This Week in Tech (Week Ending May 9, 2025)

TL;DR - 🇺🇸new pope; ✨OpenAI will remain a nonprofit; 🤝M&A

Hey folks!

TGIF. Tech news below

TL;DR -

• 🇺🇸We’ve got ourselves an American pope! The first ever.

• ⭐️just kidding! OpenAI abandoned its for-profit conversion and will remain under the control of a nonprofit organization

• 🤝 Fair bit of M&A - including from 💰OpenAI / Windsurf (AI coding assistant)- OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date; Doordash / Deliveroo,