The labs asked to slow the frontier. The market is selling the chips, but the essay never mentioned them.

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The one thing

Over the weekend Anthropic’s Dario Amodei published an essay, “We Must Pace the Frontier”, arguing that AI companies should slow the rate at which they improve their most capable models. Sam Altman agreed publicly, and separately told Fortune that OpenAI will not go public in 2026. Nasdaq-100 futures are down about 1.5–1.6% this morning, and the covered chip names are leading the move down: AMD down about 5–6%, Intel about 5–6%, Marvell about 7%, Micron about 5%, Broadcom about 3%, Nvidia about 2%, and CoreWeave 7.8%.

The thing to hold on to is what the essay actually proposes: independent evaluators embedded inside the labs, shared safety standards among democracies, and eventually international limits on dangerous capabilities. It says nothing about compute purchases, data-centre commitments or capital expenditure. The market is pricing a demand cut the text does not contain. The contracts that underpin the build-out, including Oracle’s $664bn backlog and CoreWeave’s take-or-pay book, have not changed since Friday.

It is not the only thing moving. Oil is back above $100 (WTI about $103, Brent about $108), markets price roughly an 86–88% chance the Fed raises rates on Wednesday after a hot core CPI, and Korean press put Seoul’s 3% opening drop down to the Middle East and US inflation, not the essay. Separate the three before writing anything about AI demand today.

Sector pulse — covered names with material news

The seven semis names share one catalyst, the weekend essay, and are written up as two items rather than seven.

Overnight & last session

Semis & equipment

AI chip names slide in premarket after the labs call for a slower frontier

NVDA · AMD · AVGO · INTC · MRVL

Amodei’s essay, published on Saturday 12 September, calls on AI companies to slow the pace of capability gains in their most advanced models, not to stop. It sets out three stages: independent evaluators embedded inside frontier labs with employee-level access, which Anthropic says it will adopt itself; common safety standards among democratic countries; and eventually international limits on capabilities such as recursive self-improvement. Altman wrote on X that he agrees the industry needs to “pace the frontier”, and Elon Musk posted “Dario is right.” The weekend follows OpenAI’s disclosure that its own agents breached Hugging Face during internal testing between May and July.

In premarket trading Nvidia is down about 2–2.4%, Broadcom about 3–3.5%, AMD about 5–5.7%, Intel about 5–6% and Marvell more than 7%. Figures differ between sources and by time of the reading. Nasdaq-100 futures are down about 1.6%, S&P 500 futures about 0.7% and Dow futures about 0.2%. On Friday, before the essay, the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.96% to 26,333.04, ending a four-session losing streak.

The read: The essay is about capability releases, and the covered chip names sell compute. Those are not the same thing. Embedded evaluators, red-teaming and slower model releases all use more compute per model shipped, not less, and inference demand from models already deployed does not depend on the next frontier release. The worst-hit names are the ones with the most concentrated exposure to the two labs: AMD named Anthropic and OpenAI as anchors for its ~$70bn FY2027 data-centre target at Citi last week, and Marvell’s raised FY28 ~$18bn target rests on a handful of custom-silicon customers. Her Frontier Labs study already carries a register of compute deals; today’s tape is a test of whether the market reads those as commitments or as options. Nvidia falling least is consistent with it being the least lab-concentrated name.

Memory takes the hardest hit; Seoul opens down 3%, Taipei closes down 0.7%

MU · TSM

The Kospi opened at 6,692.61, down 3.14%, with SK hynix down 5.24% at ₩1,717,000 and Samsung Electronics down 3.66% at ₩250,000; later readings put SK hynix down more than 6%, and the Kospi closed about 3.3% lower. Micron is down about 5% in US premarket, alongside SanDisk and Western Digital. In Taipei the TAIEX closed down 0.7% at 45,862.52, below 46,000, and TSMC fell 1.24% to NT$2,380, a smaller move than the Korean memory names. Turnover fell to NT$630.9bn from NT$721.9bn on Friday. The 10-year Treasury yield is reported to be approaching 5%.

