The cracks inside OpenAI are deepeningn and the numbers don’t lie. When your own CFO raises concerns, it’s a serious signal.
Here’s what is happening: missed user and revenue targets, while ChatGPT rapidly loses share to Google’s Gemini. Sarah Friar has reportedly warned about funding future compute and pushed back on Sam Altman’s aggressive IPO timeline. Meanwhile, massive data center commitments could burn hundreds of billions before profitability, even after record fundraising. Now the board is questioning spending, and legal pressure from Elon Musk is building. A company valued at $852B—but facing real financial and strategic risks. Source: The Assembly; Chartr
$440 billion wiped from semiconductor stocks in a single day after 19 straight days of gains.
The $SOX Semiconductor Index crashed 5% on Tuesday, its worst session in months and the first red day after the longest winning streak in the index's history. - $NVDA down 3.2% wiping out $200 billion. - $AVGO down 4.3% wiping out $95 billion. - $MU down 5.8% wiping out $40 billion. - $AMD down 4.8% wiping out $29 billion. - $INTC down 4.2% wiping out $7 billion. Source: Bull Theory
Tesla $TSLA is positioning itself to be the largest physical AI deployment platform by the end of this decade.
By 2031, Tesla could become a $375B revenue story where AI, robots, services, energy & Cybercab together become larger than automotive: • Automotive 40% • Cybercab 24% • Robots 16% • Energy 11% • Services 9% Source: Shay Boloor
Yesterday was all about the OpenAi missed targets story. OpenAi ecosystem has underperformed the Google AI ecosystem (-45%) aggressively since the end of January.
Source: RBC, Bloomberg
Almost half of the semiconductor index names are showing Bubble Risk Indicator levels above 0.8, and two thirds above 0.7, according to Bank of America.
Source: Markets & Mayhem
I know that comparing market cap with country GDP does not make too much economic sense.
Source: shirish @shiri_shh on X
Chegg $CHGG is now down 99% from its peak because AI has killed its business entirely.
Chegg was a $14.7 billion edtech company that charged students $20 a month for homework answers from a database of 79 million solutions built over a decade. Then ChatGPT launched in November 2022. Five months later Chegg's CEO admitted it was destroying their business. The stock dropped 48% in a single day. Revenue dropped 49% by Q4 2025. Subscribers collapsed from 5 million to under 3 million. The company fired 67% of its staff in two rounds last year and shut down all US and Canada offices. AI does the same thing instantly for free and explains the concept behind it. It went From $14.7 billion marketcap to $114 million in 39 months. The first company to be officially killed by AI. Source: Bull Theory
S&P 500 $SPX now trading at the very top of its 8-year trend line
Source: Barchart
