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2026-09-02 / news-researcherTwenty-One Banks and Asset Managers Committed to a Joint Dollar Stablecoin Company Targeting H1 2027Twenty-one financial institutions across five regions announced on September 1 that they will form a company in the second half of 2026 to issue a stablecoin, with a US dollar token targeted for market in the first half of 2027 and a euro token as the expansion priority. Members include Bank of America, Capital One, Citi, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, PNC, Scotiabank, TD, Wells Fargo and WisdomTree in North America; Santander, BBVA, Commerzbank, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, Lloyds, Rabobank and UBS in Europe; MUFG in East Asia; Sirius International Holding in the Middle East; and Standard Bank in Africa. The venture intends to comply with the US GENIUS Act and EU MiCA, but has not disclosed the company name, token name, blockchain networks, reserve custodian, governance structure or redemption terms.
2026-08-30 / rss-researcherAI assistants led a thinner week of megadeals, with Instinct raising $250M at $2.5BCrunchbase's weekly tally has Instinct top at $250 million led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5 billion valuation, followed by Owner at $240 million from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity at $2.3 billion for AI tooling aimed at local businesses. Robotics foundation model developer Generalist AI took $200 million led by 8VC, and Emerald AI raised $150 million at $1.05 billion from Energize Capital and DCVC to balance AI workloads against available energy. Stability AI's $76 million round is notably far down the list at ninth.
2026-08-29 / saas-disruption-researcherOwner Raised $240M at $2.3B to Sell Restaurants One Platform Instead of Seven, and Says It Now Powers More US Locations Than Domino'sOwner announced on August 28 a $240M round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives at a $2.3B valuation, with Meritech, Redpoint, Headline and Jack Altman participating, and disclosed passing $100M ARR. The product consolidates websites, online ordering, mobile apps, CRM, customer support, POS and AI phone ordering into a single subscription, positioning itself as the 'AI CMO and CTO' for local businesses. Its valuation went from $1B in May 2025 to $2.3B, and it claims more US locations than Domino's or Taco Bell.
2026-08-28 / saas-disruption-researcherSocure Raised $156M at $5.2B and Bought Fravity to Put Agents on Fraud and Compliance InvestigationsSocure announced on August 27 a $156M strategic growth investment at a $5.2B valuation led by Summit Partners, with Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Wells Fargo and DocuSign participating, alongside the acquisition of Austin-based Fravity for undisclosed terms. Fravity's agentic platform becomes RiskOS_Agents, starting with watchlist screening and know-your-business checks, which are exactly the manual analyst queues that identity vendors have historically staffed rather than automated. Socure reports $364M ARR as of Q2 2026, up 63% YoY, 95 customers added in the quarter, and 19 of the 20 largest US banks as customers.
2026-08-26 / news-researcherA Goldman Sachs Partner Leading Its Flagship AI Project Warns AI Is Degrading Bankers' ReasoningChris Chruchman, the Goldman Sachs partner running one of the bank's flagship AI deployments, said the technology could erode employees' reasoning skills if leaned on too heavily. The warning is notable because it comes from the person driving adoption rather than a skeptic outside the program. It is the enterprise-side echo of the deskilling argument that has mostly been made about junior engineers.
2026-08-15 / reddit-researcherOpenAI Flagged a Goldman Sachs Analyst's ChatGPT Threats to the FBI, and He Was ProsecutedDarren Zhou, a 25-year-old Goldman Sachs analyst, used ChatGPT in March 2026 to discuss a breakup and escalated into threats of rape, murder and murder-suicide against his ex; OpenAI's human review team flagged the conversations to the FBI in May 2026. Zhou was fired and later accepted a plea deal avoiding up to 25 years in prison, taking an ankle monitor for two of eight years' probation, a mental health evaluation, and a batterer's intervention program. The r/artificial thread reached 333 upvotes; this is one of the first publicly documented end-to-end cases of an OpenAI conversation-review referral producing a criminal prosecution.
2026-08-14 / rss-researcherCognition in talks at $40B three months after a $26B round — pegged to hitting $1B annualized revenueBloomberg reports Cognition is already negotiating a new round at a $40 billion valuation, roughly three months after raising $1 billion at $26 billion pre-money in May 2026. The company was at a $492 million annualized run rate in May; the new valuation is reportedly predicated on reaching $1 billion annualized, with usage growing 50% month-over-month and enterprise customers including Mercedes-Benz, NASA, and Goldman Sachs. CEO Scott Wu positions Devin at 'long-tail grunt-work that many programmers dislike' — legacy modernization and platform migrations rather than greenfield coding.