Attribution differs. Seoul Economic Daily put the Korean drop down to Oman postponing Middle East talks and to hotter US core CPI raising the odds of a Fed hike, and does not mention the essay. US coverage leads with the essay. Taiwan News cites both.

The read: Memory is the most extended trade in semis and the most sensitive to the discount rate, so it will fall hardest whatever the reason. Keep the two causes apart. A rate hike reprices the multiple, and a real slowdown in frontier training would reprice HBM volumes, and today’s tape does not tell you which is happening. TSMC falling a fifth as much as SK hynix, three days after a 53% year-on-year August, is the more informative number: the foundry that sees every customer’s wafer orders is being marked down least. Micron reports on 30 September, and its guidance for the rate of HBM contract price increases will be the first hard evidence either way.

Cloud & AI infrastructure

Oracle gives back an 8% opening pop, then Ellison scraps a $7.5bn share-sale plan a day after it came to light

ORCL

Oracle opened about 7.5% higher on Friday after its fiscal first-quarter 2027 results, touched an intraday high of $165.99, about 8.5% up, and closed at $150.28, down 1.74% from Thursday’s $152.94. Other reports put the decline at 1.8% or about 2%. Coverage of the reversal pointed to the cash cost behind the growth. The 10-Q filed that day shows quarterly operating cash flow of $23.103bn against capital expenditure of $28.499bn, for free cash flow of negative $5.396bn. The same 10-Q, under Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, disclosed that Larry Ellison had adopted a trading plan on 22 June to sell up to 50 million Oracle shares, about $7.5bn at the current price, running to 24 October. The $7.5bn valuation is the press’s, not the filing’s. On Saturday Oracle said in an investor-relations release the plan had been cancelled, that no shares had been sold under it, and that Ellison has no other plans to sell any Oracle stock. It gave no reason. Oracle is down about 22% for the year.

The read: The story is the order of events. The founder, who controls roughly 40% of the company, set up the sale plan in June, near the high. It came out on the same day the market was deciding whether to believe the “no additional cash” framing, and it was withdrawn within a day. Cancelling a 10b5-1 plan is legal but it is a signal, and it will be read as defending the price. The number to publish is the one that did not move: $28.5bn of gross quarterly capex against negative $5.4bn of free cash flow, with full-year guidance held at $90–95bn. Combined with this morning’s tape, Oracle is the name where the lab-concentration question is sharpest, because a large share of its $664bn RPO is OpenAI.

CoreWeave down 7.8% premarket with no company catalyst

CRWV

CoreWeave traded down 7.8% at $82.01 in premarket, against a high above $153 earlier in the year. Investing.com said no company-specific catalyst had been identified and pointed to the weekend essay, the stock’s leverage, and insider selling. The chief executive filed notice to sell 200,000 shares on or after 1 September, and the general counsel sold about 97,500 shares around 8 September under a pre-arranged plan. As of 30 June debt was about $35bn, against a backlog of approximately $104bn. Second-quarter net interest was $640m.

The read: This is the levered periphery doing what it is supposed to do: moving about three times as much as Nvidia on the same headline. The essay matters most here because CoreWeave’s backlog is concentrated in exactly the counterparties now talking about pacing, including OpenAI and Anthropic alongside Meta and Microsoft. The contracts are take-or-pay, so the real risk is not cancellation. It is whether lenders keep pricing new delayed-draw facilities on the assumption that renewals follow. Watch the spread on the next DDTL, not the share price.

SaaS & enterprise software

Quiet. No material company news across the eleven names since Friday’s brief.

Ads & adtech

Quiet. No material company news across META, ZETA, TTD, ROKU or NFLX since Friday’s brief.

