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2026-10-31 · Yahoo

AI boom hits a wall on Wall Street as OpenAI cuts fundraising target while Meta gets a credit warning over its cash flow, spending and monetization

The seemingly endless gusher of capital that's been showered on Silicon Valley during the AI boom may be coming to an end soon as Wall Street pushes back on massive spending plans. Following a brutal selloff in tech stocks over the past week, OpenAI slashed the target on its latest fundraising round to $20 billion from $30 billion, sources told the Financial Times. That also cut its expected valuation to $1.25 trillion from $1.4 trillion. The funding round was also upstaged by Anthropic, according to the report, as OpenAI's arch-rival prepares to go public next month. Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic filed an S-1 on Monday that showed revenue has soared and its cash flow turned positive in the first half of this year.

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