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Cerebras Falls Below Its IPO Price as an OpenAI Scare Collides With Insider Selling

Cerebras shares fell below their $185 IPO price this week as a SemiAnalysis report questioning OpenAI's hardware choice collided with a major lockup expiration and tens of millions in insider stock sales — even as the company's $25.4 billion backlog gives some analysts reason to see the selloff as overdone.

DDesk2 Oct 2026 · 09:57 ET4 min read
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Wall Street Piles Into Micron as the AI Memory "Hypercycle" Fuels a Blowout Quarter

A wave of Wall Street price-target hikes followed Micron's blowout fiscal Q4 report, with Rosenblatt setting a Street-high $1,900 target as analysts point to an AI memory "hypercycle," a secured 2027 revenue backlog, and blockbuster forward guidance.

DDesk2 Oct 2026 · 09:32 ET3 min read
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Synopsys Pairs an OpenAI Chip-Design Deal With a Bold 2030 Growth Plan

Synopsys shares jumped as much as 7% after the company unveiled GPT-Synopsys, a chip-design AI model built with OpenAI, alongside a new multi-year plan targeting 15% annual revenue growth and a $1 billion near-term buyback.

DDesk30 Sept 2026 · 23:33 ET4 min read
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Inside Anthropic's IPO Filing: A $518B Spending Plan and Founder Control

Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows revenue up twelvefold to $4.59 billion alongside a $42 billion net loss and a $518 billion infrastructure spending plan — plus a Founder LLC structure that would give its seven co-founders 50.1% voting control after the company goes public.

DDesk29 Sept 2026 · 10:45 ET3 min read
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OpenAI's Revenue Run Rate Nears $70B, Retaking the Lead From Anthropic

OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate is nearing $70 billion after surging more than 70% since Q3, driven by enterprise sales that more than doubled — putting it ahead of Anthropic's $65 billion figure from July on this closely watched, if imprecise, metric.

DDesk29 Sept 2026 · 10:45 ET2 min read
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FICO Shares Sink 20% as Fannie and Freddie Move to a Unified Scoring Grid

Fair Isaac shares sank as much as 20% premarket after FHFA said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will merge their mortgage pricing grids into one that puts VantageScore on equal footing with Classic FICO — the second major blow to FICO's mortgage-scoring dominance this month.

DDesk29 Sept 2026 · 09:07 ET3 min read
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