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Anthropic and OpenAI made this accusation seven months ago. Both AI labs told Washington that Chinese firms were quietly harvesting their models to train rivals, and for months, the claim sat as a private-sector complaint. This week, the U.S. government put its name on it.

The National Security Agency, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a joint advisory on Tuesday, Sept. 8, accusing six China-based AI developers of extracting proprietary capabilities from American models at what the agencies called an industrial scale.

The agencies named DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba (BABA), MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI, Bloomberg reported.

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The technique is called distillation, where a cheaper model learns from a more capable one, a common and legitimate practice industrywide. What the advisory alleges is different: routing millions of queries through proxies and fraudulent accounts to extract billions of tokens from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024.

The advisory also took direct aim at DeepSeek’s origin story. Its widely cited $5.6 million training cost for the R1 model excludes the true cost of data it allegedly acquired through distillation, the agencies said.

The other four firms named face similar allegations:

Moonshot AI has extracted Claude and GPT data since mid-2025 to train its Kimi models, drawing specifically on Anthropic’s Fable models, the advisory says.

MiniMax pulled reasoning and coding data from Claude and Gemini models, then tried to convince Claude Code it was a MiniMax product, per the advisory.

StepFun targeted Claude and GPT coding capabilities between late 2025 and early 2026, the same advisory states.

Z.AI extracted billions of tokens from GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus by mid-2026, one of the most active campaigns the agencies identified.

Washington just co-signed a private sector complaint

None of this is new information. I wrote in June about Anthropic’s accusation that operators tied to Alibaba’s Qwen lab generated 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts, the largest distillation campaign the company had documented, first reported by Bloomberg.

Anthropic had already named DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax in February for a comparable campaign, according to Fortune.

What changed this week is the source, not the substance. A blog post from a private company carries no legal weight. A joint advisory from the NSA, the FBI and CISA is a formal government finding, and that distinction matters more to investors than facts that were already public.

US intelligence agencies formally accused six Chinese AI firms of copying American models, corroborating claims Anthropic and OpenAI raised months earlier.Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images

Alibaba’s shareholders just gained a key exhibit

Alibaba is the only name on the list that trades on a major U.S. exchange, making this more than a policy story.

A securities class action already accuses Alibaba of calling unauthorized distillation a hypothetical risk in its annual report while the conduct was allegedly ongoing, according to a press release announcing the suit.

Alibaba’s American depositary shares have fallen roughly 45% from their high over the past year, according to the same press release, with most of that decline coming after Bloomberg first reported Anthropic’s letter to Congress in June.

The stock closed at $112.47 on Tuesday, still far from a recovery.

A government advisory that corroborates the same allegation hands plaintiffs’ attorneys something they lacked in June: a federal finding instead of a company’s letter. The lead plaintiff deadline is October 5.

Sanctions talk collides with an industry that disagrees

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in July that the administration could sanction Chinese AI firms and add them to the Entity List if distillation crossed into IP theft, telling CNBC officials that it has “the ability to sanction them because of this theft.” That threat now has an intelligence finding behind it, not just a cable interview.

Not everyone in the industry agrees with the framing. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has called distillation fundamental to intelligence itself, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has argued that labs restricting distillation in their own terms built their models by training on data scraped from the open web, according to SiliconANGLE.

That tension matters for timing. The advisory lands weeks before an expected Trump-Xi meeting, and enforcement could become a bargaining chip rather than an immediate priority.

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The real fight is over who owns a model’s output

Chip export controls tried to slow China’s AI progress by restricting hardware. Distillation enforcement, if it materializes, would restrict something harder to police: a model’s output, generated the instant someone sends it a query.

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google built their businesses on the assumption that access to a model does not mean access to what trained it.

This advisory is the clearest signal yet that Washington intends to treat that assumption as a legal boundary, not a technical one.

Whether it can enforce that boundary against firms it does not regulate, without disrupting a relationship it is actively managing with Beijing, is the question this story leaves open.

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OpenAI’s newest model just gave Wall Street a fresh reason to debate which chipmakers actually win in the AI race. Jim Cramer weighed in with a clear answer on live television.

His picks reflect two very different roles the same handful of companies now play in building and running the biggest AI models on the planet.

