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Musk Says Tesla-SpaceX Merger Would Be a 'Good Idea,' Confirms Active Review

Elon Musk said during SpaceX's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that a merger between Tesla and SpaceX is under active consideration, telling analysts "Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes," while cautioning that nothing should be assumed and that shareholder approval would be required.
Musk said special committees have been formed within both companies to study a potential deal, but "have not reached agreement on terms of any transaction and there's no guarantee that they will"; he said he is not part of either committee because he is a "conflicted party" as CEO of both companies, and described even discussing the matter as like "tap dancing through a minefield."
A combination would rank among the largest mergers in history, with Tesla valued at roughly $1.5 trillion and SpaceX at $2 trillion; Musk said at least 50% of Tesla shareholders would need to approve a deal, calling that "quite a high hurdle to achieve."

Published 4d agoSource: BBC ↗

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SpaceX Posts Q3 Revenue Beat as Musk Details Tesla Merger Committees

SpaceX reported third-quarter revenue of $14.6 billion, up 161% year-over-year and above the $12.87 billion analyst consensus, with net income of $4.4 billion; on the earnings call, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that SpaceX and Tesla have each formed independent special committees to evaluate a potential merger, with talks still at an early stage and no agreement guaranteed.
Musk, who is conflicted as CEO of both companies, described the process as an "odd kabuki dance where two groups of people are talking and I can't be in the conversation," and cited potential synergies in superintelligence software, chip design, Terafab, robotics, and orbital transport/connectivity via the Starmind satellite constellation; he reiterated that at least 50% of Tesla's outstanding shares would need to approve a deal, calling it "quite a high hurdle to achieve."
Barclays analyst Dan Levy said SpaceX could emerge as the primary acquirer in an all-stock deal, which would let Musk consolidate voting control over AI-linked businesses such as Optimus and Grok; Deepwater Asset Management's Gene Munster said the odds of a merger "just inched up," estimating a 95% chance of a deal within two years. The developments come after SpaceX acquired xAI in February and completed its IPO in June.

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Netflix Shares Slide 5.9% as Ad-Revenue Forecast Cut Overshadows Earnings Beat

Netflix reported third-quarter EPS of $0.87, beating the $0.82 estimate, on revenue of $12.87 billion that matched expectations; fourth-quarter revenue guidance of $13.4 billion came in below the roughly $13.51 billion analyst consensus, and the company cut its full-year 2026 advertising revenue outlook to about $2.7 billion from about $3 billion, citing a slower-than-expected rollout of ad-product features.
Shares fell 5.9% in after-hours trading to $64.64, near the stock's 52-week low of $65.08 and down about 25% year-to-date; the guidance miss and ad-revenue cut came against a backdrop of internal turmoil, including roughly 1,000 job cuts (about 6% of staff), the replacement of content chief Bela Bajaria with Peter Rice, and the departure of film division head Dan Lin.
The company also faces competitive pressure from YouTube, a weaker content slate than a year earlier, and recent analyst downgrades; in its shareholder letter, Netflix acknowledged "some investor concern about our view hours growth."

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Supermicro Shares Surge 12% After Raising Q1 Revenue Outlook on AI Demand

Super Micro Computer raised its preliminary first-quarter (ended September 30) revenue guidance to $18.5-$19.5 billion, up from a prior $14.5-$15.5 billion range; the midpoint of $19 billion is well above the roughly $14.99 billion analyst consensus.
The company also raised its gross-margin guidance to 12.0%-12.5% from a prior 10.4%-10.8%, citing a more favorable mix of customers and products; Supermicro attributed the upgrade to rising demand for its AI platforms, following a July disclosure that its order backlog exceeded $60 billion.
Shares jumped 12% in after-hours trading Tuesday; the company's earnings conference call is scheduled for November 3 at 5pm ET.

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Anthropic Revenue Hits $16.3 Billion as Preliminary S-1 Outlines IPO Risks, WSJ Reports

Anthropic's revenue for the first half of 2026 (January-June) reached $16.3 billion, up from $1.1 billion in the same period of 2025, according to a preliminary S-1 filing cited by the Wall Street Journal; the company reported a net loss of $80.7 billion for the first half, though $72 billion of that stemmed from non-cash accounting adjustments tied to convertible notes and financial instruments, leaving an underlying loss of roughly $8.7 billion.
The filing disclosed risk factors including heavy capital intensity: about $9 billion spent on computing and infrastructure in the first half of 2026 alone, already exceeding full-year 2025 infrastructure spending of $7.3 billion; the company has locked in roughly $450 billion in non-cancelable cloud-computing commitments over the next decade, including $111 billion with Google Cloud, $110 billion with AWS, and $31 billion with Microsoft, and said it could spend up to $750 billion on computing capacity including deals still being negotiated.
Other disclosed risks include customer concentration-about 20% of first-half revenue came from just two customers-supply shortages prompting Anthropic to pursue third-party data-center development, and risks tied to AI model alignment and catastrophic incidents, including that losses from a severe AI-related security incident could exceed insurance limits; the report said Anthropic could be valued as high as $2 trillion in an IPO, though no specific listing timeline was given.

Published 4d agoSource: Investing.com (citing WSJ) ↗

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Anthropic to Fund New Public-Benefit Vehicle With 5% of Equity

Anthropic said it will contribute 5% of its equity to a newly created public benefit fund, structured as a wholly owned LLC, with an additional 2% of equity to be allocated to the fund each time the company's valuation rises 50% above an undisclosed baseline, at the board's discretion; the fund's dollar size was not disclosed. Planned uses include donations to nonprofits, direct support for specific groups, and addressing AI's impact on the labor market.
The move was compared with other major philanthropic efforts: the OpenAI Foundation holds a 26% stake in OpenAI's for-profit arm (valued at about $130 billion at its October 2025 restructuring) with an initial $25 billion pledge for health and AI-safety causes; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent more than $102.3 billion in its first 25 years, plans to spend an additional $200 billion before dissolving in December 2045, and expects to spend $9 billion in 2026.
Other comparisons cited: Warren Buffett has donated more than half his Berkshire shares (over $47 billion to the Gates Foundation, over $17 billion to four family foundations) and plans to give 99.5% of his remaining wealth to charitable trusts; MacKenzie Scott received about 4% of Amazon (worth about $36 billion) in her 2019 divorce and donated $7.1 billion in 2025; the Ford Foundation holds about $18 billion in assets; the Lilly Endowment has distributed about $21.3 billion over 88 years with $3.85 billion in 2025; and the Novo Nordisk Foundation distributed DKK 11.8 billion (about $1.77 billion) across 2,206 grants in 2025.

