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OpenAI said to top $25B annualized revenue by end-Feb.
Bay Area Times
March 05, 2026
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Top stories today:
- OpenAI said to top $25B annualized revenue by end-Feb.
- GPT-5.4 in development with “extreme” reasoning, 1M-token context
- Apple unveils $599+ MacBook Neo with A18 Pro chip, 16hr battery
- Anthropic gains Big Tech backing as Amodei blasts OpenAI DoW deal
- Google cuts Play Store commissions, allows alternative app stores
- Neura Robotics said to raise €1B at ~€4B valuation backed by Tether
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1. OpenAI said to top $25B annualized revenue by end-Feb.
~$30B would be OpenAI’s annualized revenue if based on last week’s spike, though it typically multiplies the past 4 weeks by 12.
~920M were reportedly ChatGPT’s weekly active users at end-Feb.
OpenAI reportedly held talks with The Trade Desk on ads that could double ChatGPT consumer revenue to $17B.
ChatGPT is scaling back Instant Checkout, shifting purchases to partner apps.
OpenAI is reportedly negotiating additional DoW safeguards against domestic surveillance.
OpenAI’s $30B investment “might be the last” as it gears up for an IPO, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said separately.
Q4 IPO expected as OpenAI has reportedly picked Cooley and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to prepare its listing.
NVIDIA’s $10B investment in Anthropic would also likely be its last, Huang said.
From AI data centers to EVs, energy storage demand’s exploding, and lithium powers it all.
Now Morgan Stanley estimates the market will face an 80k-ton shortfall this year alone. With 5X demand growth expected by 2040, the deficit is just starting.
Great timing for EnergyX. Their patented tech can recover up to 3X more lithium than traditional methods in a fraction of the time, earning a $1B private valuation and investment from leaders like General Motors and POSCO.
Now they’re preparing for commercial production on up to 9.8M tons of lithium in Chile.
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This compensation and any current or future ownership interest could create a conflict of interest. Please consider this disclosure alongside EnergyX’s offering materials. EnergyX’s Regulation A offering has been qualified by the SEC. Offers and sales may be made only by the qualified offering circular. Before investing, carefully review the offering circular, including the risk factors. The offering circular is available at invest.energyx.com/.
Comparisons to other companies are for informational purposes only. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.
3. GPT-5.4 said in development by OpenAI with “extreme” reasoning, 1M-token context
Representational image generated using ChatGPT.
The “extreme” mode would spend more time and compute on tough questions.
It could attract more enterprise users building agents and automating complex tasks.
Google and Anthropic already offer 1M-token context windows on some models.
Earlier OpenAI models, including GPT-4.1, had 1M tokens before GPT-5.2 cut it to 400K.
