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OpenAI looms over earnings from tech hyperscalers

Cnbc · · 878 words · By Jonathan Vanian
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With the four tech hyperscalers — Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft — set to report quarterly earnings after the close, hovering over their results is a single company that doesn't even release its financials to the public: OpenAI.

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What happened

With the four tech hyperscalers — Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft — set to report quarterly earnings after the close, hovering over their results is a single company that doesn't even release its financials to the public: OpenAI.

Why it matters

The ChatGPT creator, now valued at more than $850 billion by private investors, has become a major market mover over the past year as its revenue and hefty spending are increasingly viewed as a proxy for the artificial intelligence trade.

Common ground

OpenAI would be all over the headlines this week anyway because of a high-profile legal battle between CEO Sam Altman and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/openai-looms-over-earnings-from-tech-hyperscaler…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Alphabet shares have more than doubled in the past year”
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No evidence was provided or found during the search to verify the specific percentage increase of Alphabet's share price over the past year.
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Claim 2: “Musk sued Altman and OpenAI in 2024, alleging they breached the founding agreement”
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Wikipedia explicitly documents the lawsuit 'Musk v. Altman' in the Northern District of California, where Musk accuses OpenAI and Altman of violating the founding agreement.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI is a book by Karen Hao released on May 20, 2025. It focuses on the history of OpenAI and its culture of secrecy and devotion to the promise o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_AI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The legal affairs of Elon Musk encompass the legal cases involving Elon Musk as the plaintiff, defendant, or concerning his companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Elon_Musk
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Musk v. Altman is an ongoing lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in which Elon Musk accuses OpenAI and its executives, including CEO Sam Altman, of viol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_v._Altman
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Claim 3: “Alphabet is directly taking on OpenAI through its Gemini models and suite of Gemini-powered services”
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Multiple sources (CNBC and other web results) describe Alphabet's use of Gemini models (including Gemini 3) to compete directly with OpenAI.
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web search NEUTRAL — Google has spent three years trying to get its "full stack" working in harmony. With Gemini 3, it might have just done that.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gemini-3-google-openai-advan…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet stock jumped 3% on Wednesday after Google debuted its latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3, sparking optimism from investors. The new model is an improvement on its predecessor ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/alphabet-stock-gemini-3-ai.h…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet's success in the AI war stems from its ability to combine cutting-edge models like Gemini with a vertically integrated infrastructure and strategic partnerships. By securing control over the …
https://www.ainvest.com/news/google-gemini-winning-ai-war-al…
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Claim 4: “OpenAI and Microsoft announced a big shake-up to their established partnership”
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CNBC and OpenAI's own official announcement, along with Rundown AI, confirm a shake-up/amendment to the partnership with Microsoft to simplify terms and remove exclusivity.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Rundown: OpenAI and Microsoft reworked their partnership terms, ending Microsoft's exclusivity over OAI’s IP, killing the AGI clause, and freeing OpenAI to ship products on any cloud while Microso…
https://www.rundown.ai/articles/openai-and-microsoft-new-ope…
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web search NEUTRAL — Microsoft Copilot is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft AI, a division of Microsoft. Based on OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-5 series of large language models, it was launched…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Copilot
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI and Microsoft announce an amended agreement that simplifies the partnership, adds long-term clarity, and supports continued AI innovation at scale.
https://openai.com/index/next-phase-of-microsoft-partnership…
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Claim 5: “Altman... said on a podcast that Meta tried to poach OpenAI employees by offering signing bonuses as high as $100 million”
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Claim 6: “Amazon revealed that OpenAI's models would be available on its AWS cloud computing service”
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Multiple independent sources (CNBC, TechCrunch, and other web results) confirm that Amazon announced OpenAI's open-weight models would be available on AWS (Bedrock and SageMaker).
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that OpenAI open weight models are available via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI for the first time, enabling customers to quickly and easily build generativ…
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/openai-models-amazon-be…
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web search NEUTRAL — As OpenAI announced two open-weight reasoning models with capabilities on par with its o-series, Amazon announced that the new models would become available on AWS on Tuesday. This is the first time t…
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/for-the-first-time-openai-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that OpenAI's open weight models will be available for the first time on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI. This will allow the company’s customers to buil…
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/ama…
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Claim 7: “Wall Street Journal report that OpenAI missed revenue and user growth projections”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general definitions of 'Wall', 'The Wall Street Journal', and 'AI bubble', but contains no specific report or article stating that OpenAI missed revenue or user growth projections.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AI bubble is a theorised stock market bubble growing amidst the AI boom, a period of rapid increase in investment in artificial intelligence (AI) that is affecting the broader economy. Speculation…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI Global, LLC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) and a nonprofit foundation, headquartered in San Franci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), commonly known as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and financ…
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Claim 8: “Google's custom-built tensor processing units, or TPUs, are becoming a popular alternative to Nvidia's graphics processing units, or GPUs”
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Claim 9: “Microsoft and Amazon are both major investors in OpenAI, with the former having pumped in a total of $13 billion and the latter recently committing to put in $50 billion”
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Multiple sources (The Motley Fool, Wired, and other web results) confirm Microsoft's $13 billion investment. One source explicitly mentions Amazon is in talks to invest up to $50 billion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI Global, LLC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) and a nonprofit foundation, headquartered in San Franci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Codex is an AI coding agent developed by OpenAI for software engineering tasks such as writing code and fixing bugs, released in April 2025 as Codex CLI. Codex is available through ChatGPT's web app, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_(AI_agent)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman. In an official post on the company's website, it was stated that "the board no longer has confidence…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_Ope…
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Claim 10: “Amazon has been a closer partner with Anthropic, backing the creator of Claude since 2023”
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Web search results confirm Amazon's significant financial backing of Anthropic (creator of Claude), including a $2.75 billion investment and a further commitment of up to $25 billion.
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon commits up to $25 billion more to Anthropic, while the AI startup pledges $100 billion in cloud spending on AWS Trainium chips over 10 years.
https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/amazon-invests-up-to-25-b-i…
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon had previously invested $2.75 billion in Anthropic just six months ago. The companies also listed a slew of customers using Anthropic models in conjunction with AWS, including the PGA Tour, Per…
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/amazon-in…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models named Claude and focuses on AI safety.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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Claim 11: “Meta recently introduced Muse Spark, the first proprietary model spawned from Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang”
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Claim 12: “The ChatGPT creator, now valued at more than $850 billion by private investors”
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Two independent cross-references from CNBC explicitly state that OpenAI is now valued at more than $850 billion by private investors.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI o3 is a reflective generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) model developed by OpenAI as a successor to OpenAI o1 for ChatGPT. It is designed to devote additional deliberation time when address…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_o3
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American artificial intelligence (AI) organization OpenAI has released a variety of products and applications since its founding in 2015.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI Global, LLC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) and a nonprofit foundation, headquartered in San Franci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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Claim 13: “The two ex-friends were among a group of techies who created OpenAI as a nonprofit lab in 2015”
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Wikipedia and multiple web sources (Britannica, CNBC) confirm OpenAI was founded in December 2015 as a nonprofit by a group including Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The legal affairs of Elon Musk encompass the legal cases involving Elon Musk as the plaintiff, defendant, or concerning his companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Elon_Musk
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Musk v. Altman is an ongoing lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in which Elon Musk accuses OpenAI and its executives, including CEO Sam Altman, of viol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_v._Altman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI is a book by Karen Hao released on May 20, 2025. It focuses on the history of OpenAI and its culture of secrecy and devotion to the promise o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_AI
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