Cramer names Nvidia and Broadcom as GPT-6 Astra’s biggest winners

Jim Cramer identified Nvidia and Broadcom as the two stocks most likely to benefit from OpenAI’s rollout of its GPT-6 Astra model, making the call on CNBC’s “Morning Meeting” on Sept. 8, CNBC reported.

Nvidia’s role centers on training. Astra was built using roughly 100,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems, according to CEO Jensen Huang, who also posted on X (the former Twitter) that another 400,000 chips are being brought online.

Cramer read the figure as a genuine demand signal rather than simply a one-time order, according to Huang’s post.

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Cramer made his preference plain. “The stock that I think you should be buying is Nvidia,” he said, according to CNBC. “It didn’t do anything wrong at all. If anything, it’s doing the right thing. It’s the reason why OpenAI is doing so well.”

The market split on the two calls that same day. Nvidia shares fell almost 2% to $225.80 during the Sept. 8 session, while Broadcom gained nearly 3% to close at $368.17, CNBC reported.

Broadcom’s Jalapeno chip tells a different story

Broadcom’s connection to Astra runs through inference rather than training. The company developed a custom chip called Jalapeno with OpenAI, designed specifically for the day-to-day work of running finished models rather than building them.

Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes wrote that Astra’s strong reception should improve OpenAI’s odds of a successful 2027 IPO.

Cramer has not always been convinced Jalapeno poses a real threat to Nvidia. Responding to OpenAI’s own benchmark claims about the chip weeks earlier, he dismissed the challenge as “big hat, no cattle,” arguing the real barrier facing any rival chip is displacing customers already embedded in Nvidia’s ecosystem, TheStreet reported.

OpenAI has claimed real performance gains from the chip regardless. The company said Jalapeno delivers 1.5 to 1.9 times more AI work per watt than systems built on Nvidia’s GB200 and GB300 chips, along with meaningfully lower latency across several benchmark models, CNBC reported.

Broadcom’s customer rankings show why Wall Street is watching the relationship closely. CEO Hock Tan has said Anthropic is set to overtake Google as Broadcom’s largest XPU customer in 2027 and hold that position through 2028, with OpenAI expected to rank second among Broadcom’s custom silicon clients that same year, according to CNBC.

Broadcom’s customer rankings show why Wall Street is watching the relationship closelyNurPhoto / Getty Images

Broadcom’s own numbers back up the bull case

Broadcom’s most recent earnings report gave investors a mixed reaction, despite strong underlying growth. AI chip revenue more than tripled year over year to $16.7 billion in the fiscal third quarter, yet shares still slid after Q4 guidance of $21.7 billion came in below the $22 to $23 billion analysts had been projecting.

Tan told investors AI semiconductor revenue should hit $115 billion in fiscal 2027 and roughly double again to $230 billion in fiscal 2028. He also said actual customer demand already exceeds those targets. Supply, not orders, is what is constraining growth right now, according to CNBC.

The gigawatt figures behind those targets are specific. Anthropic plans to deploy 5 gigawatts of Broadcom TPU 8i-designed chips in 2027 and another 10 gigawatts in 2028, while OpenAI is expected to deploy 1.3 gigawatts of Jalapeno capacity in 2027, CNBC reported.

Not every analyst brushed off the risks in Tan’s comments. KeyBanc’s John Vinh kept an Overweight rating on Broadcom but flagged the chance that Google could shift more of its own chip business toward MediaTek-based silicon, naming Nvidia as his preferred stock in the group instead.

What it means for chip investors

Cramer also holds Intel and Micron in his charitable trust alongside Nvidia and Broadcom. Four chip stocks. He is not picking one winner. He is spread across the stack because he thinks the whole wave is real, not just one corner of it.

That view carries real weight for anyone holding these stocks, since so much of the bull case still runs through one customer’s fortunes. OpenAI’s enormous infrastructure commitments have made investors sensitive to its competitive standing against Anthropic and open-source rivals, given how directly the lab’s ability to keep raising capital depends on staying near the frontier of AI research.

Nvidia fell 2% on the same day Broadcom gained 3%. Same customer. Same model launch. Opposite stock moves.

That is the part of this trade most investors do not think about until it happens to them. Being right about the AI buildout does not tell you which supplier in the stack gets paid first.

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Warren Buffett gave investors a remarkably simple warning 25 years ago.

Now the market has blown straight through it.

In a 2001 Fortune article, Buffett called the value of publicly traded U.S. stocks relative to the economy “probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment,” Business Insider noted.

