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Signal: The money is now raised in private and paid for in public: a $100bn Gulf pitch, a dead float, and PCs down 20%.
OpenAI's Run Rate Is $50BN, Not $68BN
OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue reached about $50bn at the end of September, roughly $20bn below the number widely reported last month, and Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave, AMD and Broadcom all sank on it.
TechCrunch: Anthropic counts cloud-partner sales in its run rate, OpenAI does not

Firmus Kills Its Float, Hunts Private Cash
Australia's biggest listing since Telstra in 1997 was withdrawn a day after books closed, and Firmus will now chase private money instead - two of seven sites running, about $30bn of debt still to come, and Nvidia holding 7.2%.
Guardian: early investors were set to use the retail float as their exit CNBC: Firmus will chase private capital instead
OpenAI Pulls Three of Its 722 Math Papers
A day after dumping 722 manuscripts on 372 unsolved problems, OpenAI withdrew three for a sign error that invalidated one argument and the construction two dependent papers relied on - as a mathematicians' body was telling researchers to refuse the release.
Indian Express: a maths body told researchers to reject the lot
Fake Bylines Got Real Outlets to Run Propaganda
OpenAI banned a Russian network that fabricated audio and documents until politicians in Ecuador and Peru responded - its first category-5 case in two and a half years - and an Iranian one that placed nearly 100 articles under seven invented journalists.
NPR: Russian operatives used ChatGPT to write progress reports to their own bosses
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