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SpaceX Investors Press Musk on Tesla Merger Ahead of Earnings

Ahead of SpaceX's quarterly earnings webcast Tuesday at 4:30pm ET, shareholder-submitted questions showed "When will SpaceX merge with Tesla?" as the second-most-upvoted question with 26 votes on SpaceX's investor site, while the same question drew 128 votes on Tesla's investor relations site; the top SpaceX question (38 votes) concerned progress on Starship's lunar lander hardware, with retail investors focused more on Starship and analysts/institutional investors more on AI revenue and spending.
Barclays said a merger announcement could come before Tesla's annual shareholder meeting, with SpaceX more likely to be the acquirer; Starlink is profitable and supports heavy investment in chips, ground data centers, and Grok, but losses at the AI business have grown significantly, with AI revenue concentrated among a small number of customers including Google and Anthropic, and compute contracts cancelable with about 90 days' notice.
Institutional investors also asked what would happen to Google's contracted computing capacity if a court order halted gas turbines at the Memphis Colossus 2 data center; neither Musk nor SpaceX nor Tesla had officially confirmed or committed to a merger as of the report, and no valuation or deal terms were disclosed.

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OpenAI Acquires Orchestra Bio to Boost Drug-Development AI, Axios Reports

OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup that builds AI agents to help pharmaceutical companies manage drug development, letting scientists hand off tasks such as clinical-trial monitoring, tracking development timelines, and flagging potential delays; financial terms were not disclosed.
OpenAI plans to integrate Orchestra Bio's team and technology into Rosalind, its suite of AI models and tools for life-sciences research, aiming to build agents that connect scientific discoveries to next-step decisions and advance therapeutic development.
OpenAI launched GPT-Rosalind in April for biology, chemistry, and drug-discovery applications and has partnerships with Novo Nordisk and Moderna, aiming to shorten the typical 10-15-year drug-development timeline; rival Anthropic is also expanding in life sciences, making the deal part of broader competition between the two AI companies in the sector.

Published 4d agoSource: Investing.com (citing Axios) ↗

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Google Cloud Resolves UK Outage That Hit Banks, Courts, Businesses

Google Cloud said it has resolved a disruption at its UK cloud site that caused outages affecting UK banks, businesses, and the courts; the company said the issue stemmed from a "power event" at a third-party facility within its europe-west2-b zone, part of its europe-west2 (London) cloud region.
Revolut, Lloyds Bank, and HSBC were among the services that confirmed disruption on Tuesday morning, along with Royal Mail, DPD, and e-bike service Forest; HM Courts and Tribunals Service said it was aware of an issue affecting its remote-hearing video platform, and banking customers reported problems ranging from being unable to access funds abroad to difficulties completing property purchases.
Google apologized to affected customers and said it would publish an incident analysis on its service health dashboard; the outage began early Tuesday, with Google's dashboard initially describing "elevated errors and intermittent network failures" in the europe-west2 region before the company confirmed a full resolution Tuesday evening.

Published 4d agoSource: BBC ↗

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BlackBerry Shares Rise 5.5% as QNX Royalty Backlog Hits Record $1.2 Billion

BlackBerry shares rose about 5.5% to C$12.18 after the company said its QNX embedded-software division's royalty backlog surpassed $1.2 billion, up more than $250 million (about 26%) from roughly $950 million at the end of fiscal 2026, which the company called a record.
BlackBerry announced its first design win for Alloy Kore, the foundational software underlying its QNX automotive operating system, with expected future royalties of more than $100 million-described as the largest single design win in QNX's history; the company also cited new design wins in robotics, industrial automation, and medical devices.
CEO John Giamatteo called the results "compelling evidence of the momentum" the company is building in QNX; the broader market was also positive the same day, with the Dow up 0.9% and the S&P 500 up 0.3%.

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Meta, Tesla Earnings Setup Ahead of Q3 2026 Results

Meta and Tesla both report third-quarter results after market close on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, with stock reactions expected Thursday, October 22; analyst consensus calls for Meta EPS of $6.58 on revenue of $63.34 billion, and Tesla EPS of $0.45 on revenue of $27.92 billion.
For Meta, investors want proof that 2026 capital expenditures of $13-14.5 billion are translating into returns, after free cash flow came in at just $780 million in Q2; Meta reports first among major Big Tech companies, setting the tone for the AI sector, with 90-day EPS estimates cut 7.7% and the stock down 9.4% over the past week; over the last four quarters, average post-earnings stock moves were about 9.8%, with declines in three of the last four reactions.
For Tesla, focus is on Cybercab, Robotaxi, and Optimus updates, plus any mention of SpaceX collaboration (not reflected in financial estimates); the stock's forward P/E of 241.5x leaves little room for disappointment, 90-day EPS estimates have been cut 18.7%, annual cash burn is projected at about $4.29 billion, and the prior quarter's EPS miss of 32.65% sent shares down 15.63%. The setup comes amid broader market volatility, with the Nasdaq posting its worst week since June and the VIX above 22.

