifts the economy and stock market, businesses in retail, travel and construction are struggling with high costs and a downbeat consumer.
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October 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New: The AI boom is lifting the economy and has pushed the stock market to record highs.
But the broader economy tells a very different story as businesses struggle to deal with high costs from tariffs and a downbeat consumer.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/a...
But the broader economy tells a very different story as businesses struggle to deal with high costs from tariffs and a downbeat consumer.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/a...
New: Anthropic announced Claude Haiku 4.5, a small AI model that’s available as a lower-cost offering for all of the company’s users.
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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 4.5, a smaller, cheaper AI model
The launch comes just weeks after Anthropic announced Claude Sonnet 4.5 in September
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October 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
New: Anthropic announced Claude Haiku 4.5, a small AI model that’s available as a lower-cost offering for all of the company’s users.
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Exclusive: Deloitte on Monday announced a deal to bring Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees around the globe.
It's Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment to date. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/a...
It's Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment to date. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/a...
Anthropic lands its biggest enterprise deployment ever with Deloitte deal
Deloitte is rolling out Anthropic's Claude to more than 470,000 employees across 150 countries.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Exclusive: Deloitte on Monday announced a deal to bring Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees around the globe.
It's Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment to date. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/a...
It's Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment to date. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/a...
We are bloggin! Keep up with @cnbc.com today for all things OpenAI DevDay
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OpenAI DevDay live: Altman's keynote and comments from Jony Ive at the AI startup's flagship event
Fresh off an AI chip deal with AMD, OpenAI makes its case to developers about the latest in research, product and engineering.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We are bloggin! Keep up with @cnbc.com today for all things OpenAI DevDay
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New: Users are posting AI-generated videos of popular brands and animated characters on OpenAI’s new Sora app.
I got access and was able to see (and generate!) many familiar faces myself. Here's why experts think that could be a problem for OpenAI.
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I got access and was able to see (and generate!) many familiar faces myself. Here's why experts think that could be a problem for OpenAI.
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AI Sam Altman and the Sora copyright gamble: 'I hope Nintendo doesn't sue us'
CNBC has seen videos of characters from shows like "SpongeBob SquarePants" on the platform and was able to independently generate other characters.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
New: Users are posting AI-generated videos of popular brands and animated characters on OpenAI’s new Sora app.
I got access and was able to see (and generate!) many familiar faces myself. Here's why experts think that could be a problem for OpenAI.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/04/s...
I got access and was able to see (and generate!) many familiar faces myself. Here's why experts think that could be a problem for OpenAI.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/04/s...
New: OpenAI has been inking infrastructure deals valued in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars. Some analysts are beginning to raise red flags.
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A look at OpenAI's tangled web of dealmaking
OpenAI's Sam Altman has put himself in the center of the tech universe through a series of mammoth deals.
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September 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New: OpenAI has been inking infrastructure deals valued in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars. Some analysts are beginning to raise red flags.
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Today is my first official day as @cnbc.com's AI reporter! Very excited to dive in during this boring and uneventful time 😄🥳🤠
I still have tons to learn, so please get in touch at ashley.capoot@versantmedia.com or on Signal at ashleycapoot.22. I’ll be spending lots more time in the Bay Area, too!
I still have tons to learn, so please get in touch at ashley.capoot@versantmedia.com or on Signal at ashleycapoot.22. I’ll be spending lots more time in the Bay Area, too!
September 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Today is my first official day as @cnbc.com's AI reporter! Very excited to dive in during this boring and uneventful time 😄🥳🤠
I still have tons to learn, so please get in touch at ashley.capoot@versantmedia.com or on Signal at ashleycapoot.22. I’ll be spending lots more time in the Bay Area, too!
I still have tons to learn, so please get in touch at ashley.capoot@versantmedia.com or on Signal at ashleycapoot.22. I’ll be spending lots more time in the Bay Area, too!
New: OpenAI's nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100 billion.
It also signed a non-binding MOU with Microsoft, which outlines the next phase of their partnership.
Deets here 💸
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It also signed a non-binding MOU with Microsoft, which outlines the next phase of their partnership.
Deets here 💸
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/o...
OpenAI says nonprofit parent will own equity stake in company of over $100 billion
OpenAI said that its nonprofit parent will continue to oversee the company and have a very large stake in its future.
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September 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
New: OpenAI's nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100 billion.
It also signed a non-binding MOU with Microsoft, which outlines the next phase of their partnership.
Deets here 💸
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/o...
It also signed a non-binding MOU with Microsoft, which outlines the next phase of their partnership.
Deets here 💸
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/o...
Scoop: Verily, a health tech subsidiary of Alphabet, repeatedly breached HIPAA by using the health data of more than 25,000 patients in its research, marketing campaigns, press releases and national conferences w/o authorization, a lawsuit from a former executive says.
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Alphabet's Verily covered up HIPAA violations, whistleblower says in lawsuit
Verily hired Sloan in 2020 to serve as the chief commercial officer of its diabetes and hypertension business, Onduo.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Scoop: Verily, a health tech subsidiary of Alphabet, repeatedly breached HIPAA by using the health data of more than 25,000 patients in its research, marketing campaigns, press releases and national conferences w/o authorization, a lawsuit from a former executive says.
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/a...
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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.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/16/h...
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.
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Bill Gates meets Willy Wonka: How Epic's 82-year-old billionaire CEO, Judy Faulkner, built her software factory
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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August 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/16/h...
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.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/16/h...
New: GPT-5 is here! And OpenAI is making it available to everyone, including its free users.
