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Hello there.
Just another freaky Friday. How we doin’?
In this issue:
👋 OpenAI's Executive Exodus Continues
⚡️ Ring Pleads the Fifth With New Features
🚀 Nvidia Crushed Earnings (Again)
🤖 Dead Internet Theory is Only 1/3 True
🎙️ Alex Cooper’s $500M Bet & The Business of Never Ending
Hype for these AI IPOs is only going to get more insane. It’ll be interesting to see what’s left of these companies by the time they’re ready to launch. Weird times ahead. 👇
👋 “Goodbye, OpenAI.”
OpenAI just lost another senior executive, and this one feels especially rough. Chris Malone, who ran the company's entire data center operation, bounced after less than two years. That makes over a dozen executives who've left in 2026 alone, which, uh… doesn’t look great.
Malone came from Meta and Google, where he built massive infrastructure that kickstarted their recent scaling efforts. At OpenAI, he was supposed to execute their plan to spend $600 billion on compute by 2030. Except now he's gone, the company's been "reorganized", and the executives replacing him are handling it as a side project on top of their other jobs.
The flood of departures is getting hard to ignore, especially ahead of OpenAI’s supposed IPO. In just the past few months, the company lost its Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and several other team leads. Some cited health issues, others gave zero explanation, but the pattern is obvious. These are people who could work anywhere in tech, and they're choosing anywhere-but-here.
OpenAI insists this is normal and everyone needs to calm down. President Greg Brockman said that the only difference is OpenAI gets more attention than other companies. But when you're trying to IPO at an $852 billion valuation, and you can't keep your leadership team intact for more than six months at a time, investors tend to notice.
As you’ll recall, the company filed confidentially for its IPO back in June, but now the timeline's been pushed to 2027. Seems like they need more time to figure out how to make the financials look less scary.
⚡️ The Tech Ticker
Ring's new "Throw Away the Key Encryption" becomes the default for all cameras next month, limiting what the company can hand over to police.
Instagram launched First Draft, an automated tool that trims video clips and removes pauses to create an initial Reel cut in under 10 seconds.
The FBI seized domains from a Chinese state-sponsored botnet that targeted NASA, the Justice Department, and the US Senate.
Boston Scientific said a cyberattack is disrupting its global operations, including systems for processing and shipping customer orders.
Meta reached an $18 billion settlement over allegations that its social media platforms harm children, agreeing to massive changes in how it operates.
🚀 Maybe Every Year Can Be a Moonshot?
Nvidia reported another bonkers quarter that somehow exceeded Wall Street's already ridiculous expectations. Revenue hit $96.2 billion, while earnings came in at $2.22 per share against the $2.10 forecast. Basically, Jensen Huang's company is printing money at a rate that makes venture capitalists weep with envy.
Nvidia's business has gotten so huge that half its revenue comes from five internet giants, and the other half comes from 250,000 companies worldwide. Amazon just announced it'll buy another 2 million GPUs from Nvidia, which sounds like a lot, but that's just one customer. Still, the company's gross margin held steady at 75%, which is genuinely insane. For context, most hardware makers consider 30-40% gross margin a win.
But there's a catch. Nvidia warned that memory prices are going absolutely haywire due to shortages, and gross margins will start dropping in the fourth quarter. They're also carrying $33.5 billion in debt now, which isn’t just something to ignore. The company spent $26 billion on stock buybacks and dividends this quarter, so they're clearly trying to keep investors happy while the party lasts.
Whether the party keeps going or crashes depends entirely on whether companies keep spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure. And based on the OpenAI executive exodus, that's starting to feel like a coin flip.
🤖 All Eyes on AI
Over a third of web pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI authorship, according to a Pew Research Center study of 10,000 pages.
Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, putting it in control of one of the most important hubs for sharing open AI models.
Anthropic inked a roughly $45 billion cloud deal with Nscale to rent around 460 megawatts of compute capacity at a West Virginia data center.
Google is changing Android app requirements to reduce memory usage as developers face industrywide chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom.
Goldman Sachs partners are warning that AI could erode bankers' reasoning skills as the industry increasingly relies on automated tools for analysis and decision-making.
🤡 Meme of the Week
🎙️ Alex Cooper’s $500M Bet & The Business of Never-Ending
In this episode of The Best One Yet, the hosts unpack a week where a media startup reaches a massive valuation without a clear playbook, and a legacy merger faces costly uncertainty.
📻 Tune in to:
Analyze why investors are valuing Alex Cooper’s Unwell at $500 million and what it means when a creator-led media company scales faster than its business model.
Explore the high-stakes uncertainty of Paramount’s proposed Warner Bros. deal and how it could trigger one of the largest fees in corporate history.
Examine how Candy Crush has maintained tens of millions of users for more than a decade by designing a game that never offers a final victory.
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