(Part 4 of 5) - News and my thoughts from the past week (17Aug2026)

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08-17

News and my thoughts from the past week (17Aug2026)

OpenAI lost its chief revenue officer, its COO, its product chief, its VP, its head of marketing, its head of ethics, its head of safety, and its chief futurist in the span of a few months. The CRO, Denise Dresser, left after eight months and walked away from what would've been a huge IPO payout. OpenAI is valued at $852 billion and filed its IPO paperwork in June. Investors told CNBC they were surprised by Dresser's exit. - X user Hedgie

Fed official Hammack calls to immediately raise interest rates. - X user Watcher Guru

Jamie Dimon warns America could lose its reserve currency status within 25 years.

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Can AI investment be honored? Who is more worth looking forward to in the financial reports of the four major technology giants?
US technology giants ushered in a period of intensive earnings release. After Google's financial report last week, investors' worries about high capital expenditure and free cash flow pressure heated up. Whether technology giants can prove the liquidity and capital expenditure efficiency of AI business will become the key to this round of financial report. Microsoft and Meta will announce their earnings after the market bell on July 29, and Apple and Amazon will release their latest results after the market bell on July 30. Of these companies, whose performance do you expect the most?
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