The hybrid model: why the smartest finance teams aren’t going all-in on AI
The hybrid model: why the smartest finance teams aren’t going all-in on AI

Every finance vendor with a pulse has slapped “AI-powered” on their homepage in the last 18 months. Most of them are exaggerating, not maliciously, but loosely. They’re calling forecasting “modeling,” trend extension “intelligence,” and pattern matchin…

The long view of property valuation: e2Value on why historical context matters in a new era of AI
The long view of property valuation: e2Value on why historical context matters in a new era of AI

For many participants across insurance and property ecosystems, current valuation challenges did not emerge from a single moment or event. Multiple economic cycles, demographic shifts, evolving construction practices, and changing consumer expectations…

SoftBank hits a fresh record as Tokyo bets the OpenAI IPO is finally coming
SoftBank hits a fresh record as Tokyo bets the OpenAI IPO is finally coming

The Nikkei broke 65,000 for the first time on Monday, and SoftBank, the listed proxy for both OpenAI and Arm, did much of the lifting. SoftBank Group shares hit a record high in Tokyo on Monday, carrying the Nikkei 225 above 65,000 for the first time a…

Lenovo Q4 revenue tops estimates on strong PC sales, shares jump 15%
Lenovo Q4 revenue tops estimates on strong PC sales, shares jump 15%

$21.6bn quarter, AI revenue nearly doubles, full year crowned the best in the company’s history. Lenovo posted Q4 revenue of $21.6bn, up 27% year-on-year and roughly $2.2bn ahead of consensus, sending shares up about 15% on Friday in Hong Kong. Net pro…

SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals
SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals

Elon Musk’s strategy of folding his companies into one conglomerate is already paying off. Regulatory documents filed ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO reveal that the company secured a $20 billion bridge loan from a group of major banks. That loan was us…

SpaceX files S-1, opening the path to what would be the largest IPO in history
SpaceX files S-1, opening the path to what would be the largest IPO in history

The prospectus shows $18.7bn of 2025 revenue, a $4.27bn Q1 net loss, an accumulated deficit of $41.3bn, and a balance sheet that includes 18,712 bitcoin worth $1.29bn at quarter-end. SpaceX will list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. SpaceX has filed it…

NVIDIA beats again, guides to $91bn for Q2 and authorises another $80bn of buybacks
NVIDIA beats again, guides to $91bn for Q2 and authorises another $80bn of buybacks

Q1 revenue $81.6bn (+85% YoY), data centre $75.2bn, net income $58.3bn. The quarterly dividend moves from a penny to 25 cents per share. The buyback is the second $80bn authorisation in three quarters. Nvidia reported first-quarter revenue of $81.6bn o…

OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first
OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first

The AI industry’s most consequential race is no longer about building the best model. It is about getting to public markets first. OpenAI appears to have taken the lead. The company is preparing to confidentially file a draft of its IPO prospectus as s…

US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities
US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities

Weeks after Anthropic’s Mythos AI model sent shockwaves through the financial system, America’s top banking regulators are stepping back from the exam room to give the country’s largest lenders time to shore up their defences. The Federal Reserve and t…

ICE plans compute futures contracts as Wall Street races to turn GPU power into a tradable commodity
ICE plans compute futures contracts as Wall Street races to turn GPU power into a tradable commodity

  Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is preparing to launch futures contracts tied to the cost of computing power, marking the latest sign that Wall Street sees AI infrastructure as the next great commodity ma…