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Otter.ai Raises $320 Million in Non-Equity Financing to Expand Enterprise Business

AI meeting-transcription company Otter.ai, which has more than 40 million users and started as a consumer app before enterprise became its fastest-growing segment, secured $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund; CEO Sam Liang said the money is debt that must be repaid with interest-not equity-meaning no shareholder dilution, with repayment tied to when sales and marketing spending generates revenue, and additional funding available after the initial amount is used.
The funds will go toward expanding Otter's enterprise business and international markets, roughly doubling or tripling sales and marketing spending and expanding the sales team; the company's core markets are the US, Canada, UK, and India, and it supports Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Mandarin.
Otter aims to at least double enterprise revenue next year and said Otter users already exist within about 86% of Fortune 500 companies, with converting them into paying enterprise customers a key goal; the company claims customer ROI exceeding $1.5 billion based on user surveys and asset-manager analysis, and plans an eventual IPO after further growing enterprise revenue.

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3M Lifts Annual Profit Forecast as AI-Driven Demand, Amazon Partnership Deepen

3M raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $9.10-$9.15, up from a prior $8.80-$8.95; third-quarter adjusted revenue rose 4.2% to $6.6 billion, with adjusted EPS of $2.50 beating the $2.38 LSEG consensus, helped by price increases.
Growth was driven partly by rising sales to chipmakers and increased sales of semiconductor equipment and materials tied to the AI boom; 3M expanded its data-center partnership with Amazon, which includes a provision allowing an Amazon affiliate to buy up to $521 million of 3M stock over the next seven years.
CEO said revenue from the company's expanded beam optics (EBO) connectors used inside data centers is expected to nearly double, from about $40 million this year to $80-100 million by 2027; shares rose about 5% following the results.

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AI Startup ASI Valued at $3 Billion in Latest Funding Round

Boston-based AI startup ASI, which builds simulation and monitoring software to predict disruptions in complex systems such as air traffic, power grids, and military operations, raised $325 million in a Series C round led by Spark Capital, with participation from a Citadel Securities affiliate, Meritech Capital, and Craft Ventures; founder and CEO Phillip Buckendorf said the company is "deeply focused on AI systems that can manage and control physical assets" rather than text generation.
The round values ASI at $3 billion, which the report attributes to growing investor appetite for AI software used in real-world applications; funds will go toward expanding deployments in energy, logistics, and military applications, and growing ASI's research and engineering staff in Boston.
ASI signed a 5-year, $99 million contract with the US Army in October for military command systems, and a 12-year, $875 million contract with the Federal Aviation Administration in June for air-traffic management.

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Salesforce Deepens AI Bets With $5.66 Billion Braze Acquisition

Salesforce agreed to acquire marketing-software firm Braze for about $5.66 billion, paying Braze Class A shareholders $47.50 per share in cash, a roughly 58.1% premium to Braze's prior closing price; the deal includes a $300 million breakup fee if Salesforce walks away and $191.4 million if Braze does.
Salesforce aims to add Braze's AI-driven personalization tools-which help marketers optimize content, offers, channels, and send times, and respond to customer behavior in real time with tailored messaging-to strengthen its existing business software products amid investor concerns that AI adoption could erode demand for traditional software; the deal follows Salesforce's $3.6 billion acquisition of AI-agent platform Fin this year and its $8 billion purchase of Informatica last year.
The deal is expected to close within Salesforce's fiscal year 2028, subject to required approvals; Salesforce said the transaction does not change its fiscal 2027 outlook. Braze shares jumped more than 50% early in trading, while Salesforce shares fell.

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Klaviyo Shares Jump 10% on Multiyear Partnership With Atlassian Williams F1 Team

Marketing software company Klaviyo announced a multiyear partnership to become the Atlassian Williams F1 Team's official B2C CRM partner starting in 2027, with its brand to appear on the team's FW50 race car, team uniforms, and drivers' race suits; shares rose 10.5% in premarket trading.
The announcement is seen as reversing negative sentiment after Goldman Sachs downgraded Klaviyo on October 16 from buy to neutral with a $20 price target, citing reduced visibility on the timing and scale of new growth drivers such as AI agents; the broader market was weak premarket (S&P 500 futures -0.15%, Nasdaq -0.48%), with the move attributed to company-specific news rather than sector trends.
No financial terms of the partnership were disclosed; Klaviyo reports third-quarter earnings on November 4, 2026. Ahead of the announcement, Stifel maintained a buy rating with a $22 target on October 14, while the broader 22-analyst consensus is "Moderate Buy" with an average 12-month price target of $26.86.

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Waymo to Launch Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Madrid Next Year

Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo plans to launch a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in the Madrid area in 2027, its first operation in Spain; electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will appear on Madrid roads within days, operated by trained specialists until autonomous operations begin, under Spain's transport authority (DGT) autonomous-testing framework.
Waymo currently operates in more than 15 US cities, with more than 500,000 paid rides per week and over 20 million cumulative paid rides; the company says its data from over 400 million autonomous miles shows 95% fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes than human drivers, citing its own analysis.
Waymo also plans to launch in London this year, in Tokyo in 2027 with partners Nihon Kotsu and GO pending regulatory approval, and in Toronto in 2028 with Element Fleet Management; Spain's DGT last month granted the country's first national autonomous-testing permits to WeRide and Uber, with commercial service in Madrid expected to begin later this year from those operators.

Published 4d agoSource: Reuters ↗

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Apple Commits Up to $100 Million for US Titanium in Domestic Manufacturing Push

Apple agreed to a three-year commitment of up to $100 million to buy titanium from Pennsylvania-based Perryman Company, which melts, forges, and rolls the metal at its Houston, Pennsylvania plant with at least 80% recycled content; the titanium will go into multiple products, including Apple's first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
The deal is part of Apple's "American Manufacturing Program," launched last year as part of a four-year, $600 billion US manufacturing commitment; other recent moves under the program include expanded work with Delaware-based Qnity Electronics on variable-aperture camera film for the iPhone 18 Pro, roughly 100 US-made components across multiple states for the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro, over 100 million Apple chips to be produced at TSMC's Arizona plant in 2026, and Corning's Kentucky plant making cover glass for iPhones and Apple Watches sold worldwide.
Apple opened an advanced manufacturing center in Houston, Texas in August, in the same building where it makes AI servers; the facility is set to begin Mac mini production this year.

