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OpenAI Pushes Back on Report Company Missed Key Targets 4/28/26

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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CNBC’s Kate Rooney reports the latest news regarding OpenAI and a Wall Street Journal report that the company missed key revenue and user targets.

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0:00.0

We'll start with the weakness, though, in the AI trade.

0:02.1

This new report focusing on OpenAI's revenue targets.

0:05.0

Kate Rooney has the story for us, Kate.

0:07.5

Have we learned anything more about what those targets are?

0:12.3

Sarah, we didn't have the targets.

0:14.1

It wasn't in the journal's story, whether it was the revenue targets or user growth.

0:17.8

But Open AI did reportedly miss whatever those targets were for user growth

0:22.1

and revenue. This again is according to Wall Street Journal citing unnamed sources here. Any sort of revenue

0:26.9

slowdown is raising some new concerns about Open AI's ability to fulfill spending commitments.

0:32.5

The headlines hitting shares of Oracle this morning. They've got a five-year partnership with

0:36.6

Open AI. I've got NVIDIA, Broadcom, AMD, all lower. It does highlight just how important Open AI is.

0:43.1

And this company is to its, and the mega spending that it has been doing to the entire AI ecosystem.

0:49.1

You're seeing that reflected in the stocks. Open AI has hit back hard guys on this report,

0:53.8

the statement to CNBC they gave us

0:55.3

this morning telling us that this is, quote, ridiculous. We are totally aligned, they say,

1:00.5

on buying as much compute as we can and working hard on it together every day. That is a joint

1:05.6

statement from Sarah Fryer and Sam Altman, CEO and CFO, an OpenAI spokesperson also pointing

1:10.2

us to Open AI's recent

1:11.9

$122 billion fundraise. That's the total that is the most that any company has ever raised,

1:17.6

at least in private markets, they're spending that on compute. And CFO's Sarah Fryer's stance

1:21.6

has been that compute is a strategic moat versus rivals like Anthropic that have been spending

1:26.5

less. Here's how she framed it just last week on this show, guys.

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