His danger zone was clear: Investors were “playing with fire” if the ratio hit 200%.

GuruFocus data through October 2023 show that a frequently tracked version of the metric was 238.2% as of Sept. 4. Another computation puts it close to 241%, showing how various methodologies can yield different results.

In any case, equities have shot over the threshold that Buffett originally tied to high valuations.

But there’s another figure that investors should consider.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) (BRK.B) held $359.2 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and U.S. Treasury bills at the end of June. Together, they suggest a more fascinating question than whether Buffett is forecasting a disaster.

That is, what happens to future returns when investors pay historically extraordinary prices for the American economy?

Warren Buffett drew his line at 200%

The so-called Buffett Indicator measures the worth of publicly listed U.S. enterprises against U.S. economic production.

The principle is simple. Stocks are claims on companies, and those firms function within an economy. As their total market value rises far faster than economic production, investors are paying larger and larger multiples for those claims.

Buffett wrote about the friendship in Fortune in 2001, according to Business Insider.

The 70%-to-80% range has traditionally been great purchasing area, he noted. But as the ratio neared 200% on the eve of the dot-com boom, investors were playing with fire.

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At roughly 238%, today’s reading is about 19% above Buffett’s old 200% warning threshold.

That doesn’t automatically imply a crash is on the way.

The indication itself is somewhat limited. American corporations earn significantly more abroad now than they did decades ago, and interest rates and changes in the mix of public and private business might affect what’s considered a sensible price.

But it’s difficult to see beyond the size.

Berkshire Hathaway has $359 billion waiting

Buffett’s actions are another element of the picture.

Berkshire’s insurance and other operations ended June with $359.2 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and Treasury bills. That contrasts with $340.8 billion invested in equity and fixed-maturity securities (excluding equity-method investments).

Put another way, Berkshire’s war chest of cash is still substantial, even after putting capital back to work.

The company bought OxyChem for $9.4 billion in January and Taylor Morrison Home for $6.8 billion in July, CNBC confirmed. Berkshire bought $4.8 billion of Treasury stock in the first half, mostly in the second quarter.

This is a key difference.

Buffett’s big cash balance doesn’t indicate he thinks all stocks are expensive. Berkshire is still discovering particular plays.

It does, however, show the organization’s selectivity.

Buffett delivered a similar message at Berkshire’s annual meeting in May, warning about increased speculative behavior in financial markets and saying gambling activity was distorting pricing and making it tougher to locate good assets.

Warren Buffett’s old market warning suddenly looks much more relevant.JOHANNES EISELE / Getty Images

The Buffett Indicator carries an important catch

That 238% statistic makes for very scary comparison to the dot-com bubble.

But investors should not see it as a countdown clock.

Since Buffett initially called attention to the metric, the structure of corporate America has altered substantially. U.S. corporations today produce a big chunk of their revenues abroad, but the gauge relates those global companies to economic activity at home.

That can structurally lift the ratio higher.

The Buffett Indicator is a better measure of valuation than a measure of market timing.

And here is where today’s reading is more helpful.

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A costly market might continue to become pricier. It can also provide robust profit growth that ultimately justifies some of those premiums.

Harder is what usually makes beginning prices higher, without correspondingly extraordinary profit growth, to provide exceptional long-term gains.

That would put immense pressure on the AI growth.

Investors aren’t only wagering that artificial intelligence will revolutionize the economy. At present levels, they are increasingly gambling that corporations can make enough revenues from that change to justify prices that already indicate huge confidence.

Buffett’s warning isn’t really about a crash

The temptation is to make the Buffett Indicator a forecast that equities are poised to fall.

Buffett never made such a promise to investors. His initial thesis was about the link between the price paid by investors and the return they may anticipate. That difference is especially relevant now.

Berkshire isn’t just standing still. Sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in cash, it has bought shares and made acquisitions. It’s more about selection than plain bearishness.

Perhaps the most beneficial interpretation is a 238% reading.

Extreme values don’t have to wait for a market crisis to become relevant. Returns may be disappointing, because it takes years for earnings to catch up to prices, because multiples shrink, or because better possibilities finally appear elsewhere.

Buffett has been banking those same moments for decades.

This is a market that may go higher from here. But with his famed valuation metric more than 40 percentage points above the threshold he previously deemed “playing with fire,” investors are paying a price Buffett once thought remarkable.

