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Investment bank credited with estimates of Nvidia's China AI accelerator share falling from 66% in 2024 to 8% in 2026.
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BMW will use AI to cut about 20% of its management roles by mid-2027, on top of roughly 8,000 buyout exits agreed in July. The cut starts in a top layer of about 465 managers, so the margin recovery promised for 2028 leans mainly on cheaper parts in China and pricier cars.
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SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 will try to reach orbit for the first time carrying 26 Starlink V3 satellites that together add about 26 Tbps of capacity. For a company valued near $2 trillion, it tests how much one launch can lift, while the cost of each launch still depends on reuse.
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New York sued Polymarket U.S. on Thursday for triple its gains plus $100,000 per sports-wager offer, following actions against Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini. The state's gambling test fits the event contract itself, so one ruling could reset what investors pay for every operator New York has pursued.
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Washington swapped a ban for case-by-case licenses. Bernstein expects Nvidia's China AI chip share to fall to about 8% in 2026, and buyers say domestic parts will take 46% of accelerator budgets.
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Wednesday's print is the first real test of Nvidia's hyperscaler-versus-everyone-else disclosure. On consensus numbers, the mix barely moves.
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Samsung's 2028 High-NA start and TSMC's 2030 both land well before the twelve-inch photomasks that ASML credits with 40 percent more throughput, so the first fleets amortise at the field size the upgrade exists to fix.
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Cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled to $7.4bn and the contracted backlog reached $664bn, while the $28.5bn Oracle put into capacity in three months turned a record $23.1bn of operating cash flow into free cash flow of negative $5.4bn.
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A bill that began as a security-or-commodity question now includes a standby power over stablecoin rewards if community banks start losing deposits. The Treasury secretary decides when it fires.
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NPCI's new merchant discount rate caps at Rs 300 above Rs 75,000, exempts UPI AutoPay and charges fuel and utilities a flat Rs 5. Checkout cost in India now depends on category and funding instrument as much as on ticket size.
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Combined Kalshi and Polymarket volume reached $53 billion in July, an annual pace above Bernstein's forecast for all of 2026, and Senate Banking Democrats say contracts tied to corporate metrics belong to the SEC.
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The SEC's Sept. 17 order lets venues trade tokenized stocks in permissioned AMM pools without registering as exchanges, if the token passes the underlying's dividends and votes to the holder. Robinhood's 200 tokens are Jersey debt paper.
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Bernstein has raised its ten-year prediction-market forecast tenfold, to $10 trillion of annual volume by 2035. Nearly half of that total comes from assuming the contracts capture 0.5% of a $900 trillion financial-asset pool.
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Bernstein now sees $10 trillion of annual prediction-market volume by 2035 against about $410 billion now, with financial contracts at 49% of the mix, and the total traces back to one penetration assumption.
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Rothschild Redburn began coverage of TeraWulf at Neutral with a $15 target in August 2026. The company has 102 megawatts operating against 839 contracted, and its lease revenue runs at about 13% of what the Anthropic contract will eventually pay.
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Three rival lab CEOs backed the pacing argument within two days of the essay. The checkable part of it is access for embedded evaluators, plus an antitrust waiver from Washington that has not been granted.
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Event contracts brought in $156m last quarter on 13.6 billion tickets, which is the arithmetic behind Robinhood buying equity in a contract supplier as well as listing its markets. OG.com's contracts go live on September 8.
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The brokerage takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com at Citadel Securities' $20bn and $5bn marks, and in exchange gets a fourth CFTC-regulated venue to route event contracts through without owning one.
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Huawei now coordinates China's lithography effort, according to the Financial Times, and the flagship tool it is coordinating uses projection optics that Zeiss says it sells only to ASML, which bounds how fast substitution can actually arrive.
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Huawei's own paper puts transistor density up 53.5%, and TrendForce's relay of it does check out, but the number with money attached is Bernstein's call that Nvidia's China share falls from about 40% to 8% next year.
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Bernstein models Meta's ad revenue up 27% while growth in Google's network slipped 1%, which finally gives the capex argument a numerator and a denominator, provided you accept the comparison underneath it.
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