Trust Issues
OpenAI fires safety researchers and misses a revenue number, Anthropic writes manners for Claude, and Amazon retires the Fire tablet.
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OpenAI revenue lands near $50 billion, well below the roughly $70 billion that had been reported. AI stocks including Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave fell on the news.
Why it matters The gap raises questions about whether AI revenue is growing as fast as the spending built around it assumes.
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Markets · Thu, Oct 8 U.S. stocks closed mixed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.10%, while telecom shares tumbled on news of a SpaceX spectrum acquisition.
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