EPISODE · Oct 14, 2025 · 19 MIN
Sam Altman’s Financial Engineering
from Tech Brew Ride Home · host Morning Brew
The Dutch government has taken control of a Dutch chipmaker that had Chinese owners. Yet another big OpenAI deal, this time with Broadcom. The first AI desktop workstations are arriving. And we check in with Matt Levine to get his take on what he says is Sam Altman’s genius for financial engineering. Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia (FT) OpenAI, Broadcom Forge Multibillion-Dollar Chip-Development Deal (WSJ) Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Departs for Meta (WSJ) Nvidia to Start Selling $3,999 DGX Spark Mini PC This Week (PCMag) NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats (9to5Google) OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals (Matt Levine) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Dutch government has taken control of a Dutch chipmaker that had Chinese owners. Yet another big OpenAI deal, this time with Broadcom. The first AI desktop workstations are arriving. And we check in with Matt Levine to get his take on what he says is Sam Altman’s genius for financial engineering. Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia (FT) OpenAI, Broadcom Forge Multibillion-Dollar Chip-Development Deal (WSJ) Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Departs for Meta (WSJ) Nvidia to Start Selling $3,999 DGX Spark Mini PC This Week (PCMag) NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats (9to5Google) OpenAI Keeps Doing Deals (Matt Levine) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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