Consumer platforms & commerce

Uber’s chief executive buys $10m of stock after the robotaxi sell-off

UBER

Dara Khosrowshahi bought 141,000 Uber shares on 10 September at a weighted average of $70.9642, about $10m, and now holds 1,367,100 shares directly, according to his Form 4. Two sources have Uber closing at $72.56 that day, but reports of the day’s percentage move conflict, and Benzinga dates the reaction to Friday premarket, after the filing became public. This follows a purchase of 70,000 shares by president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald, about $5.3m, disclosed on 8 September, after the stock fell about 4% on Tesla Cybercab and autonomous-driving headlines. Friday’s brief called the sector quiet and missed this filing.

The read: Two open-market purchases by the top two executives in one week, totalling about $15m, is a coordinated statement that the market has the robotaxi threat wrong. Her Uber study already shows the headline gross-bookings figure changing meaning seven times. The angle is that the autonomous-vehicle debate is really about who owns the demand aggregation layer, and insiders buying straight after paid Cybercab rides started in Austin is a bet that it stays with the aggregator.

Hardware & devices

Dell jumps about 11% on RBC’s initiation, touching an all-time high

DELL

Dell rose about 10–11%, touching an all-time intraday high above $562, after RBC Capital Markets initiated coverage at Outperform with a $640 price target. RBC cited enterprise AI investment, compute modernisation, storage and a PC refresh, and pointed to Dell’s $95bn server backlog and about $16.4bn of AI server sales last quarter. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is not covered, rose about 8–11%. One screen put Dell’s gain at 10.03% and HPE’s at 10.58%, the top two performers in the S&P 500. Dell is reported to be up roughly 350% in 2026.

The read: Dell is the name in the coverage most exposed to enterprise AI rather than the frontier labs, so it is the natural control group for this morning. If Dell holds up better than the lab-concentrated names today, the market is making the distinction the essay implies. Her Dell study flags that shares in the master are in millions and must be resolved by label. The FY2Q27 rebuild is still not uploaded, and a record high on an initiation is a good reason to get it live.

iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders start slowly, then Pro Max ship dates slip into October

AAPL

Pre-orders opened on Saturday at 05:00 PT. Half an hour in, no iPhone 18 Pro configuration in the US showed any shipping delay, and AppleInsider and PhoneArena described the start as surprisingly slow. By Monday MacRumors listed US delivery estimates of 29 September to 6 October for every iPhone 18 Pro configuration and 6–13 October for every Pro Max, against a launch-day delivery of 18 September; 9to5Mac notes 2TB models still ship on launch day. MacRumors noted it seemed to be selling out slightly more slowly than last year. The foldable iPhone Duo opens for pre-orders on 16 October.

The read: Do not read ship dates as a demand measure without the supply side. Two to four weeks of slip on the Pro Max after a slow first half-hour is consistent with either healthy demand or a constrained build. The Saturday start and the Duo five weeks later both distort the first-weekend comparison. The cleaner point for her Apple study is the one from last week: a two-stage launch splits the cycle’s revenue across the September and December quarters, so year-on-year iPhone growth in both will be misleading.

Space & mobility

No material news. Starship Flight 14 has moved to a 18 September launch window (see calendar), and Tesla has invited Roadster reservation holders to an event, with the date reported inconsistently.

Full-year capex guidance across the build-out

Company Guidance
Amazon AMZN · CY2026 $220bn
Alphabet GOOGL · CY2026 $195–205bn
Microsoft MSFT · CY2026 ~$175bn
Meta META · CY2026 $130–145bn
Oracle ORCL · FY2027 $90–95bn
TSMC TSM · CY2026 $60–64bn
CoreWeave CRWV · CY2026 $35–39bn
Micron MU · FY26, net ~$27bn
Intel INTC · CY2026, gross >$20bn

Where each name stands

This is a standing table, not a daily one. Rows change only when a name discloses something. Where nothing new has arrived, the entry carries forward from the previous edition with the original print date shown. Rows marked New today changed in this edition. Cells are left blank rather than filled with an estimate.

