What You Missed (3/29 - 4/4)

OpenAI Acquires TBPN
In its first media acquisition, OpenAI bought the founder‑hosted livestream TBPN in a deal reportedly worth the low hundreds of millions, moving the show under chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane and using the broader TBPN operation to bolster OpenAI’s communications and marketing efforts.

Blue Owl Limiting Redemptions on Private Credit Funds
A rush for the exits at Blue Owl Capital has investors asking to withdraw $5.4 billion from two private-credit funds, triggering a reversal in policy as the manager limits quarterly redemptions to 5% to stem accelerating outflows.

SpaceX Files For IPO
By confidentially filing to go public at an expected valuation topping $1 trillion, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to join the ranks of the world’s most valuable public companies while tightening Musk’s web of interconnected ventures spanning rockets, satellites, Tesla, AI and advanced chipmaking.

Netflix Open Sources Video Editing Model
Developed by Netflix and Sofia University, the open-source VOID model removes objects from footage using text prompts and simulates believable post-removal motion, such as a collision never happening or a pool never being disturbed.

Kintsugi Pivots After FDA Denial
After spending seven years building AI to detect depression from speech, mental health startup Kintsugi has shut down after a slow, ill‑fitting FDA process drained its runway, open‑sourcing its screening tech while keeping a promising deepfake‑detection tool proprietary.

Perplexity Hit With Class Action Over Icognito Mode
In a 140-page complaint, a Utah user says Perplexity secretly let Meta and Google ‘wiretap’ his private AI chats, alleging that Incognito mode still leaked full prompts, email addresses, and prompt history for hyper-targeted ads, while Perplexity insists it cannot verify any such lawsuit and is already fighting separate legal battles over data scraping.

New Executive Order Targeting College Athletes
A new executive order from President Donald Trump tells the NCAA to restrict athletes to a five-year playing window and one free transfer while creating an agent registry and protections for women’s and Olympic sports.

New Tariffs Coming on Patented Prescription Drugs
The White House outlines a new tariff regime that slaps 100% duties on patented drugs and ingredients, tempered for trade-deal partners and exempting generics, designed to force more pharmaceutical production into the United States.

UCSF Scientists Identify Protein That Drives Brain Aging
By tracking how the aging hippocampus changes over time, researchers identified FTL1 as a standout culprit whose elevated levels both erode neural circuitry and slow energy use in brain cells.

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$122B - OpenAI’s most recent fundraising round

178K - reported number of jobs added in March

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30 - the number of years faced by the Uranium Finance hacker