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Britain Seeks to Break Apple's Grip on Contactless Payments

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) proposed that Apple lower access fees and remove technical barriers so digital banks and other providers can compete with Apple Pay, saying the move would mean "substantially lower access fees" and easier access to Apple's contactless technology; CMA chief executive is Sarah Cardell.
Apple said it already lets developers offer in-app contactless payments via NFC and provides access to the secure element that stores card data and encryption keys, and argued the CMA should not require approaches that lower privacy and security protections; the CMA's proposal is less stringent than a 2024 EU measure that required free access for third-party wallet developers.
The CMA will take comments on its proposal until November 17, 2026, before making a final decision, with no implementation date yet set; contactless payments account for 39% of UK transactions, up from 3% a decade ago, and more than 60% of adults use digital wallets, with Apple Wallet the most widely used.

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SoftBank Shares Slide 6% as Credit Risk Gauges Hit Multi-Year High Amid AI Funding Strain

SoftBank Group shares fell 6.0% to 4,554 yen on Tuesday; the company's five-year credit-default-swap premium rose to 432 basis points, its highest level in about four years, signaling deteriorating perceived credit quality amid what the report called "AI-related funding strain," along with reports of a potential large acquisition whose target and size were not disclosed.
The selloff extended to the broader Japanese tech and chip sector, with credit-rating agencies flagging AI-related debt burdens, China's CXMT raising oversupply concerns with its rapid revenue growth, and South Korea's SK Hynix falling sharply on a possible dual listing of its US subsidiary; Tokyo Electron, Advantest, Disco, Renesas, and Kioxia all declined alongside SoftBank.
The Nikkei 225 fell 911 points (1.4%) to about 64,005 and the Topix dropped 1.5%, with SoftBank's decline alone pulling the Nikkei down roughly 206 points; SoftBank's 52-week high stands at 9,074 yen, and the company is due to report earnings on November 10.

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CoreWeave Debt Selloff Poses Limited Risk to Global Banks, J.P. Morgan Says

CoreWeave's stock and bonds fell last week on investor concerns over its debt financing; yields on its 2031 bonds rose to about 16%, and credit-default-swap costs on its debt climbed to roughly 1,000 basis points, reflecting sharply higher perceived default risk.
J.P. Morgan estimated bank exposure to CoreWeave at $1-3 billion for large US investment banks and Japan's MUFG, and under $500 million for most European and Asian banks, noting its estimates rely on "simplified assumptions" given limited AI-investment disclosure by banks; much of the exposure is in delayed-draw term loans held mainly through special-purpose vehicles, with funds released as projects hit milestones, which J.P. Morgan called "well managed and very well collateralized."
CoreWeave has about $24 billion in delayed-draw term loan commitments, of which $15 billion is drawn and $9 billion undrawn, against roughly $50 billion in total debt; J.P. Morgan sees the core risk as a mismatch between heavy upfront capital spending and revenue arriving over time, projecting negative free cash flow through 2030, but maintains an "overweight" rating with a 2027 year-end price target of $125.

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Sea's CEO Says Fintech Arm Monee Could Go Public, WSJ Reports

Sea Limited CEO Forrest Li told employees in an internal memo, marking the company's ninth anniversary on the New York Stock Exchange, that digital financial-services unit Monee has become Sea's fastest-growing business in recent quarters and is approaching a stage where it could operate independently, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Li said Sea's three main businesses-Monee, e-commerce platform Shopee, and gaming unit Garena-have all reached scale, turned profitable, and continue to grow, and credited the company's public listing with providing capital and credibility that have drawn in more investors.
The memo did not specify a timeline or offering details for a potential Monee IPO; a listing would give the fintech unit easier access to capital to expand its financial-services business, according to the report.

Published 4d agoSource: Investing.com (citing WSJ) ↗

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Vendor-Driven Software Upgrades Eat 28% of IT Budgets, Survey Finds

A survey of more than 2,000 large US and UK companies by software-maintenance firm Origina, reported by Reuters, found that vendor-driven upgrades, migrations and licensing changes consume an average of 28% of software budgets-spending companies did not choose, but which vendors imposed.
95% of respondents said they had paid for vendor-driven upgrades they expected to make things worse, 80% said losing a major software vendor would severely disrupt their business, and 84% said senior engineering staff "always" or "frequently" spend time on vendor-mandated changes; the average annual cost of the most recent vendor-driven change was $12.87 million.
91% said they had scrapped working hardware in the past three years to meet vendor support deadlines, giving up an average of 1.65 years of remaining useful life; Origina CEO Tomas O'Leary said companies often accept the upgrades because "saying yes is often a rational response," with the burden heaviest for firms running older, entrenched technology stacks.

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Elice Shares Plunge 28% on Trading Debut as Investor Doubts Over AI Trade Deepen

Korean AI-infrastructure company Elice made its trading debut after pricing its IPO at the top of the range (₩90,500), raising about ₩201.1 billion (~$150 million) following institutional demand of 388.84x and retail demand of 408.26x, with subscription deposits exceeding ₩10 trillion; shares opened at ₩75,700 (-16.4%), fell as low as ₩61,000 (-32.6%) intraday, and closed around ₩65,300, down about 27.8%.
Investors cited high financing costs, heavy capital expenditure, and uncertain monetization timing for AI infrastructure buildouts as reasons for the selloff, despite Elice reporting H1 2026 revenue of ₩34.4 billion and operating profit of ₩10.3 billion, already surpassing full-year 2025 revenue of ₩39.5 billion and operating profit of ₩5.2 billion.
The debut adds to a string of recent setbacks for AI-infrastructure financing: Australia's Firmus postponed a $5 billion IPO last week, and CoreWeave's stock and bonds have come under pressure, as markets grow more skeptical of the economics behind the AI buildout even as underlying earnings growth continues.

