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Wall Street Breakfast

OpenAI Rejects Robinhood Equity Tokens

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Robinhood (HOOD) ticks lower as OpenAI rejects tokenized equity tokens. (00:20) Alpha and Omega (AOSL) to pay $4.25M to settle with US over export control practices. (01:44) TripAdvisor (TRIP) stock gains after WSJ report of Starboard taking over 9% stake. (02:48)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors

0:06.8

every morning. Good morning. Today is Thursday, July 3rd. I'm Julie Morgan. OpenAI calls foul. Alpha

0:15.0

pays up and Starboard books a seat at TripAdvisor. OpenAI issued a firm statement on Wednesday, denying any

0:24.2

affiliation with the tokenized equity tokens offered by trading platform Robin Hood. OpenAI emphasized

0:31.1

that the tokens do not represent real ownership or equity in the company. The trading platform

0:37.4

began offering tokenized shares of

0:39.7

OpenAI and SpaceX to its users in Europe. OpenAI wrote on X that these OpenAI tokens are

0:46.9

not OpenAI equity and that they did not partner with Robin Hood. They were not involved in this

0:52.7

and they do not endorse it. The company said that

0:55.7

any transfer of OpenAI equity requires their approval and they did not approve any transfer

1:01.5

and warned users to please be careful. In response to OpenAI's post, a Robin Hood spokesperson said that

1:09.5

these tokens give retail investors indirect exposure to

1:13.2

private markets opening up access and are enabled by Robin Hood's ownership stake in a special

1:19.3

purpose vehicle. Robin Hood gained 6.1% on Wednesday and is down 1.5% in pre-market trading.

1:28.2

Robin Hood is also the topic in the Wall Street Breakfast newsletter, our daily one-page

1:33.0

new summary. Be sure to check it out. We're focusing on what Robin Hood's tokenized

1:37.8

stocks means for the industry. You can find a link to the newsletter in show notes.

1:44.2

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor agreed to pay $4.25 million to settle with the U.S. Department of Commerce.

1:51.7

The company allegedly shipped items to China's Huawei Technologies in violation of export rules.

1:57.9

Alpha said it reached a resolution with the Department's Bureau of Industry and

2:02.2

Security or BIS to close its investigation of the company's export control practices.

2:08.7

Alpha and Omega noted that the resolution does not impact its ongoing business operations

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