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Senior equity research analyst at D.A. Davidson covering technology companies, including semiconductors and AI-related firms.
Nasdaq Composite fell 2.14% on Friday and about 4.5% on the week, its worst since June, as investors doubted AI-linked debt, CNN reported. CoreWeave, a GPU renter with tens of billions in debt, saw bond yields rise to distress levels.
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Oura postponed its $2.2bn Nasdaq IPO on pricing day after its shares reportedly looked set to sell at the bottom of their $40-to-$44 range. Even $40 a share would have valued the profitable ring maker near $14.2bn, above its 2025 private round, so the dispute is over how far above.
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OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate is nearing $70 billion, up more than 70% since the quarter began, Axios reported. That is only about $5 billion above Anthropic's July rate, and Anthropic's figure has kept rising, so ranking the two labs has to wait for their prospectuses.
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Meta has hired MongoDB chief executive CJ Desai, less than a year into his tenure, to run a new enterprise AI division reporting to Mark Zuckerberg. MongoDB must now replace him as Meta tries to sell AI to the businesses that already buy its ads.
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A warrant for 58.97 million shares vests one $500 million tranche of custom-chip revenue at a time, turning a supply agreement into an equity schedule that runs to 2033.
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A federal judge refused to order Google to sell its ad exchange, which takes a forced sale off the table for the ad stack, and the small bounce that followed says the argument over Alphabet has moved to the token price sheet.
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Dario Amodei's call for the industry to pace itself sent software past chips by 10.67 percentage points, the widest one-day gap Dow Jones Market Data has recorded, and the analysts making the bull case date the money to 2027.
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Dario Amodei's call to slow AI development sold off the chipmakers on Monday and hit an OpenAI shareholder harder still, while analysts said the models already serving customers will keep serving them.
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Business Insider, citing eight current and former employees, reports that Google's cofounder holds no executive title while making technical calls on Gemini from a desk the new DeepMind SVP shares. Google declined to comment.
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Jensen Huang says OpenAI's Astra reached AGI, and the tape answered by putting 15% into CoreWeave and taking 2% out of Nvidia, which says rather more about a $108 billion revenue guide than about machine cognition.
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The outlook investors rewarded arrived alongside receivables up about 63% to $63.1bn in six months, with five customers holding 70% of that balance and two banks modelling the line $24bn apart by January 2029.
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Cook's restraint on AI spending reads as discipline in the returns and as arrears in the capex tables. Ternus has to pick a reading, and shareholders fund whichever one he picks.
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Micron, Sandisk, Seagate and Western Digital ran 500% to 900% and more since the start of 2025. The recent reversal is the first real market test of the thesis behind it.
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