
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email No newsletter next week. Try to amuse yourselves. News Oracle “Beats”: Q3 FY26 Oracle “beat” the number this quarter and Wall Street sent the stock upwards almost…

Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Still more narratives than dollars. News Did OpenAI Find the Money This Week? Announcing spending plans is easy. Paying for them is hard. Especially when the funding…

Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email We are all truly now CAPEX obsessives and it is exhausting. Another candidate for describing our noble readers: platformniacs. No small number of you are no doubt…

Tl;dr another installment of They Don’t Have the Money (previous edition: Oracle) OpenAI’s Wile E. Coyote moment approaches. OpenAI is the generational company of generative AI (sorry Meta, sorry Elon, it isn’t even close). They defined the space and lead the market, combining enormous ambition with stratospheric spending plans, unironically projecting needs in the trillions…