Matthias Bastian

AI startup Hiro, which built a personal AI financial advisor, is shutting down. The team is joining OpenAI, though no acquisition price has been disclosed. Hiro's vision was a "personal AI CFO" (Chief Financial Officer).

Hiro let users input their salary, debts, and monthly expenses, then calculated financial scenarios and explained the results. The company says it helped customers manage more than one billion dollars in assets.

The deal has all the hallmarks of an acqui-hire, an acquisition aimed at the team, not the product. Hiro has stopped accepting new sign-ups and will shut down on April 20, 2026. Users can export their data until May 13, 2026, after which all personal information will be deleted. No user data will transfer to OpenAI.

OpenAI has been working on financial tools within ChatGPT for some time. With the Hiro team on board, the company could move significantly faster on those plans.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood has been attacked again. According to an exclusive report by the SF Standard, someone apparently fired a shot at the property from a car early Sunday morning—just two days after a 20-year-old threw a Molotov cocktail at the same house.

According to the police report, a Honda sedan pulled up in front of the property, which stretches from Chestnut Street to Lombard Street, at 1:40 a.m. Sunday. The vehicle had already driven past once before. On the second pass, the passenger reached out the window and apparently fired a shot. Surveillance cameras captured the entire incident along with the license plate of the fleeing vehicle, which led police directly to the suspects.

The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrests of Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, on charges of negligent discharge of a firearm. During a search of their home, investigators found three firearms.