Egyptian daily Youm7 summarizes comments from OpenAI startup head Mark Manara and Google Cloud marketing VP Alison Wagonfeld at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, describing how generative AI lets startups target and qualify customers more precisely while producing and testing marketing messages at scale. Both stress that AI augments rather than replaces human go-to-market expertise, shifting hiring toward curious, adaptable talent that can blend AI tooling with deep customer understanding. ([youm7.com](https://www.youm7.com/story/2025/11/30/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%AF-OpenAI-%D9%88Google-%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AF%D8%AE%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%82-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A1/7215717))
OpenAI and NEXTDC entered a multi-year agreement under which OpenAI will anchor a hyperscale AI campus and GPU supercluster at NEXTDC’s S7 facility in Sydney to support large-scale AI inference and enterprise workloads.
OpenAI agreed to acquire neptune.ai to integrate its experiment‑tracking and training‑monitoring tools into OpenAI’s frontier model training stack.
OpenAI provides custom holiday tools built on ChatGPT to enhance NORAD’s annual Santa‑tracking program as a public‑facing AI partnership.
OpenAI acquires an equity stake in Thrive Holdings in exchange for dedicated AI research and integration support to modernize Thrive’s accounting and IT services portfolio.
OpenAI is acquiring an equity stake in Thrive Holdings and embedding its teams to deploy AI across Thrive’s accounting and IT services portfolio companies.