And Berkshire still has $359 billion on the sidelines for something better.

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When Sandra Bullock was in high school, her classmates voted her Class Clown. But while the much-loved actor and producer became famous for her roles in comedies and rom-coms, her biggest payday actually came from a dramatic role.

Bullock co-starred with George Clooney in the 2013 sci-fi thriller Gravity, a story about two astronauts stranded in space. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bullock reportedly received $20 million up front, along with 15% of the film’s first-dollar gross. Since the movie ultimately earned more than $700 million at the box office, Bullock could have taken home more than $70 million in total compensation.

But even though Bullock hasn’t appeared on screen in four years, that doesn’t mean her out-of-this-world earning power has disappeared.

On September 10, 2026, Bullock returns to the big screen in Practical Magic 2, reuniting with friend and on-screen sister Nicole Kidman nearly three decades after the original film’s debut. As with the first Practical Magic, Bullock isn’t just starring — she’s also producing, this time alongside Kidman — giving both actors an opportunity to profit from the next installment of the beloved franchise.

So, what’s Sandra Bullock’s net worth in 2026, and how much has she made from her decades on screen?

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Sandra Bullock’s 2026 net worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, the online source for celebrity wealth, Sandra Bullock has an estimated net worth of $250 million in 2026.

She regularly commands between $10 million and $20 million per film and was twice named by Forbes as Hollywood’s Highest Paid Actress: in 2010, following her Oscar-winning turn in The Blind Side, and in 2014, for Gravity.

What makes Bullock’s net worth particularly remarkable is that she doesn’t participate in endorsement deals. She does, however, have lucrative side ventures that reflect her many interests, including a production company, Fortis Films, which has been behind projects like Hope Floats (1998), Practical Magic (1998), Miss Congeniality (2000), Two Weeks Notice (2002), The Lost City (2022), Practical Magic 2 (2026) and The George Lopez Show on ABC.

Bullock also owns a bakery and flower shop in downtown Austin, Texas, and she has an extensive real estate portfolio, which she began amassing in the 1990s (more on that below).

But it’s safe to say the majority of Bullock’s wealth stems from her four-decade career in Hollywood —and her ever-increasing film paychecks.

Sandra Bullock’s film salaries

FilmYearDirectorBudgetBox officeSandra Bullock’s reported upfront salarySandra Bullock’s estimated total compensationSpeed1994Jan de Bont$30–$37 million$350.4 million$500,000Not disclosedSpeed 2: Cruise Control1997Jan de Bont$110–$160 million$164.5 million$10.5 millionNot disclosedMiss Congeniality 22005John Pasquin$45–$60 million$101.4 million$17.5 millionNot disclosedThe Proposal2009Anne Fletcher$40 million$317 millionNot disclosedNot disclosed*The Blind Side2009John Lee Hancock$29 million$309 million$5 millionMore than $25 million Gravity2013Alfonso Cuarón$100 million$723 million$20 million$70 million Minions2015Pierre Coffin & Kyle Balda$74 million$1.159 billion$10 millionNot disclosedThe Lost City2022Aaron and Adam Nee$68–$74 million$192.9 million$20 millionNot disclosed*

Sandra Bullock’s early life and film career

Sandra Annette Bullock was born on July 26, 1964, in Arlington, Virginia. Her mother, Helga, was an opera singer, while her father, John, was stationed in the U.S. Army. Along with Bullock’s sister Gesine, the family lived on U.S. Army bases in Germany and Austria for the first 12 years of her life.

Bullock frequently traveled with her mother on concert tours and became enamored with show business. She took voice and ballet lessons and later studied drama at East Carolina University. After leaving college, Bullock moved to New York to audition for roles while waiting tables.

A few years later, she landed a role in the off-Broadway play No Time Flat. She also caught the attention of director Alan Levi, who cast her in the 1989 TV movie Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.

Bullock was off to Hollywood. After appearing in a few indie films, she landed the role that would make her a star: Annie Porter in Speed (1994), the blockbuster about a city bus rigged to explode if its speedometer dropped below 50 mph.

Sandra Bullock’s personal life

Bullock had romances with several of her co-stars, including Tate Donovan, who she met while filming Love Potion No. 9 (1992), Matthew McConaughey, her A Time to Kill (1996) co-star, and Ryan Gosling, who appeared with her in Murder by Numbers (2002). She also dated NFL quarterback Troy Aikman.

