OpenAI’s $122 Billion Burn Rate Sparks Debate on AI Spending Excesses
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OpenAI’s $122 Billion Burn Rate Sparks Debate on AI Spending Excesses
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2026-04-29 16:15
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On a recent Animal Spirits Podcast episode, co-host Ben Carlson summed up the AI capex worry plainly: “If there’s one obvious risk that’s going to cause excesses to happen in a big downturn, like AI has to be it.” The setup was a Wall Street Journal report flagged by his co-host Michael Batnick: OpenAI raised ... OpenAI’s $122 Billion Burn Rate Sparks Debate on AI Spending Excesses
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Original article published by Yahoo Finance on April 29, 2026. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.