FRIDAY PRESS REVIEW - October 3 2025
Here are some of the most interesting articles of the last weeks selected by The Consultancy Group:
OpenAI hits $500 billion valuation after share sale to SoftBank
Tech - OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has reached a valuation of $500 billion, following a deal in which current and former employees sold roughly $6.6 billion worth of shares, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
This represents a bump-up from its current valuation of $300 billion, underscoring OpenAI's rapid gains in both users and revenue.
How Taylor Swift made herself too big to fail
Culture - Her newest album, The Life of a Showgirl, is released tomorrow and it’s difficult to see any way that it doesn’t perform phenomenally well.
Swift, at 35, appears to have become too big to fail. Her place as one of the all-time greats is assured. But can her hot streak continue, as public taste shifts towards “messier” singers who are more upfront about their vulnerabilities?
Europe hold of US to win golf’s Ryder Cup 2025
Sport - What looked certain to be a comfortable Team Europe win unexpectedly turned into a thrilling Ryder Cup finale as they withstood a ferocious challenge from Team United States to capture golf’s biggest team prize in a nail-biting 15-13 victory.
Europe, a close-knit team that had done everything right for two days at Long Island’s Bethpage Black, needed two points from the 11 singles matches that were played on Sunday to retain the Ryder Cup, but the Americans made them sweat it out until the bitter end.