OpenAI Takes Out Another Niche

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🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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OpenAI debuted personal finance tools via Plaid for Pro users. AI startups generate ~$80B in annualized revenue, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89%. ArXiv cracks down on AI slop, Apple's Siri relaunch may still be a beta, and SF vibes are frenetic. OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more (TechCrunch) Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue (The Information) ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (404 Media) Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 (Bloomberg) A college senior at Stanford describes how AI has changed classes: cheating using AI "has become omnipresent" with students "fudging just about everything" (NYT) SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth (X / @deedydas) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the TechBru Ride Home for Monday, May 18th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today. OpenAI
0:08.8	debuted personal finance tools via Plaid for pro users. The bigger, getting richer in the AI race and
0:14.0	pulling away from the rest of the industry. Archive is cracking down on AI slop. Apple's Siri
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1:26.1	Late last week, OpenAI debuted personal finance tools for U.S. ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to more than 12,000 financial institutions to analyze spending and more.
1:39.0	Quoting TechCrunch, users can connect over 12,000 financial institutions, including Schwab, Fidelity, Chase, Robin Hood,
1:44.9	American Express, and Capital One. Once users connect these accounts, they will see a dashboard of
1:50.3	their portfolio, performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments. The new product
1:55.7	comes just one month after Open AI acquired the team behind personal finance startup hero,
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