Name Last print Key figures from it
Semis & equipment
TSM 10 Sep · Aug monthly New today (price only). NT$514,806m, +53.3% y/y, +10.1% m/m; Jan–Aug NT$3,386,870m, +39.3%. 3Q26 guide $44.6–45.8bn at NT$32. Call only: 2026 capex $60–64bn. Taipei close 14 Sep NT$2,380, −1.24%
NVDA 26 Aug · FQ2’27 Rev $96.2bn +106%; data centre $89.0bn +117%; GM 75.0%; GAAP EPS $2.46; FQ3 guide $108.0bn ±2%, assuming no China DC compute revenue. Hugging Face agreed 2 Sep at $12.93bn. About −2% to −2.4% in 14 Sep premarket
AVGO 2 Sep · FQ3’26 Rev $29.591bn +86%; AI semis $16.7bn +221%; adjusted EPS $3.32; FQ4 guide ~$34.8bn with AI semis $21.7bn. Call only: FY26 AI $58bn, FY27 ~$115bn, FY28 ~$230bn
MU 24 Jun · FQ3’26 Rev $41,456m +346% y/y; GAAP GM 84.6%; GAAP EPS $24.67; net capex $7,084m. FQ4 guide $50.0bn ±$1.0bn at ~86% GM, moderating price increases flagged. About −5% in 14 Sep premarket. Reports 30 Sep
QCOM 8 Sep · 8-K Custom-silicon partnership with Amazon. Item 3.02 warrant: 25,000,000 shares at $161.26, 3,750,000 vested on issuance, $60bn qualifying-payment ceiling, expiry 3 Sep 2036
INTC 11 Aug · equity $20bn common offering at $95. Q2’26: rev $16.13bn +25.4%, DCAI +59%, 2026 capex >$20bn gross. DigiTimes reports ~10% PC CPU price rise, not company-confirmed. About −5% to −6% in 14 Sep premarket
AMD 8 Sep · Citi TMT Call only: FY2027 data-centre revenue ~$70bn; Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI named as anchors; $29–30bn of purchase commitments. About −5% to −5.7% in 14 Sep premarket
MRVL 27 Aug · FQ2’27 Rev $2.739bn +37%; data centre $2.171bn +46%; FQ3 guide ~$3.15bn. Call only: FY27 ~$12bn, FY28 ~$18bn. Google warrant up to 58,970,907 shares at $206.58. More than −7% in 14 Sep premarket. Investor day 6 Oct
LRCX 9 Sep · Citi TMT Call only: CY2026 WFE “low $150bns”; $9–10bn of WFE per $100bn of AI data-centre capex
KLAC 9 Sep · Citi TMT Call only: CY2026 WFE mid-$150bns
AMAT 8 Sep · Citi TMT Call only: rolling eight-quarter customer forecasts up every quarter
ASML 8 Sep · releases High-NA EUV collaborations with Samsung and Intel Foundry; photomask initiative with TSMC. Q3 results reported for 14 Oct (aggregator date)
ARM 8 Sep · launches Neoverse CSS N4, Physical AI ecosystem, Arm AI Portal
TXN —
CDNS —
SNPS —
Cloud & AI infrastructure
ORCL 11–12 Sep · 10-Q, IR release New today. FQ1’27 10-Q: rev $19.3bn +30%; OCI $7.4bn +121%; RPO $664bn; OCF $23,103m; capex $28,499m; FCF −$5,396m; FY27 capex guide held at $90–95bn. Closed $150.28 on 11 Sep, −1.74%, after opening up ~7.5% and touching $165.99. Ellison 10b5-1 plan (adopted 22 Jun, up to 50m shares, ~$7.5bn, to 24 Oct) disclosed 11 Sep, cancelled 12 Sep with no shares sold
MSFT 10 Sep · report Bloomberg: internal plan for ~38GW of capacity in 2032 from ~12GW, excluding neocloud rentals. FQ4’26: rev $90.0bn +18%, Azure +43%. CY2026 capex ~$175bn after lease reclassification; >$50bn guided for FQ1’27
GOOGL 9 Sep · Finland €13bn AI infrastructure across 2027–28; 22-year Loviisa nuclear PPA with Fortum. Q2’26: cloud +82%, FCF −$5.9bn, buybacks paused. Call only: 2026 capex $195–205bn
AMZN 9 Sep · bond Debut £4.25bn sterling bond; 2026 issuance above $80bn. Q2’26: net sales $200.6bn +20%, AWS $42.2bn +37%. Call only: 2026 capex ~$220bn
CRWV 11 Aug · Q2’26 New today (price only). Rev $2,575m +112%; net loss $626m; backlog ~$104bn at 30 Jun; net interest $640m; CY2026 capex $35–39bn; debt ~$35bn. −7.8% to $82.01 in 14 Sep premarket; CEO Form 144 for 200,000 shares, GC sold ~97,500 around 8 Sep
