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As of 2026-04-20 04:36, Costco Wholesale Corp (COST) is priced at $999,50, with a total market cap of $443,60B, a P/E ratio of 51,71, and a dividend yield of %0,26. Today, the stock price fluctuated between $977,00 and $1.000,70. The current price is %2,30 above the day's low and %0,11 below the day's high, with a trading volume of 2,33M. Over the past 52 weeks, COST has traded between $937,02 to $1.035,78, and the current price is -%3,50 away from the 52-week high.
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Gate News message, April 17 — According to The Information, DeepSeek is in talks to raise at least $300 million at a valuation of $10 billion, a fraction of leading U.S. AI companies: OpenAI commands $852 billion, while Anthropic is valued at up to $800 billion. The valuation gap has sparked investor debate over whether DeepSeek represents a bargain or if American AI firms are overpriced. DeepSeek's R1 model, launched in January 2025, trained for approximately $5.6 million—a fraction of the hundreds of millions typically spent by U.S. laboratories—triggered a market shock that erased nearly $1 trillion in U.S. equity value in a single day, with Nvidia losing close to $600 billion in market capitalization. Since then, performance rankings between U.S. and Chinese models have traded the top position multiple times; as of March 2026, Anthropic's leading model holds just a 2.7% performance advantage, according to Stanford University's 2026 AI Index. On the revenue front, OpenAI reported an annualized run rate of $25 billion in February, while Anthropic surged from $9 billion at end-2025 to $30 billion by March, driven primarily by Claude Code demand. In Q1 2026, just four deals—OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo—accounted for 63% of total capital raised globally. SpaceX-xAI is targeting an IPO valuation potentially exceeding $1.75 trillion, potentially the largest IPO in market history. Some investors have raised concerns about OpenAI's current valuation, with one backer telling the Financial Times that justifying the $852 billion price requires assuming an IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or more. The extreme valuation gap between DeepSeek and American AI leaders is now raising questions about whether speculative appetite, rather than revenue-generating capability, is driving market prices.
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2026-04-16 06:34OpenAI Shifts ChatGPT Ad Model to CPC, Targeting $2.4-2.5B Ad Revenue in 2026
Gate News message, April 16 — OpenAI is transitioning ChatGPT's advertising model from cost-per-impression (CPM) to cost-per-click (CPC), set to be applied to advertisers within days, according to Disinformation. The shift comes as the company faces mounting pressure from a projected $14 billion loss this year, driven by surging computing costs despite ChatGPT's weekly active users approaching 900 million. The move reflects structural challenges with OpenAI's subscription model. While 900 million users engage with ChatGPT weekly, only 5% pay for premium tiers, leaving most users generating costs without revenue. CEO Sam Altman previously noted that even $200-per-month subscribers can incur losses due to high inference costs. OpenAI has set 2026 ad revenue targets of $2.4-2.5 billion, with plans to scale to $11 billion by 2027. OpenAI is also testing action-based ad formats and requiring advertisers to commit $30,000-50,000 monthly spend. The platform separates ads from ChatGPT responses to preserve user trust. Paid tiers (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise) remain ad-free, while Free and ChatGPT Go users see advertisements. Industry analysts view the CPC adoption as a direct challenge to Google and Meta's search and performance ad markets, as AI-generated answers with contextual commercial links may offer higher conversion efficiency than traditional keyword advertising.
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