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OpenAI's Sam Altman took the stage at DevDay Tuesday laying out a three-part framework he calls models, building, and distribution. With ChatGPT now counting one point two billion weekly users, Altman is making clear this is no longer a research lab — it's a platform play with serious commercial ambitions.
Turning to commodities, sugar futures caught a bid Tuesday with New York world sugar closing up more than two percent and London white sugar hitting a one-week high. The catalyst was a fresh downgrade to European Union sugar beet yields, tightening the supply picture and reminding traders that weather risk in agricultural markets doesn't take a season off.
And in media, Paramount's streaming chief Cindy Holland is out ahead of the company's planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, a deal valued at roughly one hundred ten billion dollars. In her memo to staff, Holland noted that incoming CEO David Ellison is, quote, optimizing for HBO stability — a signal that the combined entity's streaming identity will be shaped around that brand rather than Paramount Plus.
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