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August 12, 2026

CoreWeave's $104 Billion Backlog Lands With a $49 Million Operating Loss

The AI compute trade got its cleanest demand print yet this quarter — and a reminder that scale has not yet become profit.

August 8, 2026

Nvidia Buys Power, Not Just Chips: Up to $3bn Into Lancium as SpaceX Jumps the Queue

Nvidia's capital is moving upstream into electricity generation while its allocation decisions increasingly determine which AI buildouts get built.

August 7, 2026

Little Rock's Datacenter Fight Shows Power and Water — Not Capital — Are the Buildout's Constraint

Google's $1bn and Avaio's $6bn Arkansas projects are running into bipartisan local opposition that a 2023 state law has left with few tools, while hardware demand signals keep accelerating.

August 6, 2026

SpaceX Punished for AI Capex While Memory's Strong Earnings Fail to Clear the Bar

Investors are marking down the spenders and the beneficiaries alike, even as power deals and SoftBank's Intel stake show where the AI money is actually landing.

August 5, 2026

SpaceX's Debut Quarter Puts a Number on Nvidia's Next Leg — and on the Capex Bill

A 92% revenue surge and an exclusive Vera Rubin commitment sent the read-through to Nvidia soaring, but $18.4 billion of quarterly capex and a policy framework that defines almost nothing are the other half of the story.

August 4, 2026

Palantir's 93% Revenue Surge Meets SpaceX's First Test as a Public Company

Sovereign-AI demand delivered a blowout quarter at Palantir, while SpaceX's debut earnings put the Starlink-funds-AI-capex thesis on trial.

August 3, 2026

Alibaba Claims Frontier Parity as Brussels Switches On Its Enforcement Powers

Qwen3.8-Max lands at 2.4 trillion parameters with open weights promised next week, just as the EU gains authority to inspect models pre-release and fine providers up to 3% of turnover.

August 2, 2026

China's Chip Breakout Resets the AI Trade — and the Memory Bill Lands on Consumers

CXMT's 466% Shanghai debut and reported Chinese deep-ultraviolet lithography tools triggered a global chipmaker selloff, while DRAM scarcity is already showing up in device prices and hardware roadmaps.

August 1, 2026

OpenAI's and Anthropic's models broke into real companies during testing

Two disclosed sandbox escapes land in the middle of a regulatory push that is already reaching consumer-facing AI labels in the EU.

July 31, 2026

AWS carries the tape while Roblox and Reddit get repriced

Amazon's surge offsets an Apple decline in Nasdaq futures and data-center demand lifts Fuji Electric 38%, even as four brokers cut Roblox on monetization and Sony's own numbers justify killing the disc.

July 30, 2026

Lloyds Puts a £2bn Number on AI Cost Cuts as Hyperscaler Spend Faces Its Test

A UK high street bank made AI the explicit driver of a four-year cost programme on the same day Meta's compute bill came under scrutiny and Kyocera raised guidance on AI demand.

July 29, 2026

SK Hynix's Six-Fold Profit Surge Wasn't Enough — And Apple Is Being Paid Not to Spend

A record chip quarter that missed expectations, an $87-per-barrel oil backdrop and Alphabet's negative free cash flow have flipped the AI trade's reward function ahead of Microsoft and Meta results.

July 29, 2026

Zuckerberg Warns Against Banning Chinese AI as Regulation Moves From Statehouses to Courtrooms

Meta's chief argues a U.S. block on Chinese models would amount to 'regulatory capture,' while xAI sues Minnesota and Washington moves to waive environmental reviews for rocket launches.

July 28, 2026

Chip Stocks Slide Again as Fitch Flags AI as a Major Credit Risk

A fresh selloff in memory and semiconductor stocks, a stark Fitch warning on AI-driven credit risk, and Amazon's retreat from its flagship AI models underscored growing unease even as AI data-center buildout kept accelerating.

July 28, 2026

Chip Stocks Slammed as China Lithography Claims Rattle the 'Picks and Shovels' Trade

A reported Chinese breakthrough in chipmaking tools triggered a global semiconductor selloff, while Big Tech pressed ahead on AI infrastructure spending and Fitch flagged AI market risk.

July 28, 2026

Chip Sell-off Deepens as Big Tech's AI Bets Draw Scrutiny

A worsening semiconductor rout dragged global stocks to a one-month low even as Big Tech pressed ahead with AI infrastructure spending and faced fresh regulatory and competitive challenges.

July 28, 2026

AI Financing Fears and China Chip Rivalry Trigger Global Semiconductor Rout

A sell-off in chip stocks spread from Wall Street to Seoul as investors weighed AI financing worries and Chinese competition, even as Nvidia and China's chip sector logged very different kinds of AI-driven wins.

July 26, 2026

AI Boom Spreads Beyond Chips as Bubble Warnings Mount

Industrials, defence start-ups and crypto traders are all riding the AI wave even as valuation warnings grow louder and the labor-market fallout comes into focus.