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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda secured $1B in private debt to acquire Nvidia AI chips for leasing to Microsoft, reflecting capital-intensive infrastructure scaling amid the AI boom.
Aug 29, 2026
My Website Traffic Dropped 40 Percent. My Leads Went Up. The Lesson Changed How I Measure SEO - inc.com
A founder recounts a counterintuitive SEO outcome—traffic fell 40% while leads rose—prompting a shift from vanity metrics to conversion-focused measurement.
Aug 28, 2026
Affirm (AFRM) Q4 Earnings Report: Revenue, GMV, Credit Quality, and Stock Outlook - Barron's
Affirm reported its Q4 financial results, including revenue, gross merchandise volume (GMV), and credit quality metrics, with implications for investor sentiment and stock performance.
Aug 28, 2026
Affirm and Shopify launch installments payments in Australia
Affirm and Shopify have launched installment-based payments via Shop Pay in Australia, extending their global partnership to a new market with a 'no hidden fees' value proposition.
Aug 28, 2026
IREN Just Locked In $4 Billion in ARR — Wall Street Still Sees Only Losses - Yahoo Finance
IREN reported $4 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR), yet remains unprofitable according to Wall Street analysts, highlighting a disconnect between revenue scale and financial sustainability.
Aug 28, 2026
Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Apple increased the US monthly subscription price for Apple TV+ to $14.99 and the individual Apple One bundle to $21.95—its fourth consecutive annual price hike—reflecting broader platform monetization pressure amid slowing subscriber growth.
Aug 28, 2026
Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs (Paresh Dave/Wired)
Meta is piloting industrial robots from ABB and other vendors in its data centers to automate routine hardware maintenance tasks—including cable swapping and server resets—in an effort to reduce reliance on human technicians and lower operational labor costs.
Aug 28, 2026
Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom - WSJ
Nvidia asserts continued financial capacity to fund AI infrastructure expansion amid surging demand and investor scrutiny over sustainability of its growth and margins.
Aug 28, 2026
Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again
Apple increased the monthly subscription price for Apple TV+ by $2.00, from $12.99 to $14.99, reflecting a 15.4% price hike with no accompanying feature expansion or content bundle change disclosed in the article.
Aug 28, 2026
OpenAI rolls out ads on select ChatGPT plans in India to boost monetization, support wider access - CNBC
OpenAI has introduced advertising on certain ChatGPT subscription tiers in India as a monetization strategy intended to fund broader product accessibility.
Aug 28, 2026
HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC - The Register
HP positions locally run AI on premium PCs as a cost-saving alternative to cloud-based LLM API tokens, reframing hardware expense as long-term token-cost avoidance.
Aug 28, 2026
Workday reports Q2 revenue up 12.8% YoY to $2.65B vs. $2.63B est., and total subscription revenue backlog up 8% YoY to $27.4B, vs. $28.6B est. (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Workday reported Q2 revenue of $2.65B (12.8% YoY growth, beating $2.63B estimate) but disclosed subscription revenue backlog of $27.4B — 4.2% below the $28.6B analyst estimate — signaling weaker forward sales visibility.
Aug 28, 2026
BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
BitGo acquired NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, including approximately 30 employees, to expand its derivatives offerings in the crypto infrastructure market.
Aug 28, 2026
RQD* Clearing raises $74 million
Bain Capital led a $74 million minority growth investment in RQD* Clearing, a technology-driven clearing and custody firm, signaling investor confidence in its infrastructure modernization strategy.
Aug 28, 2026
TD posts biggest beat of Big Six as wholesale banking profit soars - Yahoo! Finance Canada
TD Bank reported stronger-than-expected financial results, with outsized growth in wholesale banking profits, outperforming the other five major Canadian banks.
Aug 28, 2026
HP Inc (HPQ) (Q3 2026) Earnings Call Highlights: Record Revenue and Raised Guidance Amid Cost ... - Yahoo Finance
HP Inc reported record revenue and raised full-year guidance during its Q3 2026 earnings call, citing cost optimization initiatives as a key driver.
Aug 28, 2026
Affirm (AFRM) Is Up 6.0% After First GAAP Profit And Card Growth Milestone - What's Changed - simplywall.st
Affirm reported its first-ever GAAP profit and a card growth milestone, triggering a 6.0% stock price increase; this matters because it signals potential inflection in unit economics and scalability for its BNPL-to-credit-card transition.
Aug 27, 2026
Data Centers Use Little Water, So Where Does It All Go?
The article asserts that data centers use little water and implies their water consumption is negligible compared to agriculture in arid regions, framing water scarcity as primarily an irrigation issue — not a tech-infrastructure concern.
Aug 27, 2026
Nasdaq Verafin partners Q6 Cyber for dark web fraud intelligence
Nasdaq Verafin partnered with Q6 Cyber to integrate dark web fraud intelligence with consortium-based financial crime data, aiming to improve proactive fraud detection for banks and credit unions.
Aug 27, 2026
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Google DeepMind announced Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a new multimodal AI model variant optimized for speed and cost-efficiency in real-time applications, positioning it as a developer-facing tool with enhanced control over latency, throughput, and input/output behavior.
Aug 27, 2026
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India - TechCrunch
OpenAI announced it will begin displaying advertisements to users of ChatGPT’s free and Go subscription tiers in India, marking its first regional rollout of ad-supported access to the platform.
Aug 27, 2026
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE pairs last year’s hardware with last month’s software
Samsung released the Galaxy S26 FE, a mid-tier smartphone with nearly identical hardware to last year’s model and software features already deployed on newer flagships — signaling iterative reuse rather than innovation.
Aug 27, 2026
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI is introducing advertising on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India, targeting its base of over 100 million weekly active users there.
Aug 27, 2026
UBS Expands Push to Leverage Client Cash in Middle East Banks - Bloomberg
UBS is expanding its efforts to deploy client cash holdings from Middle Eastern banks into higher-yielding instruments, reflecting a strategic shift in liquidity management amid rising regional interest rates.
Aug 27, 2026
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