Oct 29, 2025 5 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ A New AI Era

Plus: Lilly Joins AI, Barrels to Bytes

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OpenAI has effectively written the playbook for how “AI for humanity” can coexist with trillion-dollar ambitions. The next chapter will not be about whether it goes public, but how soon.

RESTRUCTURE

OpenAI Restructures for Profit, Clears Path to IPO

📌 What’s happening: OpenAI has completed its long-awaited corporate restructuring, marking a decisive break from its non-profit roots. The company now operates as OpenAI Group, a for-profit public benefit corporation fully controlled by the OpenAI Foundation, which functions as a non-profit holding entity. Under the new model, the Foundation owns 26 percent of OpenAI Group and retains board appointment power, ensuring that governance remains mission-driven even as capital markets open up. Microsoft holds about 27 percent, valued at roughly 135 billion dollars, while the remaining shares are distributed among investors and employees.

🧠 How this hits reality: The recapitalization cements a two-tier governance model that blends altruism with ambition. The Foundation preserves the organization’s original public-interest mandate, while OpenAI Group gains the freedom to raise funds, acquire companies, and pursue commercial expansion without previous legal restraints. The structure also includes a “public benefit clause,” requiring OpenAI to balance profit with broader societal impact. Microsoft’s extended IP rights through 2032 further stabilize the relationship that underpins OpenAI’s infrastructure. With SoftBank’s 30 billion dollar investment finalized and state regulators from California and Delaware dropping their objections, the company has effectively secured a green light for the next phase — a likely public listing.

🛎️ Key takeaway: OpenAI is no longer a non-profit moonshot; it is now a market-ready hybrid with a moral boardroom. The AGI lab that once defied venture logic just rewired itself for Wall Street.

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PHARMA

Lilly and Nvidia Partner to Build an AI-Powered R&D Platform

📌 What’s happening: The world’s leading pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is partnering with Nvidia to build its own DGX SuperPOD, an AI supercomputer designed to train models on millions of biological experiments in order to accelerate drug discovery and development. These models will power Lilly TuneLab, a federated platform that allows biotech partners to access Lilly’s AI capabilities without revealing proprietary data, creating what is essentially a shared intelligence layer for pharmaceutical research.

🧠 How this hits reality: This collaboration marks Lilly’s transition from being an AI user to becoming an AI infrastructure builder. By running Nvidia’s DGX B300 systems internally, Lilly is turning its data moat into a developer ecosystem while cutting years from preclinical testing cycles. The move also sets a new standard for “sovereign AI” in healthcare, giving the company full-stack control from molecules to models without relying on external cloud vendors. Competitors that depend on outsourced compute may find themselves outpaced.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Lilly is not just training models; it is training the next generation of biotech to build on its brain.

INFRA

Oil Titans Abandon Rigs for Racks

📌 What’s happening: SLB, Halliburton, and Baker Hughes—once the backbone of global drilling are now wiring up the AI boom. With oil prices stuck near $60 and rigs going idle, the oilfield triumvirate is redirecting turbines, grid tech, and decades of heavy-infrastructure muscle toward powering hyperscale data centers. Baker Hughes has already booked 1.2 GW in data-center power orders, Halliburton is co-funding 2.3 GW with VoltaGrid for Oracle’s AI buildout, and SLB’s Digital unit just logged 11% quarterly growth.

🧠 How this hits reality: The fossil fuel supply chain is mutating into AI infrastructure supply. These firms are not only selling barrels anymore, they’re selling watts, uptime, and thermal efficiency. Cloud players get industrial-grade reliability; oilfield giants get a new lease on relevance. The energy transition just got hijacked by compute demand.

🛎️ Key takeaway: When AI eats the world, even oilfields learn Python—or at least power its servers.

QUICK HITS

OpenAI plans to build a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028 capable of conducting independent scientific research.
GitHub launches Agent HQ to unify management of multiple AI coding agents and enhance security oversight.
Adobe MAX 2025 showcases new AI tools across Creative Cloud, including audio generation, Express assistants, and social media agents.
PayPal will enable direct payments in ChatGPT starting in 2026, becoming the first digital wallet integrated into the platform.
Australian police are developing AI to decode emojis and slang used by online “crimefluencers” as part of a wider crackdown on digital crime networks.

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