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In today’s Daily Report:
🚀 OpenAI’s Make-Or-Break Year?
📊 Understanding AI’s Effects on the Global Economy
📍AI Tier Tracker
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
OPENAI
🚀 OpenAI’s Make-Or-Break Year?
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Beneath OpenAI’s explosive growth lies a brutal accounting headache: the revenue rocket that’s fueled by burning cash.
Key Details:
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar announced that OpenAI reached over $20 billion in annualized revenue during 2025. This represents a staggering 233% YoY increase, outpacing the historical growth curves of even the most dominant Silicon Valley unicorns.
OpenAI’s also losing money on Pro Plans and is projected to accumulate more than $115 billion in losses by 2029. Although more than 800 million people rely on ChatGPT every week, less than 5% upgrade to a paid tier.
Why It’s Important:
OpenAI’s losing about 3x more money than it’s making. The main challenge lies within the conversion bottleneck: 95% of those relying on ChatGPT, which generates roughly 70% of OpenAI’s ARR, aren’t paying a dime.
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ANTHROPIC
📊 Understanding AI’s Effects on the Global Economy
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Anthropic recently explored how AI’s transforming the global economy. Let’s dive into the three main takeaways they uncovered!
Key Details:
There’s a strong positive correlation between GDP Per Capita and AI usage. For instance, around a 1% increase in the average economic output per person correlates to approximately a 0.7% increase in Claude usage.
Automation now surpasses augmentation across the corporate sector. For instance, roughly 77% of simple business tasks are “automation-dominant,” with AI integrated directly into the software stack to handle processes without a human “middleman.” Despite this, about 52% of consumer Claude users still prefer augmentation, leveraging AI as a creative partner.
The more complex tasks yield greater time savings from AI, a phenomenon referred to as the “Speedup” Paradox. For instance, high school-level tasks see a 9x speedup, while college-level tasks see a 12x speedup. Even though high school-level tasks attain about a 70% success rate while college-level tasks hover around 66%, the time saved far exceeds the time required for human review.
Why It’s Important:
For the past 15 years, U.S. labor productivity growth has been “stagnant,” hovering around 0.5% to 0.8%. Even with cloud computing advances that led to the SaaS boom during the 2010s, we didn’t actually get much “faster” at completing our work.
THE STOCK MARKET
📍AI Tier Tracker
TIER 0: ENERGY Bloom Energy Corp. |
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TIER 1: SILICON Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. |
TIER 2: DATA CENTERS Applied Digital Corp. |
TIER 3: AI MODELS Microsoft Corp. |
TIER 4: SOFTWARE STACK Snowflake Inc. |
TIER 5: AI AGENTS SoundHound AI, Inc. |
🔔CLOSING BELL: As of 1/20/2026 market close.
💡STOCK SPOTLIGHT: Each tier showcases a new stock every day.
🛠TRENDING TOOLS
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🥪BRIEF BITES
Gartner reported “Worldwide AI Spending,” forecasting global AI investments to reach around $2.52 trillion in 2026, a 44% increase from the prior year.
OpenAI rolled out an “Age-Verification System,” enabling ChatGPT to predict your age and dynamically add extra safety guardrails for children and teens.
OpenAI and ServiceNow inked “Actionable Enterprise AI,” delivering AI-based voice intelligence that helps businesses break through language barriers.
xAI Technical Staff Member Sulaiman Ghori shared “WTF’s Happening at xAI,” which reportedly resulted in his termination for disclosing way too much.
💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Global Atlantic (New York, NY): Risk Sector Analytics Intern, Fall 2026
NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Formal Verification Engineer, Entry-Level
Figure AI (San Jose, CA): Additive Manufacturing Technician, Mid-Level
Mistral AI (Paris, FR): Financial Director of Internal Control, Senior-Level
📒FINAL NOTE
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