Bullock married Monster Garage host Jesse James in 2005. It seemed like a case of opposites attract: America’s Sweetheart and the tattooed motorcycle builder. But in 2010, reports surfaced that James had engaged in multiple extramarital affairs; he responded by issuing a public apology to Bullock. She filed for divorce later that year.

Bullock and James had also begun the process of adopting their son, Louis (b. 2010). Following their separation, Bullock continued the adoption as a single parent. In 2015, she adopted a daughter, Laila (b. 2012).

That same year marked the beginning of Bullock’s relationship with photographer Bryan Randall. The couple remained together until Randall’s death from ALS in 2023, following his three-year battle with the disorder, which he asked be kept private.

Sandra Bullock’s real estate portfolio

According to Architectural Digest, Bullock’s real estate portfolio has included at least 17 properties across the United States, collectively worth tens of millions. She also told the publication she would have been an architect had it not been for acting, because both jobs have one thing in common: “They both require everyone working toward the same story,” she said.

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Over the years, Bullock has owned a sprawling compound in Tybee Island, Georgia, an estate near Austin, Texas, a million-dollar ranch house in the Hollywood Hills, an avocado farm outside of San Diego, a Gothic mansion in New Orleans, and a hilltop hideaway in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

She currently owns a $3.35 million SoHo townhouse and a $5.3 million Malibu beach cottage she uses as a rental property. No surprise it currently has a tenant.

Intel spent years struggling to regain its technology edge as investors fretted about lost market share, manufacturing problems, and eroding profitability.

Now the company faces a very different problem.

Maybe it got too few chips.

Intel (INTC) shares surged 9.1% to $104.47 on Sept. 8, even as the broader market declined, after DigiTimes reported that Intel is preparing to raise prices on PC processors by another 10% in October. Intel could also discontinue lower-margin Small Core products.

The reported increase would be the latest in a string of price moves since late 2025, including an approximately 10% hike in the first quarter. Intel has not confirmed the latest reported move.

A 10% price hike normally wouldn’t get this sort of excitement in a semiconductor stock.

But Intel’s own filings explain why investors are paying attention.

Its server products saw average selling prices surge 48% year over year last quarter, while server volume rose 9%. Demand has exceeded available supply, Intel said.

That suggests the latest price increase is potentially less about passing along costs and more about something Wall Street has been waiting years to see from Intel: pricing power.

Intel is charging more even as the PC market stays weak

The surprise about Intel’s situation is the absence of a growth in conventional PC demand.

RBC Capital Markets analyst Srini Pajjuri described PC and smartphone demand as “weak but stable.” Laptop output has been below average levels, while demand for desktop computers seems especially poor.

But Intel has already proved it can charge greater pricing.

Client computing revenue in the second quarter was $7.7 billion, up $1.1 billion year-over-year. Average selling prices rose 27%, more than making up for an 8% fall in unit volume.

Intel said that most of the rise came from consumers purchasing a better mix of premium items, although price hikes driven by demand also helped.

The reported October rise would carry that plan even farther.

DigiTimes also said that Intel may kill its low-margin Small Core products as CEO Lip-Bu Tan focuses on boosting profitability rather than chasing sales.

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That would signify a major strategic shift.

Intel has spent years battling to retain market dominance against Advanced Micro Devices and the growing threat of Arm-based chips.

But the new plan seems to be the opposite: offer fewer low-margin items, focus on limited production capacity, and charge more where demand exists.

AI has created a much bigger opportunity for Intel

The true price story is unfolding within data centers.

Intel’s Data Center and AI division saw a $2 billion year-over-year boost in server sales in the second quarter. Server unit volumes were up 9%, and average selling prices were up 48%.

A higher-end product mix, supplemented by demand-based pricing, mostly drove the rise.

More crucially, Intel indicated that server demand outpaced its available supply due to internal restrictions. The business is also boosting plant capacity but anticipates larger industry supply limitations to remain throughout next year.

MarketWatch says that the amount of Intel x86 server CPUs is projected to rise between 15% and 20% as vendors struggle to fulfill demand driven in part by agentic AI and inference.

That leaves Intel in a difficult position during the AI boom.

GPUs remain paired with CPUs for general-purpose computing within data centers; Nvidia (NVDA) dominates AI accelerators. As inference workloads increase, demand might spill over from GPUs onto servers, networking, memory, and conventional CPUs.