The company said the AI model is smarter, faster and "a lot more useful," particularly across domains like writing, coding and health care.
Details here:
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The company said the AI model is smarter, faster and "a lot more useful," particularly across domains like writing, coding and health care.
Details here:
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/o...
OpenAI launches new GPT-5 model for all ChatGPT users
OpenAI announced GPT-5, its latest and most advanced AI model.
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August 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New: GPT-5 is here! And OpenAI is making it available to everyone, including its free users.
The company said the AI model is smarter, faster and "a lot more useful," particularly across domains like writing, coding and health care.
Details here:
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/o...
The company said the AI model is smarter, faster and "a lot more useful," particularly across domains like writing, coding and health care.
Details here:
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/o...
New: Linda Yaccarino, the former chief executive of Elon Musk’s social media platform X, is pivoting into health care.
She's been named CEO of eMed, which is part of the growing group of companies trying to capitalize on the sky-high demand for GLP-1s.
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She's been named CEO of eMed, which is part of the growing group of companies trying to capitalize on the sky-high demand for GLP-1s.
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Former X CEO Linda Yaccarino takes helm at digital health company eMed
Yaccarino stepped down as CEO of Elon Musk's social media platform X in July.
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August 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New: Linda Yaccarino, the former chief executive of Elon Musk’s social media platform X, is pivoting into health care.
She's been named CEO of eMed, which is part of the growing group of companies trying to capitalize on the sky-high demand for GLP-1s.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/f...
She's been named CEO of eMed, which is part of the growing group of companies trying to capitalize on the sky-high demand for GLP-1s.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/05/f...
New: Scale AI cuts 14% of workforce after Meta investment, hiring of founder Wang
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Scale AI cuts 14% of workforce after Meta investment, hiring of founder Wang
Scale AI said it's cutting 14% of its staff weeks after Meta invested $14.3 billion in the startup and hired a number of top staffers.
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July 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New: Scale AI cuts 14% of workforce after Meta investment, hiring of founder Wang
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A supercluster is a large, complex computing network that’s designed to train advanced AI models and handle their workloads. Zuckerberg said Meta’s first supercluster is called Prometheus, and that the company is building several other multi-gigawatt clusters.
Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026
Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest "hundreds of billions of dollars" into artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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July 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A supercluster is a large, complex computing network that’s designed to train advanced AI models and handle their workloads. Zuckerberg said Meta’s first supercluster is called Prometheus, and that the company is building several other multi-gigawatt clusters.
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.
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July 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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.
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New: Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk’s X www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/l...
Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X
Yaccarino's departure comes one day after Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok repeatedly made antisemitic comments.
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July 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
New: Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk’s X www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/l...
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.
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Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel Gross
Ilya Sutskever will assume the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI.
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July 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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.
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Scoop: Amazon is reorganizing its health business into six "pillars" after a series of executive departures at the company.
It has tapped a slate of longtime Amazon leaders and One Medical executives to oversee the divisions.
w/ @anniepalmer.bsky.social!
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It has tapped a slate of longtime Amazon leaders and One Medical executives to oversee the divisions.
w/ @anniepalmer.bsky.social!
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Amazon reorganizes health-care business in latest bid to crack multitrillion-dollar market
Amazon is reorganizing its health-care business into six "pillars" to simplify its structure in a market where it's spent billions of dollars on acquisitions.
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June 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Scoop: Amazon is reorganizing its health business into six "pillars" after a series of executive departures at the company.
It has tapped a slate of longtime Amazon leaders and One Medical executives to oversee the divisions.
w/ @anniepalmer.bsky.social!
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/a...
It has tapped a slate of longtime Amazon leaders and One Medical executives to oversee the divisions.
w/ @anniepalmer.bsky.social!
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/a...
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In Scale AI's Alexandr Wang, Zuckerberg may have found Meta's wartime AI leader www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/z...
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Zuckerberg makes his biggest AI bet as Meta nears $14 billion stake in Scale AI, hires founder Wang
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is bringing in Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to help the social media company better execute on its AI ambitions.
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June 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Exclusive w/ Kate Rooney: OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its popular ChatGPT chatbot.
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OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth
OpenAI is now generating $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, according to a company spokesperson
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June 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Exclusive w/ Kate Rooney: OpenAI has hit $10 billion in annual recurring revenue less than three years after launching its popular ChatGPT chatbot.
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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.
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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.
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Omada Health prices IPO at $19 per share, in middle of expected range
Omada Health is set to start trading on the Nasdaq, hitting the market a few weeks after Hinge Health, another emerging company in the space.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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.
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/o...
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.
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Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, 'unfair competition' - with @ashleycapoot.cnbc.com
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Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, 'unfair competition'
Reddit's lawsuit against Anthropic is the latest generative AI battle to find its way to the courtroom.
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June 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, 'unfair competition' - with @ashleycapoot.cnbc.com
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Omada Health: Hey Hinge, hold my beer...
Diabetes management firm aims to go public with market cap of up to $1.1 billion via @ashleycapoot.cnbc.com
Diabetes management firm aims to go public with market cap of up to $1.1 billion via @ashleycapoot.cnbc.com
Omada Health aims to go public with market cap of up to $1.1 billion
Omada Health updated its IPO prospectus on Thursday, indicating that it plans to raise up to $158 million in its offering.
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May 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Omada Health: Hey Hinge, hold my beer...
Diabetes management firm aims to go public with market cap of up to $1.1 billion via @ashleycapoot.cnbc.com
Diabetes management firm aims to go public with market cap of up to $1.1 billion via @ashleycapoot.cnbc.com