Published 4d agoSource: Investing.com ↗

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Musk Says Tesla-SpaceX Merger Would Be a 'Good Idea,' Confirms Active Review

Elon Musk said during SpaceX's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that a merger between Tesla and SpaceX is under active consideration, telling analysts "Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes," while cautioning that nothing should be assumed and that shareholder approval would be required.
Musk said special committees have been formed within both companies to study a potential deal, but "have not reached agreement on terms of any transaction and there's no guarantee that they will"; he said he is not part of either committee because he is a "conflicted party" as CEO of both companies, and described even discussing the matter as like "tap dancing through a minefield."
A combination would rank among the largest mergers in history, with Tesla valued at roughly $1.5 trillion and SpaceX at $2 trillion; Musk said at least 50% of Tesla shareholders would need to approve a deal, calling that "quite a high hurdle to achieve."

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SpaceX Posts Q3 Revenue Beat as Musk Details Tesla Merger Committees

SpaceX reported third-quarter revenue of $14.6 billion, up 161% year-over-year and above the $12.87 billion analyst consensus, with net income of $4.4 billion; on the earnings call, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that SpaceX and Tesla have each formed independent special committees to evaluate a potential merger, with talks still at an early stage and no agreement guaranteed.
Musk, who is conflicted as CEO of both companies, described the process as an "odd kabuki dance where two groups of people are talking and I can't be in the conversation," and cited potential synergies in superintelligence software, chip design, Terafab, robotics, and orbital transport/connectivity via the Starmind satellite constellation; he reiterated that at least 50% of Tesla's outstanding shares would need to approve a deal, calling it "quite a high hurdle to achieve."
Barclays analyst Dan Levy said SpaceX could emerge as the primary acquirer in an all-stock deal, which would let Musk consolidate voting control over AI-linked businesses such as Optimus and Grok; Deepwater Asset Management's Gene Munster said the odds of a merger "just inched up," estimating a 95% chance of a deal within two years. The developments come after SpaceX acquired xAI in February and completed its IPO in June.

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Netflix Shares Slide 5.9% as Ad-Revenue Forecast Cut Overshadows Earnings Beat

Netflix reported third-quarter EPS of $0.87, beating the $0.82 estimate, on revenue of $12.87 billion that matched expectations; fourth-quarter revenue guidance of $13.4 billion came in below the roughly $13.51 billion analyst consensus, and the company cut its full-year 2026 advertising revenue outlook to about $2.7 billion from about $3 billion, citing a slower-than-expected rollout of ad-product features.
Shares fell 5.9% in after-hours trading to $64.64, near the stock's 52-week low of $65.08 and down about 25% year-to-date; the guidance miss and ad-revenue cut came against a backdrop of internal turmoil, including roughly 1,000 job cuts (about 6% of staff), the replacement of content chief Bela Bajaria with Peter Rice, and the departure of film division head Dan Lin.
The company also faces competitive pressure from YouTube, a weaker content slate than a year earlier, and recent analyst downgrades; in its shareholder letter, Netflix acknowledged "some investor concern about our view hours growth."

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Supermicro Shares Surge 12% After Raising Q1 Revenue Outlook on AI Demand

Super Micro Computer raised its preliminary first-quarter (ended September 30) revenue guidance to $18.5-$19.5 billion, up from a prior $14.5-$15.5 billion range; the midpoint of $19 billion is well above the roughly $14.99 billion analyst consensus.
The company also raised its gross-margin guidance to 12.0%-12.5% from a prior 10.4%-10.8%, citing a more favorable mix of customers and products; Supermicro attributed the upgrade to rising demand for its AI platforms, following a July disclosure that its order backlog exceeded $60 billion.
Shares jumped 12% in after-hours trading Tuesday; the company's earnings conference call is scheduled for November 3 at 5pm ET.

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Anthropic Revenue Hits $16.3 Billion as Preliminary S-1 Outlines IPO Risks, WSJ Reports

Anthropic's revenue for the first half of 2026 (January-June) reached $16.3 billion, up from $1.1 billion in the same period of 2025, according to a preliminary S-1 filing cited by the Wall Street Journal; the company reported a net loss of $80.7 billion for the first half, though $72 billion of that stemmed from non-cash accounting adjustments tied to convertible notes and financial instruments, leaving an underlying loss of roughly $8.7 billion.
The filing disclosed risk factors including heavy capital intensity: about $9 billion spent on computing and infrastructure in the first half of 2026 alone, already exceeding full-year 2025 infrastructure spending of $7.3 billion; the company has locked in roughly $450 billion in non-cancelable cloud-computing commitments over the next decade, including $111 billion with Google Cloud, $110 billion with AWS, and $31 billion with Microsoft, and said it could spend up to $750 billion on computing capacity including deals still being negotiated.
Other disclosed risks include customer concentration-about 20% of first-half revenue came from just two customers-supply shortages prompting Anthropic to pursue third-party data-center development, and risks tied to AI model alignment and catastrophic incidents, including that losses from a severe AI-related security incident could exceed insurance limits; the report said Anthropic could be valued as high as $2 trillion in an IPO, though no specific listing timeline was given.