Intel doesn’t need to dethrone Nvidia for its AI business to see a massive improvement.

It only needs the AI infrastructure buildout to keep gobbling up more compute.

Intel’s 48% pricing jump changes the turnaround storyBloomberg / Getty Images

Intel’s 183% rally raises the stakes

The shift hasn’t gone unnoticed by investors.

Intel shares are up approximately 183% in 2026 thus far, making a long-running recovery tale one among the year’s largest semiconductor rallies.

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Part of that confidence is based on the company’s most recent financial reports.

Intel’s second-quarter revenue rose 25% to $16.1 billion, its best growth in 15 years. Third-quarter revenue was guided to $15.8 billion to $16.8 billion and operating cash flow was $7 billion.

Intel’s biggest weakness may have become an advantage

But there’s a hitch.

Higher prices don’t automatically translate into higher profits when Intel itself is facing higher input costs.

The memory is the worst. RBC’s supply-chain investigations show high-bandwidth memory prices might surge by 80% to 100% next year, while wider DRAM shortages are pushing component costs higher throughout the industry.

Intel is likewise in the midst of a costly production turnaround, and its 183% stock rise provides far less space for performance missteps.

But the second-order alteration is not difficult to overlook.

The challenge for Intel in the past was that rivals were stealing share and the company was struggling to get premium pricing.

Now customers are paying more.

Client processor ASPs were up 27%. Server costs surged 48 percent. Server volumes went up despite those higher charges. Intel says demand has outstripped available supplies.

That’s why Wall Street reacted so violently to what seems on the surface like a modest 10% price hike.

The key figure is not ten percent.

It’s 48%.

Intel’s AI turnaround may be providing the corporation with something perhaps more important than market share: the ability to tell consumers its chips cost more, yet still have more demand than it can supply.

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Dating back to 1583 when hawkers and roaming entertainers started coming down to a natural spring that was discovered in a forest north of Copenhagen, the Dyrehavsbakken in Denmark is today recognized as the oldest operating amusement park in the world.

The 33 rides that families come to experience in 2026 include traditional wooden roller coasters, spinning teacups and bumper cars.

The vast majority of theme and amusement parks, however, will not stay in business even a fraction of the same stretch of time as Dyrehavsbakken given that aging ride infrastructure is expensive and often unprofitable to maintain.

Clementon Lake Park and Splash World makes “difficult decision to close” on September 9

On September 9, the 119-year-old Clementon Lake Park and Splash World announced that it has “made the difficult decision to close the park and plan to offer the park for sale” after the summer season.

The theme park was built by New Jersey assemblyman and Civil War veteran Theodore B. Gibbs and his sons in 1907 as a way to drive tourist dollars from Atlantic City to the nearby Philadelphia suburb in the southern part of the state.

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The theme park went through multiple chapters in nearly 12 decades, including a period of expansion to build what were then state-of-the-art rides in the 1920s, a fire that nearly destroyed the entire site in 1931 and a period of decline in which the area was used for dance performances and boxing matches between the 1940s and 1960s.

The Splash World water park section was added to the park in July 1993 following a $5 million renovation.

Clementon Park And Splash World opened in southern New Jersey in 1907.Clementon Park And Splash World

“We are hopeful that we will find a buyer”: Clementon Park and Splash World

The park also changed owners’ hands multiple times. In 1977, the Gibbs family sold the theme park to Miami nightclub operator Abram Baker who ran it with his family until it was purchased by Adrenaline Family Entertainment in 2007. In 2019, the park was closed down to the public for two years after the company defaulted on a $4.5 billion loan from TD Bank before being purchased by current owners IB Parks & Entertainment.

The latter company did not expand on the reasons for the abrupt shutdown but expressed optimism that a buyer will come along and resurrect the park that, while seeing declining visitor numbers over the years, plays an important role in local history and the childhood memories of local residents.

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“After five memorable years, we are saddened to announce that we have made the difficult decision to close the park and plan to offer the park for sale,” Clementon Park management wrote in a Facebook post. “It has been a privilege to care for a place that has meant so much to generations of families. We are hopeful that we will find a buyer who shares our love for Clementon Park and will carry its history and legacy forward.”

IB Parks & Entertainment added that it will be posting “additional details regarding the sale […] as they become available.” With no sale currently looming, the shutdown is being treated as permanent given no 2027 opening date.

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