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TechCrunch's report on Nscale securing $3.36 billion in convertible financing ahead of a US IPO is a reminder that AI infrastructure is still being financed at a scale closer to energy and telecom than ordinary software.

InfrastructureSep 14, 2026

AI infrastructure lenders are becoming part of the compute race

The AI infrastructure boom is pulling lenders into a market that used to look more like specialized data-center finance. Financial Times reporting on infrastructure-backed AI companies shows that credit markets are now helping decide how quickly compute capacity can expand.

ModelsSep 9, 2026

IBM's Granite time-series release points AI back toward enterprise forecasting

IBM's Granite time-series release is a useful counterweight to the obsession with chat models. Forecasting models are less glamorous, but they sit close to supply chains, finance, operations, energy planning, and every business process that depends on time-based signals.

AI in PracticeSep 6, 2026

AI proficiency is becoming an entry-level finance requirement

AI adoption is starting to show up in job expectations, not just strategy decks. Financial Times reporting on finance roles suggests that basic AI fluency is becoming part of what entry-level candidates are expected to bring into the workplace.

InfrastructureSep 1, 2026

Anthropic’s reported Lambda deal keeps NVIDIA at the center of AI cloud economics

Anthropic’s reported multibillion-dollar cloud deal with Lambda is another reminder that frontier AI is being financed through compute commitments as much as product revenue. The model race increasingly depends on who can reserve enough GPU capacity for training, inference, and customer demand.