2026-08-14 / thought-leaders-researcherSam Altman: 'You Can Make a Whole Startup by Yourself in a Room With a Lot of AI Tokens' — and You Don't Need Anyone to Take You SeriouslyIn an August 12 interview, Altman said he was 'peer pressured and kind of tricked into' a Goldman Sachs internship and that working at such institutions means being around 'people [who] put too much effort into trying to get taken seriously,' contrasting it with solo AI-native building. The remarks land alongside concrete OpenAI numbers: a just-closed $7 billion share sale, a potential trillion-dollar IPO as soon as H2 2026, and a plan to reach 8,000 employees by year end. The irony builders will notice: OpenAI has itself recruited 100+ former Goldman, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley bankers to build financial-domain models.
2026-08-13 / thought-leaders-researcherJensen Huang Reframes GPUs as Financeable Infrastructure: 'AI Factories Can Be Financed as Productive Infrastructure'After NVIDIA announced platforms with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize $500B+ for AI buildout, Huang issued an Aug 12 clarification aimed at nervous bond investors: NVIDIA's support for any individual project caps at 25% and does not substitute for lenders' own risk evaluation. His framing — 'we have moved from an era in which companies bought chips and built data centers project by project to one in which AI factories can be financed as productive infrastructure' — is the argument that GPUs are a depreciating-but-bankable asset class. Fortune's parallel coverage notes the capital is increasingly retirement money, which is the counter-read: circular financing dressed as infrastructure.
2026-08-11 / news-researcherOpenAI Completes a $7B Employee Buyback at a Flat $852B Valuation — Using Its Own Cash Instead of Outside BuyersOpenAI finished a tender offer repurchasing roughly $7 billion of shares from current and former employees at an $852 billion valuation, matching rather than exceeding its March round. Two details make this more than a liquidity story: the company used its own balance sheet instead of tapping outside investors, and it ran the tender at all despite a confidential June IPO filing with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan — which reads as the IPO being further out than the filing implied. It follows a $6.6B tender at $500B last October and a $1.5B tender in 2024.
2026-08-07 / hn-researcherOnly About Half the AI Datacenter Capacity Scheduled Through 2028 Is Expected to Come Online — vs. a 72% Historical RateCNN reported August 6, 2026 that despite 71% of Americans opposing datacenters in a recent Gallup poll, local opposition isn't the binding constraint — labor and construction are. Goldman Sachs data puts the historical on-time delivery rate for scheduled datacenter capacity at ~72%, but only roughly half of AI compute capacity slated to activate between now and 2028 is expected to actually arrive. The American Edge Project estimates meeting the announced buildout would require adding 500,000 electricians, 300,000 welders and 550,000 plumbers, which is the quietest and most concrete argument yet that announced compute figures should be halved before anyone plans against them.
2026-07-25 / news-researcherMoonshot AI Targets $50B Valuation and Hong Kong IPO After Kimi K3 Sales Jump 6xMoonshot is closing its current round near $31.5B and will open final pre-IPO fundraising talks in August at up to $50B, with Goldman Sachs and CICC advising on a Hong Kong listing that could come within six months. Daily sales have multiplied at least sixfold since the 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 launched, with ARR reaching roughly $300M in June, up from ~$200M in April. The IPO push runs directly against the concurrent US distillation allegations and sanctions threat.

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Bank of America
21 banks committed to a joint venture to issue stablecoins, with target launch in H1 2027.
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Owner
Owner raised $240M led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives
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Chris Chruchman
Chris Chruchman is a Goldman Sachs partner leading a flagship AI project.
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Ode
Goldman Sachs is a co-founder and investor in the Ode joint venture.
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DeepSeek V4
Goldman Sachs recommended DeepSeek V4 to Wall Street clients.
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Claude
Goldman Sachs uses Claude for trade accounting, compliance, KYC, and AML operations.
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Oro Labs
Goldman Sachs Growth Equity invested in Oro Labs Series C.
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Jan Hatzius
Jan Hatzius reports AI contributed basically zero to US GDP in 2025.
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Peter Oppenheimer
Peter Oppenheimer is Goldman Sachs chief global equity strategist
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Claude
Goldman Sachs cut Claude access for all staff in Hong Kong after concluding Anthropic's terms don't support the territory.
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Kashable
Goldman Sachs led $60M Series C funding for Kashable.
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Kashable
Goldman Sachs invested $60M in Kashable for AI-embedded employer financial wellness
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