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BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: Microsoft disclosed 45% of future Azure contracts are tied to OpenAI
“They revealed that they booked ten billion cash gain from the amount of cash OpenAI has on this balance sheet due to all these, like, huge fundraisings that they're doing. But they also said that 45% of their future Azure contracts were based on OpenAI.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 27:27 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: SpaceX is targeting a $50B raise at a $1.5T valuation
“Yeah, I mean, we're hearing 50, potentially raising fifty billion at a 1.5 trillion valuation.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 52:31 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Held up
Morris: OpenAI will not declare GPT-5 as AGI
“I hate to make bold predictions, especially in tech, because you can often be spectacularly wrong, but I do not think they're going to say GPT-V is anything approaching AGI, however you choose to define it.”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 12:19 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: OpenAI redefined Stargate to include any rented data center
“Part of the reason they're able to claim Stargate is off the ground is because they changed the definition of it. Previously, it had to involve open AI, Oracle, the data center provider, SoftBank, the financier and MGX, which is a huge New sovereign wealth or …”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 29:35 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: Suleyman's Healthcare AI Diagnosed Rare Ailments 4x Better Than Doctors
“And what they were able to do is take the most complicated sort of doc Like house level, you know, the TV show house level, weird medical ailments that affect one person every six years. And they were able to diagnose them, you know, at a rate like four times …”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 44:06 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: AI Overviews and Mode Are Increasing Google Search Engagement
“The way that they've integrated AI into search, whether it's the overviews, the bullet points at the top of your results, or the AI mode, which you can click on, and then it just behaves like GPT, Gemini, or Claude. It's actually Boosting engagement. People ar…”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 47:49 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Held up
Morris: Google Will Lose Exclusive Safari Search Deal from Antitrust Remedies
“They're going to have to share more data with rivals. They're going to lose the right to be Apple's exclusive search engine provider on Safari across its devices.”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 49:08 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: Tesla Board Is Preparing a New Pay Package for Musk
“We reported that far from looking for a new CEO the board is actually looking at giving him a new pay package.”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 54:39 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: Microsoft on track for $140B CapEx this fiscal year
“Microsoft is on track to spend a hundred and forty billion this fiscal year, which their fiscal year is a bit weird. It runs from to June instead of to December. And that's pretty much with on track with what they spent in the last quarter of last year, which …”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 26:54 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: Google and Blue Origin are also exploring data centers in space
“Google's also looking at it. Jeff Bezos is looking at doing it through, you know, through his blue blue origin rocket company.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 51:07 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Partly supported
Morris: OpenAI front-ran Google's Math Olympiad announcement by three days
“And then you have open AI, like using the same system, not officially entering, not subjecting itself to the same type of controls and scrutiny and front running Google's announcement by three days.”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 42:17 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Partly supported
Morris: Suleyman has 6,000-7,000 Microsoft reports, poached 23 from DeepMind
“I think Mustafa Suleiman now has six or 7000 people reporting to him. And just this week, I reported that they'd poached another 23 from DeepMind.”
Stephen Morris Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 58:46 Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Morris: Microsoft Owns 27% of Restructured OpenAI
“Microsoft is going to put a few billion in we here, but you know, not too much more because obviously they already own 27% of the restructured company.”
Stephen Morris Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 15:31 The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
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