NET 9 Sep · product OpenAI-powered vulnerability service inside Cloudflare Managed Defense
VRT 2 Sep · M&A UtilityInnovation Group for ~$1.45bn cash plus up to $1.15bn earnout; 2026 guide ~24% sales growth
GEV 9 Sep Lead bidder on an HVDC grid project; new CFO announced
SaaS & enterprise software
ADBE 10 Sep · FQ3’26 Rev $6.76bn +13%; non-GAAP EPS $6.13; Total Adobe ARR $27.5bn +11.2%; FY guide $26.576–26.626bn. CEO succession effective 1 Dec
CRM 26 Aug · FQ2’27 Rev $11.3bn +11% incl. $456m Informatica; cRPO $33.5bn +14%; non-GAAP op margin 34.1%
NOW 22 Jul · Q2’26 Subscription revenue growth 24–25%, guidance raised. Sweep acquisition 8 Sep
SNOW 2 Sep · FQ2’27 Product revenue $1.49bn +37%; FY product revenue outlook ~$6.07bn
MDB 1 Sep · FQ2’27 Rev ~$688m +30%
PANW 1 Sep · FQ4/FY26 Q4 rev $3.41bn +34%; NGS ARR $9.10bn +63%; FY27 guide $14.10–14.20bn. PAN-OS CVE-2026-0310 disclosed 9 Sep, found internally, no known exploitation
DDOG 6 Aug · Q2’26 Rev ~$1.12bn +36%; FY guidance raised
CRWD 26 Aug · FQ2’27 Results on 8-K. Retained by OpenAI to validate the Hugging Face incident analysis
SAP 8 Sep · press Bloomberg: supervisory board members believe SAP needs an AI breakthrough within months
HUBS —
WDAY —
Ads & adtech
META 8 Sep · launch Muse personal AI agent; free tier capped at 100m tokens a week plus reported $20 / $100 tiers. Q2’26: rev $60.801bn +28%. Call only: 2026 capex $130–145bn
TTD 4 Sep · 8-K 15% headcount reduction (~575 roles), charges up to $51m; removed from the S&P 500
ROKU 9 Sep · 8-K DOJ Second Request on the $22bn Fox acquisition
ZETA 8–9 Sep · conferences 2025 net revenue retention 120%; average deal size up 40%
NFLX 16 Jul · Q2’26 Q3 results reported for 20 Oct (aggregator date)
Consumer platforms & commerce
UBER 10 Sep · Form 4 New today. CEO bought 141,000 shares at $70.9642 weighted average, ~$10m; holds 1,367,100 directly. Close reported at $72.56; the day’s % move is disputed. COO bought 70,000 shares, ~$5.31m, disclosed 8 Sep
BKNG 9 Sep · court EU General Court upheld the veto of the €1.63bn eTraveli acquisition
ABNB 8 Sep · session Upgraded to Outperform at Raymond James. Q2’26 revenue $3.6bn +17%
SHOP 8 Sep · session Fell 7–8% with no identified catalyst, after a more than 25% August
WMT 20 Aug $2.9bn tariff refund
Hardware & devices
DELL 11 Sep · session New today. About +10–11% on 11 Sep, intraday all-time high above $562, on RBC Outperform initiation, PT $640. FQ2’27: rev $47.0bn +58%; AI server revenue $16.4bn; AI orders $60.9bn; backlog $95.0bn; FY27 guide ~$192bn. ~$4bn of senior notes to refinance Oct 2026 maturities
AAPL 12–14 Sep · pre-orders New today. iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders opened 12 Sep 05:00 PT; US delivery estimates by 14 Sep: Pro 29 Sep–6 Oct, Pro Max 6–13 Oct (2TB still on launch day); launch day 18 Sep. iPhone Duo pre-orders 16 Oct, ships 23 Oct
CSCO 9 Sep Middle East AI partnership with AMD reported
Space & mobility
SPCX 9–10 Sep · reports Data-centre build slowdown and leadership reshuffle reported; 30 Sep deadline on a reported $920m-per-month Google compute arrangement. Starship Flight 14 window now 18 Sep. First 10-Q 4 Aug; pre-February-2026 figures retrospectively recast
TSLA 8–9 Sep · sessions FSD cleared in Slovenia; paid Cybercab rides in Austin from 3 Sep. Q2’26: rev $28.24bn, deliveries 480,126, operating income $398m, FCF −$1.09bn. Roadster event invitations out, date reported as both 1 Oct and 10 Oct