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Anthropic to Fund New Public-Benefit Vehicle With 5% of Equity

Anthropic said it will contribute 5% of its equity to a newly created public benefit fund, structured as a wholly owned LLC, with an additional 2% of equity to be allocated to the fund each time the company's valuation rises 50% above an undisclosed baseline, at the board's discretion; the fund's dollar size was not disclosed. Planned uses include donations to nonprofits, direct support for specific groups, and addressing AI's impact on the labor market.
The move was compared with other major philanthropic efforts: the OpenAI Foundation holds a 26% stake in OpenAI's for-profit arm (valued at about $130 billion at its October 2025 restructuring) with an initial $25 billion pledge for health and AI-safety causes; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent more than $102.3 billion in its first 25 years, plans to spend an additional $200 billion before dissolving in December 2045, and expects to spend $9 billion in 2026.
Other comparisons cited: Warren Buffett has donated more than half his Berkshire shares (over $47 billion to the Gates Foundation, over $17 billion to four family foundations) and plans to give 99.5% of his remaining wealth to charitable trusts; MacKenzie Scott received about 4% of Amazon (worth about $36 billion) in her 2019 divorce and donated $7.1 billion in 2025; the Ford Foundation holds about $18 billion in assets; the Lilly Endowment has distributed about $21.3 billion over 88 years with $3.85 billion in 2025; and the Novo Nordisk Foundation distributed DKK 11.8 billion (about $1.77 billion) across 2,206 grants in 2025.

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SpaceX Investors Press Musk on Tesla Merger Ahead of Earnings

Ahead of SpaceX's quarterly earnings webcast Tuesday at 4:30pm ET, shareholder-submitted questions showed "When will SpaceX merge with Tesla?" as the second-most-upvoted question with 26 votes on SpaceX's investor site, while the same question drew 128 votes on Tesla's investor relations site; the top SpaceX question (38 votes) concerned progress on Starship's lunar lander hardware, with retail investors focused more on Starship and analysts/institutional investors more on AI revenue and spending.
Barclays said a merger announcement could come before Tesla's annual shareholder meeting, with SpaceX more likely to be the acquirer; Starlink is profitable and supports heavy investment in chips, ground data centers, and Grok, but losses at the AI business have grown significantly, with AI revenue concentrated among a small number of customers including Google and Anthropic, and compute contracts cancelable with about 90 days' notice.
Institutional investors also asked what would happen to Google's contracted computing capacity if a court order halted gas turbines at the Memphis Colossus 2 data center; neither Musk nor SpaceX nor Tesla had officially confirmed or committed to a merger as of the report, and no valuation or deal terms were disclosed.

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OpenAI Acquires Orchestra Bio to Boost Drug-Development AI, Axios Reports

OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup that builds AI agents to help pharmaceutical companies manage drug development, letting scientists hand off tasks such as clinical-trial monitoring, tracking development timelines, and flagging potential delays; financial terms were not disclosed.
OpenAI plans to integrate Orchestra Bio's team and technology into Rosalind, its suite of AI models and tools for life-sciences research, aiming to build agents that connect scientific discoveries to next-step decisions and advance therapeutic development.
OpenAI launched GPT-Rosalind in April for biology, chemistry, and drug-discovery applications and has partnerships with Novo Nordisk and Moderna, aiming to shorten the typical 10-15-year drug-development timeline; rival Anthropic is also expanding in life sciences, making the deal part of broader competition between the two AI companies in the sector.

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Google Cloud Resolves UK Outage That Hit Banks, Courts, Businesses

Google Cloud said it has resolved a disruption at its UK cloud site that caused outages affecting UK banks, businesses, and the courts; the company said the issue stemmed from a "power event" at a third-party facility within its europe-west2-b zone, part of its europe-west2 (London) cloud region.
Revolut, Lloyds Bank, and HSBC were among the services that confirmed disruption on Tuesday morning, along with Royal Mail, DPD, and e-bike service Forest; HM Courts and Tribunals Service said it was aware of an issue affecting its remote-hearing video platform, and banking customers reported problems ranging from being unable to access funds abroad to difficulties completing property purchases.
Google apologized to affected customers and said it would publish an incident analysis on its service health dashboard; the outage began early Tuesday, with Google's dashboard initially describing "elevated errors and intermittent network failures" in the europe-west2 region before the company confirmed a full resolution Tuesday evening.

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BlackBerry Shares Rise 5.5% as QNX Royalty Backlog Hits Record $1.2 Billion

BlackBerry shares rose about 5.5% to C$12.18 after the company said its QNX embedded-software division's royalty backlog surpassed $1.2 billion, up more than $250 million (about 26%) from roughly $950 million at the end of fiscal 2026, which the company called a record.
BlackBerry announced its first design win for Alloy Kore, the foundational software underlying its QNX automotive operating system, with expected future royalties of more than $100 million-described as the largest single design win in QNX's history; the company also cited new design wins in robotics, industrial automation, and medical devices.
CEO John Giamatteo called the results "compelling evidence of the momentum" the company is building in QNX; the broader market was also positive the same day, with the Dow up 0.9% and the S&P 500 up 0.3%.

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Meta, Tesla Earnings Setup Ahead of Q3 2026 Results

Meta and Tesla both report third-quarter results after market close on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, with stock reactions expected Thursday, October 22; analyst consensus calls for Meta EPS of $6.58 on revenue of $63.34 billion, and Tesla EPS of $0.45 on revenue of $27.92 billion.
For Meta, investors want proof that 2026 capital expenditures of $13-14.5 billion are translating into returns, after free cash flow came in at just $780 million in Q2; Meta reports first among major Big Tech companies, setting the tone for the AI sector, with 90-day EPS estimates cut 7.7% and the stock down 9.4% over the past week; over the last four quarters, average post-earnings stock moves were about 9.8%, with declines in three of the last four reactions.
For Tesla, focus is on Cybercab, Robotaxi, and Optimus updates, plus any mention of SpaceX collaboration (not reflected in financial estimates); the stock's forward P/E of 241.5x leaves little room for disappointment, 90-day EPS estimates have been cut 18.7%, annual cash burn is projected at about $4.29 billion, and the prior quarter's EPS miss of 32.65% sent shares down 15.63%. The setup comes amid broader market volatility, with the Nasdaq posting its worst week since June and the VIX above 22.

