{"id":146052,"date":"2026-08-20T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/146052\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:40:35","slug":"tech-stocks-today-openais-growth-disappoints-chip-stock-slide-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/146052\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech stocks today: OpenAI&#8217;s growth disappoints, chip stock slide continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Tech stocks rose slightly Wednesday, but semiconductor stocks continued to slide following a 5% drop Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">OpenAI&#8217;s latest revenue growth numbers didn&#8217;t win many fans among investors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/openais-second-quarter-sales-show-tepid-growth-compared-with-anthropic-5cb42998?mod=tech_lead_pos4\" data-ylk=\"slk:according%20to%20The%20Wall%20Street%20Journal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;cpos:1;pos:1;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;according to The Wall Street Journal&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"link\">according to The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The company reported Q2 revenue of $6.7 billion, up 18% from the prior quarter. Rival Anthropic, meanwhile, is reportedly pulling in huge revenue numbers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-14\/anthropic-revenue-ahead-of-ipo-surges-over-14-fold-in-second-quarter\" data-ylk=\"slk:According%20to%20Bloomberg;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;cpos:2;pos:1;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;According to Bloomberg&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"link\">According to Bloomberg<\/a>, the company saw its preliminary quarterly revenue jump 14x to $11.5 billion from $787 million a year ago.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The AI lab is preparing to go public in September or October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/840ac156-af1c-4a82-b260-ae791072fcfa?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" data-ylk=\"slk:and%20The%20Financial%20Times%20reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;cpos:3;pos:1;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;and The Financial Times reports&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"link\">and The Financial Times reports<\/a> that investors are targeting a $2 trillion valuation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Meta&#8217;s social media addiction trial continued today in Oakland, Calif., today following opening remarks Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The first witness to take the stand for the plaintiffs, former Meta engineer Arturo B\u00e9jar, testified that he had raised concerns about content on the company&#8217;s platforms and said after his own daughter made an Instagram account and began receiving explicit messages and images from different users.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">A collection of 29 state attorneys general is suing the social media giant over claims that it purposely developed its services to keep children online as long as possible and caused psychological harm. The trial is a test case for that larger suit and involves the attorneys general from four states.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Meta claims that the trial could leave it exposed to as much as $1.4 trillion in damages, but the state attorneys general dispute that number.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tech stocks rose slightly Wednesday, but semiconductor stocks continued to slide following a 5% drop Tuesday. 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