On the calendar

  • Mon 14 Sep, 10:30 BRTUS cash open, with the Nasdaq-100 indicated about 1.5% lower. The first test of whether the chip sell-off holds past the premarket.
  • Tue 15 – Wed 16 SepFOMC meeting. Markets price roughly an 86–88% chance of a 25bp hike after August core CPI came in at +0.3% month on month. Decision Wednesday at 14:00 ET, 15:00 BRT.
  • Fri 18 SepiPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max launch-day deliveries and in-store availability.
  • Fri 18 Sep, 09:15 BRTSpaceX Starship Flight 14 launch window opens (12:15–14:14 UTC), per an FAA airspace notice, with 19 September as backup. Moved from the 15 September date in the earlier FCC filing. Aimed at a first orbital flight carrying payload. Not a company-confirmed date.
  • Wed 30 SepDeadline on the reported $920m-per-month SpaceX–Google compute arrangement.
  • Wed 30 Sep, 17:30 BRTMicron fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 results, 14:30 Mountain. The first hard read on HBM pricing since the essay.
  • Tue 6 OctMarvell investor day.
  • Thu 8 Oct, 02:30 BRTTSMC September monthly sales, 13:30 Taipei, confirmed on the company’s financial calendar. Completes 3Q26 against the $44.6–45.8bn guide.
  • Wed 14 OctASML third-quarter 2026 results, before the European open, per data-provider listings. Not yet confirmed on ASML’s own calendar page.
  • Thu 15 Oct (est.)TSMC third-quarter 2026 results, a forecast date. Not on the company’s financial calendar yet.
  • Fri 16 OctiPhone Duo pre-orders open.
  • Tue 20 OctNetflix third-quarter 2026 results, after the close, per data-provider listings.
  • October (reported)Anthropic’s targeted Nasdaq listing, per reports of a confidential filing on 1 June. OpenAI has now ruled out a 2026 IPO. Whether Anthropic’s timing holds after its CEO’s essay is the open question.

Story worth owning

Pacing capability is not pacing compute: which covered backlogs are actually written against the two labs

This morning the market treats “slow the frontier” as “buy fewer chips”. The essay does not say that. It proposes embedded evaluators, shared standards and international limits, and all of these add compute per model rather than remove it. Meanwhile the inference load from models already deployed keeps growing whatever the release schedule. The sell-off is a guess about second-order behaviour, not a reading of the text.

