OpenAI now expects to burn through around $115 billion through 2029 — a full $80 billion higher than the company had previously estimated. Just how much is that? We created a list of stuff that costs less than OpenAI’s cash burn, which includes Apple’s total current assets, the last 34 quarters of Walmart profit, 11 seasons of NFL TV deals, and more.

No news was good news for US stocks on Monday. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% in what was its fourth-smallest intraday range of 2025, as did the Russell 2000, while the Nasdaq 100 gained 0.5%. Tech was the standout S&P 500 sector ETF, while utilities was the big loser.

Bankers love to put companies together, helping executives piece together acquisitions in pursuit of scale, synergies, and seriously huge advisory fees. And they also don’t mind doing the opposite. 

Indeed, corporate America’s hottest new trend in dealmaking is breaking up. Spin-offs among S&P 500 companies are running at their fastest pace since 2016.

What’s fueling this corporate uncoupling? According to the WSJ, a big driver is activists pushing back against bloated empires. Their argument? Fast-growing divisions get dragged down by sluggish ones, and those much-hyped “synergies” from megamergers hardly show up. That logic has led to some past megamergers being undone.

But whether these corporate divorces actually pay off is another story.

In the first 18-24 months following the split, companies spun off do tend to outperform the S&P 500 by ~10%, according to Trivariate Research — but those early gains might not hold up over longer time horizons. Since its 2015 launch, the S&P US Spin-Off Index — which tracks $1 billion+ S&P 500 companies spun off in the last four years — has lagged behind the main S&P 500 Index.

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As Broadcom enjoys a rush of new orders from a major new customer (reported to be OpenAI), it’s also reveling in a flood of traffic into the stock. On Monday, traders continue to bid up shares in response to the brighter outlook for 2026 revenues, which sent the stock up 9.4% on Friday.

But looking at this from the perspective of near-term cash flows, the market’s view seems off.

Assuming the reporting around OpenAI and Broadcom is accurate, these orders for ASICs don’t look to be displacing what the ChatGPT creator was going to spend on Nvidia’s GPUs, but are just in addition to it!  The money’s not coming out of Jensen Huang’s pockets, it’s coming out of OpenAI’s coffers. Their spending budget is just getting bigger, and Broadcom’s the big winner.

The Alpenglow upgrade revamps solana’s consensus engine to decrease transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, bringing the blockchain network closer to its goal of being an on-chain Nasdaq.

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