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Timothy B. Lee's avatar

"Amazon alone spent $89.9b in the quarter." Which line item are you looking at here? I assumed that the "Purchases of property and equipment" line was the capex. It was $35.1 billion in Q3 2025.

Jasper Jackson's avatar

Ah, cheers for flagging. That looks like an error. Will correct!

Drew Spartz's avatar

Great roundup, but I think the most concerning part of OpenAI's transition to a for-profit is that the nonprofit isn't being fairly valued.

The nonprofit is getting ~20% of the for-profit, when a fair number should be more like 50%, which is why Zvi calls it potentially the biggest heist in history.

Jasper Jackson's avatar

Definitely one of the big issues. Something we went into in our longer writeup of the restructure: https://www.transformernews.ai/p/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-openai-restructure-sam-altman-pbc-foundation