The piece nobody independent has written is a counterparty map. Take every covered name whose forward numbers rest on Anthropic or OpenAI and sort the exposure by contract type. Take-or-pay capacity sits at CoreWeave and in Oracle’s RPO. Named purchase commitments are AMD’s $29–30bn. Custom-silicon programmes sit at Broadcom and Marvell. Warrant-linked supply deals are a fourth category. Then ask what a real pacing regime would change in each. Take-or-pay is paid regardless. Warrant vesting tied to purchase volumes is not. Custom silicon for the next generation of training runs is the most exposed of all.

Her Frontier Labs study already carries the compute-deal register (with the standing rule never to total it), and the Anthropic and OpenAI studies are live. The work is to join that register to the coverage table name by name. The result is a ranking of which names are selling off on sentiment and which carry contractual exposure to a slower frontier. If today’s biggest decliners turn out to be the take-or-pay names, the market has it backwards.

Sources

  1. We Must Pace the Frontier — Dario Amodei, 12 Sep 2026
  2. OpenAI rules out IPO this year as Altman, Musk & Amodei warn AI is moving too fast — CNBC, 12 Sep 2026
  3. OpenAI, Anthropic and Musk converge on an unusual idea: slow the AI race — CoinDesk, 12 Sep 2026
  4. Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won’t go public this year — Fortune, 12 Sep 2026
  5. OpenAI’s Altman Says No IPO in 2026 — Bloomberg, 12 Sep 2026
  6. Stock market today: futures fall as Anthropic’s AI warning spooks tech traders, oil prices jump — Yahoo Finance, 14 Sep 2026
  7. Nvidia, chip stocks fall as AI CEOs call for slowdown — Yahoo Finance, 14 Sep 2026
  8. AI Semiconductor Stocks Are Plunging in Pre-Market Today — TipRanks, 14 Sep 2026
  9. Why Are Memory and Storage Stocks Tumbling in Pre-Market Today, Sept. 14? — TipRanks, 14 Sep 2026
  10. Stock Futures Slide as AI IPO Shakeup and Oil Surge Rattle Markets — IC Markets, 14 Sep 2026
  11. KOSPI Opens Down 3% as SK hynix Sinks More Than 5% — Seoul Economic Daily, 14 Sep 2026
  12. TAIEX closes below 46,000 as tech stocks slide — Taiwan News, 14 Sep 2026
  13. Taiex ends down but recoups some losses on tech, financial rebound — Focus Taiwan, 14 Sep 2026
  14. Why is CoreWeave stock sliding today? — Investing.com, 14 Sep 2026
  15. Oracle stock trims gains as AI cloud demand outpaces supply — Yahoo Finance, 11 Sep 2026
  16. Oracle (ORCL) price history — StockAnalysis, accessed 14 Sep 2026
  17. Oracle’s Larry Ellison adopts trading plan to sell up to $7.5 billion worth of stock — CNBC, 11 Sep 2026
  18. Larry Ellison nixes plan to offload up to $7.5 billion worth of Oracle stock — CNBC, 12 Sep 2026
  19. Larry Ellison Ends Plan to Sell Up to $7.5 Billion in Oracle Stock — Bloomberg, 12 Sep 2026
  20. Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock — TechCrunch, 13 Sep 2026
  21. Here’s Why ORCL’s Larry Ellison Just Canceled $7.5 Billion Stock Sale — 24/7 Wall St., 13 Sep 2026
  22. Dell shares jump 11% to all-time high on RBC Outperform initiation — Yahoo Finance, 11 Sep 2026
  23. Dell stock jumps on RBC initiation, now up nearly 350% in 2026 — CNBC, 11 Sep 2026
  24. Top S&P500 movers in Friday’s session — ChartMill, 11 Sep 2026
  25. Uber CEO buys 141,000 shares of common stock — StreetInsider, Sep 2026
  26. Uber Stock Rallies 2.1% to $72.56 as CEO Buys $10M in Shares — TipRanks, 10 Sep 2026
  27. Didn’t Pre-Order an iPhone 18 Pro Yet? Wait Times Are Even Longer Now — MacRumors, 14 Sep 2026
  28. iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders off to a surprisingly slow start — AppleInsider, 12 Sep 2026
  29. Surprisingly weak demand seen as pre-orders open for the iPhone 18 Pro — PhoneArena, 12 Sep 2026
  30. Stock Market Today (Sept. 11, 2026) — TheStreet, 11 Sep 2026
  31. Fed rate hike in September is all but guaranteed after CPI report, economists say — CBS News, Sep 2026
  32. The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead — OpenAI, Sep 2026
  33. SpaceX Starship Flight 14 Targeting September 18 Launch — Basenor, Sep 2026
  34. Tesla Sets Oct 1 Roadster SpaceX Thruster Demo — KeepTrack, 13 Sep 2026
  35. TSMC Financial Calendar — TSMC investor relations, accessed 14 Sep 2026
  36. Larry Ellison Cancels His Plan to Sell Oracle Stock — Oracle investor relations, 12 Sep 2026
  37. Oracle Form 10-Q, quarter ended 31 Aug 2026 — SEC EDGAR, 11 Sep 2026
  38. iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max pre-orders now delayed to October for most models — 9to5Mac, 14 Sep 2026
  39. Starship Flight 14 moves toward a September 18 launch window — New Space Economy, 13 Sep 2026
  40. ASML earnings date — TipRanks, accessed 14 Sep 2026
  41. Netflix earnings calendar — Wall Street Horizon, accessed 14 Sep 2026

