Elon Musk says debt markets have shut out neoclouds and few will survive
Elon Musk says debt markets have shut out neoclouds and few will survive

Shares in CoreWeave, Nebius and Iren fell in early trading on Monday after Elon Musk wrote that most neoclouds will not survive. All three rebounded later in the day, as Arjun Kharpal reported for CNBC. Neoclouds rent out AI computing power, mostly Nvi…

Ciena CEO who survived the telecom bust tells WSJ the AI boom is different
Ciena CEO who survived the telecom bust tells WSJ the AI boom is different

Gary Smith has been Ciena CEO since May 2001, and led the company through the telecom crash that followed the fibre boom. He says today’s AI build-out is a different kind of cycle, the optical networking company’s chief executive told Steven Rosenbush …

Apollo’s Slok says US companies now treat AI spending as a cost, not growth
Apollo’s Slok says US companies now treat AI spending as a cost, not growth

Artificial intelligence has delivered “zero financial payoff” to corporate America outside the tech sector. That is the finding of Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, in a note on Saturday. Slok compared the Magnificent Seven, th…

Web Summit survey: 59% in tech say AI has increased their workload
Web Summit survey: 59% in tech say AI has increased their workload

Almost six in 10 people working in tech say AI has added to their workload rather than cutting it. That is the headline finding of Web Summit’s first State of the Industry report, published on Thursday. Some 59% said their workload had increased, 20% s…

Supermicro expects up to $19.5bn in quarterly revenue, $4bn above guidance
Supermicro expects up to $19.5bn in quarterly revenue, $4bn above guidance

Supermicro expects to report revenue of $18.5bn to $19.5bn for the three months to September, against the $14.5bn to $15.5bn it had guided. The AI server maker put the gap down to “increased demand for AI platforms”. The company published the prelimina…

Korean AI data centre firm Elice sinks 32% in a record-worst IPO debut
Korean AI data centre firm Elice sinks 32% in a record-worst IPO debut

Shares in Elice, a South Korean AI data centre company, fell 32% on their first day of trading in Seoul on Tuesday. It was the worst debut on record for a Korean IPO of $100m or more, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, as Yoolim Lee and Youkyung …

Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk
Gartner warns $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending is at write-down risk

“All of them want to be the full-stack. They can’t all be,” Gartner analyst Will Sommer told Bloomberg. More than $3.5tn of AI infrastructure spending faces possible impairment by the end of 2030, Gartner said on 14 October. That would happen if AI pro…

Two-thirds of small firms using AI now build their own tools, Pax8 finds
Two-thirds of small firms using AI now build their own tools, Pax8 finds

Small and mid-sized businesses have moved from buying AI tools to building their own. In every market surveyed, most do it without a formal, documented review, Pax8 found in a survey published on Monday. Pax8 is a Denver-based marketplace. It sells AI …

Oratomic reportedly hits $5.4bn as Gartner sees quantum revenue top $1bn
Oratomic reportedly hits $5.4bn as Gartner sees quantum revenue top $1bn

Quantum computing startup Oratomic has raised $475 million at a $5.4bn valuation, Isabelle Bousquette reported for The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The round came three months after its Series A and lifted its valuation from $1.5bn. The same day, B…

81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says
81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says

Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels. The Harris …