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Otter.ai Raises $320 Million in Non-Equity Financing to Expand Enterprise Business

AI meeting-transcription company Otter.ai, which has more than 40 million users and started as a consumer app before enterprise became its fastest-growing segment, secured $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund; CEO Sam Liang said the money is debt that must be repaid with interest-not equity-meaning no shareholder dilution, with repayment tied to when sales and marketing spending generates revenue, and additional funding available after the initial amount is used.
The funds will go toward expanding Otter's enterprise business and international markets, roughly doubling or tripling sales and marketing spending and expanding the sales team; the company's core markets are the US, Canada, UK, and India, and it supports Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Mandarin.
Otter aims to at least double enterprise revenue next year and said Otter users already exist within about 86% of Fortune 500 companies, with converting them into paying enterprise customers a key goal; the company claims customer ROI exceeding $1.5 billion based on user surveys and asset-manager analysis, and plans an eventual IPO after further growing enterprise revenue.

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3M Lifts Annual Profit Forecast as AI-Driven Demand, Amazon Partnership Deepen

3M raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $9.10-$9.15, up from a prior $8.80-$8.95; third-quarter adjusted revenue rose 4.2% to $6.6 billion, with adjusted EPS of $2.50 beating the $2.38 LSEG consensus, helped by price increases.
Growth was driven partly by rising sales to chipmakers and increased sales of semiconductor equipment and materials tied to the AI boom; 3M expanded its data-center partnership with Amazon, which includes a provision allowing an Amazon affiliate to buy up to $521 million of 3M stock over the next seven years.
CEO said revenue from the company's expanded beam optics (EBO) connectors used inside data centers is expected to nearly double, from about $40 million this year to $80-100 million by 2027; shares rose about 5% following the results.

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AI Startup ASI Valued at $3 Billion in Latest Funding Round

Boston-based AI startup ASI, which builds simulation and monitoring software to predict disruptions in complex systems such as air traffic, power grids, and military operations, raised $325 million in a Series C round led by Spark Capital, with participation from a Citadel Securities affiliate, Meritech Capital, and Craft Ventures; founder and CEO Phillip Buckendorf said the company is "deeply focused on AI systems that can manage and control physical assets" rather than text generation.
The round values ASI at $3 billion, which the report attributes to growing investor appetite for AI software used in real-world applications; funds will go toward expanding deployments in energy, logistics, and military applications, and growing ASI's research and engineering staff in Boston.
ASI signed a 5-year, $99 million contract with the US Army in October for military command systems, and a 12-year, $875 million contract with the Federal Aviation Administration in June for air-traffic management.

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Salesforce Deepens AI Bets With $5.66 Billion Braze Acquisition

Salesforce agreed to acquire marketing-software firm Braze for about $5.66 billion, paying Braze Class A shareholders $47.50 per share in cash, a roughly 58.1% premium to Braze's prior closing price; the deal includes a $300 million breakup fee if Salesforce walks away and $191.4 million if Braze does.
Salesforce aims to add Braze's AI-driven personalization tools-which help marketers optimize content, offers, channels, and send times, and respond to customer behavior in real time with tailored messaging-to strengthen its existing business software products amid investor concerns that AI adoption could erode demand for traditional software; the deal follows Salesforce's $3.6 billion acquisition of AI-agent platform Fin this year and its $8 billion purchase of Informatica last year.
The deal is expected to close within Salesforce's fiscal year 2028, subject to required approvals; Salesforce said the transaction does not change its fiscal 2027 outlook. Braze shares jumped more than 50% early in trading, while Salesforce shares fell.

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Klaviyo Shares Jump 10% on Multiyear Partnership With Atlassian Williams F1 Team

Marketing software company Klaviyo announced a multiyear partnership to become the Atlassian Williams F1 Team's official B2C CRM partner starting in 2027, with its brand to appear on the team's FW50 race car, team uniforms, and drivers' race suits; shares rose 10.5% in premarket trading.
The announcement is seen as reversing negative sentiment after Goldman Sachs downgraded Klaviyo on October 16 from buy to neutral with a $20 price target, citing reduced visibility on the timing and scale of new growth drivers such as AI agents; the broader market was weak premarket (S&P 500 futures -0.15%, Nasdaq -0.48%), with the move attributed to company-specific news rather than sector trends.
No financial terms of the partnership were disclosed; Klaviyo reports third-quarter earnings on November 4, 2026. Ahead of the announcement, Stifel maintained a buy rating with a $22 target on October 14, while the broader 22-analyst consensus is "Moderate Buy" with an average 12-month price target of $26.86.

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Waymo to Launch Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Madrid Next Year

Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo plans to launch a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in the Madrid area in 2027, its first operation in Spain; electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will appear on Madrid roads within days, operated by trained specialists until autonomous operations begin, under Spain's transport authority (DGT) autonomous-testing framework.
Waymo currently operates in more than 15 US cities, with more than 500,000 paid rides per week and over 20 million cumulative paid rides; the company says its data from over 400 million autonomous miles shows 95% fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes than human drivers, citing its own analysis.
Waymo also plans to launch in London this year, in Tokyo in 2027 with partners Nihon Kotsu and GO pending regulatory approval, and in Toronto in 2028 with Element Fleet Management; Spain's DGT last month granted the country's first national autonomous-testing permits to WeRide and Uber, with commercial service in Madrid expected to begin later this year from those operators.

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Apple Commits Up to $100 Million for US Titanium in Domestic Manufacturing Push

Apple agreed to a three-year commitment of up to $100 million to buy titanium from Pennsylvania-based Perryman Company, which melts, forges, and rolls the metal at its Houston, Pennsylvania plant with at least 80% recycled content; the titanium will go into multiple products, including Apple's first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
The deal is part of Apple's "American Manufacturing Program," launched last year as part of a four-year, $600 billion US manufacturing commitment; other recent moves under the program include expanded work with Delaware-based Qnity Electronics on variable-aperture camera film for the iPhone 18 Pro, roughly 100 US-made components across multiple states for the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro, over 100 million Apple chips to be produced at TSMC's Arizona plant in 2026, and Corning's Kentucky plant making cover glass for iPhones and Apple Watches sold worldwide.
Apple opened an advanced manufacturing center in Houston, Texas in August, in the same building where it makes AI servers; the facility is set to begin Mac mini production this year.