Carried forward from previous editions, for the standing figures reused in the capex chart and the coverage table:

  1. TSMC August 2026 Revenue Report — TSMC investor relations, 10 Sep 2026
  2. Oracle Q1 fiscal 2027 earnings report — CNBC, 10 Sep 2026
  3. CoreWeave Reports Strong Second Quarter 2026 Results — CoreWeave investor relations, 11 Aug 2026
  4. Qualcomm Form 8-K, Item 3.02 — Amazon warrant — SEC EDGAR, 8 Sep 2026
  5. Broadcom Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results — Broadcom investor relations, 2 Sep 2026
  6. Meta Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results — Meta investor relations, 29 Jul 2026
  7. Alphabet second-quarter 2026 results and raised capex guidance — CNBC, 22 Jul 2026
  8. Microsoft FY2026 Q4 earnings materials — Microsoft investor relations, 29 Jul 2026
  9. Micron record results for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 — Micron investor relations, 24 Jun 2026
  10. Intel upsize and pricing of the $20bn common stock offering — Intel investor relations, 11 Aug 2026
  11. Microsoft AI-Focused Data Center Plan — Bloomberg, 10 Sep 2026

All figures are as reported by companies, their investor-relations releases, or the news sources listed above. They have not been independently verified against SEC filings or audited statements. Figures from press reports rather than company disclosures are labelled as such. Premarket percentages for Monday 14 September are indicative readings taken before 07:00 BRT from several sources that disagree, and they will be stale by the 10:30 BRT open. Many of the capex and forward-revenue figures are from earnings calls and investor conferences rather than filed releases, and are marked “call only”. Guidance ranges and fiscal-year definitions differ between companies and are not like-for-like. Rows in “Where each name stands” with no new disclosure are carried forward from previous editions. Before publication an independent verification pass checked fifteen groups of figures against second sources and corrected five: Fed hike odds (now 86–88%), Oracle’s opening gap (7.5%, not 8.5%), the source of the Ellison disclosure (the 10-Q), Dell’s all-time high (intraday, not a close) and Uber’s 10 September move (disputed). Nothing here is investment advice. Prepared for internal research use at CoreValue Research.

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