Snowflake Q2 FY27: Revenue +35%, RPO $9B, Guide Raised
Snowflake beat Q2 FY27 with $1.49B product revenue up 37%, $9B RPO, 126% NRR. CEO Ramaswamy cites AI flywheel as full-year guide is lifted to $6.07B.
Artificial Intelligence
Uber Cuts 3,300 Jobs to Fund Autonomous Vehicle Push
Uber is cutting roughly 10% of its global workforce and tightening return-to-office rules to redirect $580M in savings toward its self-driving bet.
GitLab Q2 FY27: Revenue $286M, +21%, Guide Raised
GitLab beat Q2 FY27 with $286.3M revenue up 21%, DBNR of 117%, and raised full-year guidance. GTLB traded up 22% pre-market on the print.
Dell Q2 FY27: $47B Revenue, $95B AI Backlog, Guide Raised
Dell posted record $47.0B revenue (+58%), $16.4B AI server revenue and $95B backlog, then raised FY27 to $192B. What the print actually shows.
Texas Halts Data-Center Power on 474 GW ‘Ghost Demand’
Texas paused new data-center hookups after interconnection requests hit 474 GW — nearly 10x the state’s 2023 total — forcing a reckoning with ‘ghost demand.’
Blue Owl Leads $2.4B AI Factory Financing for IREN
Blue Owl-managed funds are anchoring a $2.4B loan for IREN’s AI compute buildout — the latest private-credit push into GPU-backed data-center debt.
Elastic Q1 FY27: cRPO +21%, EPS $0.70, Stock +19%
Elastic Q1 FY27: revenue $478M (+15%), cRPO $1.153B (+21%), non-GAAP EPS $0.70, record 80 net new $100K+ customers. ESTC +19.3% to $99.91.
AI Bond Deluge: IG Issuance Sets $145.2B August Record
August 2026 investment-grade bond sales hit $145.2B, a third straight monthly record, as Alphabet, Amazon, Oracle and Meta borrow to fund AI infrastructure.
Okta Q2: cRPO +14%, FY27 Guide Raised, Stock +29%
Okta Q2 FY27: revenue $805M (+11%), cRPO $2.585B (+14%), FCF $227M (+40%). FY27 guide lifted to $3.216-3.226B. OKTA +28.6% to $172.91.
Anthropic’s $2T IPO Math: $65B Run-Rate, $30T Pitch
Anthropic is reportedly telling investors its market opportunity is the size of the US economy. Here’s what the $2T IPO math looks like.