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Britain Seeks to Break Apple's Grip on Contactless Payments

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) proposed that Apple lower access fees and remove technical barriers so digital banks and other providers can compete with Apple Pay, saying the move would mean "substantially lower access fees" and easier access to Apple's contactless technology; CMA chief executive is Sarah Cardell.
Apple said it already lets developers offer in-app contactless payments via NFC and provides access to the secure element that stores card data and encryption keys, and argued the CMA should not require approaches that lower privacy and security protections; the CMA's proposal is less stringent than a 2024 EU measure that required free access for third-party wallet developers.
The CMA will take comments on its proposal until November 17, 2026, before making a final decision, with no implementation date yet set; contactless payments account for 39% of UK transactions, up from 3% a decade ago, and more than 60% of adults use digital wallets, with Apple Wallet the most widely used.

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SoftBank Shares Slide 6% as Credit Risk Gauges Hit Multi-Year High Amid AI Funding Strain

SoftBank Group shares fell 6.0% to 4,554 yen on Tuesday; the company's five-year credit-default-swap premium rose to 432 basis points, its highest level in about four years, signaling deteriorating perceived credit quality amid what the report called "AI-related funding strain," along with reports of a potential large acquisition whose target and size were not disclosed.
The selloff extended to the broader Japanese tech and chip sector, with credit-rating agencies flagging AI-related debt burdens, China's CXMT raising oversupply concerns with its rapid revenue growth, and South Korea's SK Hynix falling sharply on a possible dual listing of its US subsidiary; Tokyo Electron, Advantest, Disco, Renesas, and Kioxia all declined alongside SoftBank.
The Nikkei 225 fell 911 points (1.4%) to about 64,005 and the Topix dropped 1.5%, with SoftBank's decline alone pulling the Nikkei down roughly 206 points; SoftBank's 52-week high stands at 9,074 yen, and the company is due to report earnings on November 10.

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CoreWeave Debt Selloff Poses Limited Risk to Global Banks, J.P. Morgan Says

CoreWeave's stock and bonds fell last week on investor concerns over its debt financing; yields on its 2031 bonds rose to about 16%, and credit-default-swap costs on its debt climbed to roughly 1,000 basis points, reflecting sharply higher perceived default risk.
J.P. Morgan estimated bank exposure to CoreWeave at $1-3 billion for large US investment banks and Japan's MUFG, and under $500 million for most European and Asian banks, noting its estimates rely on "simplified assumptions" given limited AI-investment disclosure by banks; much of the exposure is in delayed-draw term loans held mainly through special-purpose vehicles, with funds released as projects hit milestones, which J.P. Morgan called "well managed and very well collateralized."
CoreWeave has about $24 billion in delayed-draw term loan commitments, of which $15 billion is drawn and $9 billion undrawn, against roughly $50 billion in total debt; J.P. Morgan sees the core risk as a mismatch between heavy upfront capital spending and revenue arriving over time, projecting negative free cash flow through 2030, but maintains an "overweight" rating with a 2027 year-end price target of $125.

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Sea's CEO Says Fintech Arm Monee Could Go Public, WSJ Reports

Sea Limited CEO Forrest Li told employees in an internal memo, marking the company's ninth anniversary on the New York Stock Exchange, that digital financial-services unit Monee has become Sea's fastest-growing business in recent quarters and is approaching a stage where it could operate independently, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Li said Sea's three main businesses-Monee, e-commerce platform Shopee, and gaming unit Garena-have all reached scale, turned profitable, and continue to grow, and credited the company's public listing with providing capital and credibility that have drawn in more investors.
The memo did not specify a timeline or offering details for a potential Monee IPO; a listing would give the fintech unit easier access to capital to expand its financial-services business, according to the report.

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Vendor-Driven Software Upgrades Eat 28% of IT Budgets, Survey Finds

A survey of more than 2,000 large US and UK companies by software-maintenance firm Origina, reported by Reuters, found that vendor-driven upgrades, migrations and licensing changes consume an average of 28% of software budgets-spending companies did not choose, but which vendors imposed.
95% of respondents said they had paid for vendor-driven upgrades they expected to make things worse, 80% said losing a major software vendor would severely disrupt their business, and 84% said senior engineering staff "always" or "frequently" spend time on vendor-mandated changes; the average annual cost of the most recent vendor-driven change was $12.87 million.
91% said they had scrapped working hardware in the past three years to meet vendor support deadlines, giving up an average of 1.65 years of remaining useful life; Origina CEO Tomas O'Leary said companies often accept the upgrades because "saying yes is often a rational response," with the burden heaviest for firms running older, entrenched technology stacks.

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Elice Shares Plunge 28% on Trading Debut as Investor Doubts Over AI Trade Deepen

Korean AI-infrastructure company Elice made its trading debut after pricing its IPO at the top of the range (₩90,500), raising about ₩201.1 billion (~$150 million) following institutional demand of 388.84x and retail demand of 408.26x, with subscription deposits exceeding ₩10 trillion; shares opened at ₩75,700 (-16.4%), fell as low as ₩61,000 (-32.6%) intraday, and closed around ₩65,300, down about 27.8%.
Investors cited high financing costs, heavy capital expenditure, and uncertain monetization timing for AI infrastructure buildouts as reasons for the selloff, despite Elice reporting H1 2026 revenue of ₩34.4 billion and operating profit of ₩10.3 billion, already surpassing full-year 2025 revenue of ₩39.5 billion and operating profit of ₩5.2 billion.
The debut adds to a string of recent setbacks for AI-infrastructure financing: Australia's Firmus postponed a $5 billion IPO last week, and CoreWeave's stock and bonds have come under pressure, as markets grow more skeptical of the economics behind the AI buildout even as underlying earnings growth continues.

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