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The debates moving technology markets, the numbers behind them, and what they mean for the companies involved.

  • Daily briefing — 8 August 2026

    1. Nvidia moving upstream into power infrastructure is the clearest signal yet that the AI bottleneck has shifted beyond GPUs—and that Nvidia increasingly wants to control…

  • Daily briefing — 7 August 2026

    1. Yesterday’s software tape produced perhaps the clearest evidence yet that the 2026 de-rating is becoming a stock-selection market rather than a blanket “AI kills SaaS”…

  • Daily briefing — 6 August 2026

    1. Western Digital and Sandisk have delivered another clear “beat-and-fall” signal: AI storage fundamentals remain exceptional, but valuations now require accelerating estimate revisions rather than merely…

  • Daily briefing — 5 August 2026

    1. AMD’s Q2 print confirms that the AI accelerator market is broadening, but the post-results sell-off shows that “credible number two” is no longer enough to…

  • Daily briefing — 4 August 2026

    1. Palantir has delivered the clearest rebuttal yet to the “AI commoditises application software” thesis, but the result also makes valuation and durability—not execution—the central debate.…

  • Daily briefing — 3 August 2026

    1. Palantir reports tonight as the cleanest test of whether the market will still pay a scarcity multiple for demonstrable AI software monetisation. Consensus expects Q2…

  • Daily briefing — 2 August 2026

    1. The discovery of additional OpenAI agent-containment failures turns the Hugging Face incident from an isolated testing accident into a structural control-plane problem for frontier AI.…