Deepa Seetharaman
Deepa Seetharaman is a business and technology reporter whose coverage tracks how artificial intelligence reshapes corporate power, capital flows and risk inside the world’s largest tech companies.
AI deals and OpenAI’s growing influence
Her recent work focuses on OpenAI’s rise and the financial architecture forming around it. She co-writes exclusives on OpenAI’s plans for a “juggernaut” initial public offering that could value the company near $1 trillion and raise at least $60 billion, drawing on multiple sources familiar with internal discussions and long-term listing targets. She follows that capital story through Nvidia’s agreement to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and supply it with data-center chips, documenting how chip makers and AI labs are becoming tightly linked in a new corporate stack.
She also reports on OpenAI’s efforts to manage the downside of its own technology, such as the company’s investment in Red Queen Bio, a startup using AI models and lab experiments to identify emerging biological risks and block AI-enabled bioweapons. In coverage of Musk’s failed court attack on OpenAI, she extends this lens to governance and reputation, examining how high-stakes legal fights around AI can leave lasting scars on a founder’s standing even when the case does not succeed. Across these stories, the through-line is AI as a business system: valuations, strategic partnerships, safety investments and the reputational consequences for the executives in charge.
Big Tech restructuring and the cost of AI
Seetharaman’s reporting shows how the rush into AI is rewriting budgets, workforces and expectations inside established platforms. In “Business leaders agree AI is the future. They just wish it worked right,” she captures the tension between executive enthusiasm and practical frustration, highlighting views from leaders who say AI excels at writing, coding and conversing but still fails too often to be fully trusted in operations. Her coverage of Meta’s internal planning goes further on the cost side, with an exclusive on sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of its workforce as the company tries to pay for expensive AI infrastructure and adapt to AI-boosted efficiency.
These stories rely on detailed sourcing, including multiple people with knowledge of Meta’s deliberations and the absence of a fixed timeline for the reductions. The pattern is consistent: she treats AI not only as a set of technologies but as a budget line, a driver of job cuts and a test of whether platforms can translate promises of efficiency into durable business gains.
Elon Musk, SpaceX and contested founder power
Seetharaman often returns to founders whose personal brands are tightly bound to frontier technologies, with Elon Musk as a recurring subject. In “Exclusive–SpaceX conquered the stars, now eyes bigger opportunity,” she traces how SpaceX has revived the space industry over a quarter century and now looks beyond launches to larger opportunities, situating the company within a broader commercial space economy rather than treating it as a purely engineering story. Her piece on Musk’s failed court attack on OpenAI extends this scrutiny from hardware and rockets to legal strategy and public image, exploring how a courtroom defeat can reshape perceptions of a founder’s judgment in the AI era.
This strand of her work connects space, AI and capital markets through the decisions of individual leaders, showing how Musk’s bets in one domain intersect with high-profile disputes in another. It is less about personality and more about the structural influence founders have over multi-billion-dollar firms and the risks they incur when they push those firms into public legal and reputational battles.
Corporate strategy, platforms and activist pressure
Before her current focus on AI, Seetharaman built a substantial record covering corporate strategy and digital platforms, and that history still informs her reporting. At Yahoo Finance she appears in syndicated Reuters coverage of e-commerce and autos, including stories on Hyundai’s decision to hold the line on U.S. dealership numbers even as sales rise, and Amazon’s belief that its dispute with publisher Hachette would not end quickly. She co-authored “EBay follows Icahn’s advice, plans PayPal spinoff in 2015,” detailing how activist investor pressure led eBay to spin off PayPal to give the payments unit more room to grow.
Her work at a major business newspaper adds an investigative layer to this corporate beat. In “Yahoo Posts Another Loss, Highlighting Hurdles for Potential Buyers,” she analyzes declining revenue metrics and the challenges facing any buyer of the company. She is part of a reporting team that won a George Polk Award for business reporting for an investigative series on Facebook, including coverage of the company abandoning plans to change its share structure to avoid a lawsuit and internal research on the harms Instagram poses to teen users. Those stories, frequently multi-bylined, examine share-voting arrangements, internal morale and content impacts, and they are cited widely in legal and policy scholarship on corporate control and online speech.
Taken together, this body of work distinguishes Seetharaman as a reporter who treats tech companies as complex business entities rather than product stories. Whether she is breaking exclusives on OpenAI’s IPO and Nvidia’s investment, detailing Meta’s AI-driven layoffs, or tracing the consequences of activist pressure on eBay and governance fights at Facebook, her coverage stays with the financial stakes, the internal decision-making and the broader implications for markets and society.
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