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5 Things to Know Before the Opening Bell 7/25/2025

Squawk Pod

CNBC

Business News, Investing, Business, News

4494 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

The 5 things you need to know before the stock market opens today: OpenAI reportedly plans to release GPT-5 next month, Elon Musk’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest-ever global outages, Schwab has announced a stock buyback, health insurer Centene stock is plunging after its second quarter report, and the Astronomer HR executive caught on the Coldplay concert kiss cam has left the company, days after the CEO’s departure. Squawk Box is hosted by Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Follow Squawk Pod for the best moments, interviews and analysis from our TV show in an audio-first format.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin, co-host of Squawk Box, and this is Five Things to Know before today's opening bell.

0:08.0

Reports say that OpenAI is now planning to launch its next big artificial intelligence model as early as next month.

0:14.0

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman saying on X last week that GPT5 would be released, in his words, quote, soon.

0:24.7

In the meantime, Elon Musk's Starlink Internet Service, suffering one of its biggest ever international outages. Tens of thousands of users were kicked offline, and Starlink's

0:29.1

vice president of engineering writing on X that the outage was due to a software failure.

0:34.3

He said the network was back up and running after about two hours.

0:38.2

And the board of Charles Schwab authorizing a new $20 billion stock buyback that replaces the

0:43.6

previous plan. Shares of health insurer centine, they are plunging. The company posted a

0:48.9

surprise loss of 16 cents per share in the most recent quarter. The street had been looking

0:53.7

for a profit of 86 cents per share.

0:55.7

The CEO citing higher medical costs and said that she was disappointed by the results.

1:00.4

And team planning to provide full year guidance during the conference call later today.

1:05.0

And the human resources executive who was caught on camera, if you remember, in that intimate

1:09.8

moment with the CEO of her company,

1:11.9

astronomer at a Coldplay concert has now left the company.

1:15.0

An astronomer's spokesperson telling CNBC, the official is no longer with the firm.

1:19.1

Astronomer's CEO, Andy Byron, was married and has children resigned several days ago.

1:25.2

We're going to be back later today with an all-new SquawkPod, our daily podcast,

1:29.3

featuring the best of Squackbox.

1:31.2

Check it out wherever you get your podcast and listen anytime.

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