The Treble acoustic simulation platform has closed an $18 million Series A-2 round, bringing the Reykjavik-based startup deeper into one of AI’s fastest-expanding infrastructure debates: how do you train a machine to hear, not just see? The round was led by Paladin Capital Group and closed on 17 September 2026, according to The SaaS News. Existing backers KOMPAS VC, Frumtak Ventures, EIC, and Omega ehf also participated. The company has now raised over $40 million in total, with audioXpress reporting the cumulative figure at approximately €36 million across all rounds. Treble was founded in 2020 by acoustic engineers Finnur Pind…
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Funke Adeyemi spent a decade in corporate banking and fintech before moving to business journalism. She started in trade finance at a major UK bank, moved to a payments company scaling into African markets, and spent her last role leading partnerships at a cross-border remittance platform. She writes about business strategy, fintech, digital banking, and the corporate news that moves markets. She is interested in how companies actually make money rather than how they describe making money in investor presentations. Funke lives in South London. She reads earnings calls the way other people listen to podcasts, and finds them about as reliable.
Jeff Gundlach, founder of DoubleLine and one of the most prominent bond investors in the United States, argued Wednesday that the Federal Reserve’s Gundlach Fed rate hike of 25 basis points fell well short of what the situation demanded, and that policymakers should have moved by twice as much.The FOMC voted 12-0 on 16 September 2026 to raise the federal funds rate by 25 basis points, bringing the target range to 3.75%–4.00%, the Fed’s first increase since 2023. The committee said in its statement that ‘inflation remains elevated’ and that the move would ‘support a timelier return to the Committee’s…
Apollo Global Management’s chief economist has put hyperscaler credit default swaps at the centre of a fresh debate about how much financial risk the AI infrastructure boom is quietly accumulating. In a 16 September Daily Spark note, Torsten Slok, Apollo’s partner and chief economist, argued that rising CDS prices on bonds issued by the giant cloud computing platforms powering artificial intelligence are not a technical artefact of dealer hedging. They reflect something more fundamental. ‘What the market is repricing is hyperscaler credit fundamentals, namely a debt-financed AI capex cycle with rising leverage, negative free cash flow and uncertain payback on…
A VIX put options trade worth roughly $6 million landed in the Chicago pits on Tuesday, and the traders who saw it are still trying to work out what, exactly, the buyer was after. Around 10am Chicago time, a single market participant purchased 563 contracts of the 110-strike puts on the Cboe VIX Index expiring on 21 October, paying approximately $91 per contract for a total of $5.1 million. A separate leg followed: $1.2 million of 130-strike puts expiring on 18 November, the scheduled release date for the next set of Federal Open Market Committee minutes. Neither strike had any…
Amazon’s Alexa+ India Hindi launch marks the company’s most ambitious push yet into a country where more than 600 million people speak the language. The upgraded, generative AI-powered assistant is now available in India under Early Access, supporting both Hindi and English, with users able to switch between the two mid-sentence. The rollout follows a testing programme Amazon began in June, when it invited users to hold Hindi-language conversations with the assistant. An English version followed shortly after. The Early Access period carries no charge; once it closes, Prime members will continue to use Alexa+ at no additional cost, while…
Before an audience of roughly 53,000 people at Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2024, Jensen Huang’s stance on Jensen Huang AI regulation was unambiguous: the industry does not need new laws, and the market will sort it out. Speaking on 17 September in a session titled ‘Trailblazing the Future of AI’ alongside Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, Nvidia’s founder and chief executive argued that artificial intelligence is simply a computing system and that existing legal frameworks are sufficient to govern it. ‘Safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one,’ Huang said. ‘We’re developing software after all. We’re developing computing systems after all. It’s a…
A single research report has recast the arithmetic of American energy: BloombergNEF’s latest projections show data center gas demand reaching 18 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) by 2035, a figure that would exceed Germany and Japan’s combined consumption and, on the grid-connected side alone, surpass the current natural gas appetite of every nation except China, Russia, Iran, and the United States itself. The scale of the revision is as striking as the headline number. BloombergNEF’s previous forecast for grid-connected data centres, issued in December, put that figure at 6.9 Bcf/d. The new estimate: 15 Bcf/d, more than double, in…
The AI investment theme shift that has been quietly reshaping portfolios for months has now crossed a threshold: the easy phase, when every bet on silicon and servers looked like a sure thing, is done. Semiconductor shares were already 20% off their June highs before Monday’s 4% slide, and the tech sector of the S&P 500 has watched its forward price-to-earnings multiple compress from 29 to 21 over the past year. The market, in short, has stopped granting the benefit of the doubt. Mike Santoli, CNBC’s senior markets commentator, frames the moment with a borrowed line. When Daniel Patrick Moynihan…
The Jensen Huang Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 was not on anyone’s agenda at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles this week, but it walked away as one of the more discussed devices in Silicon Valley. When President Trump rang Huang live on stage, the Nvidia chief executive reached for a foldable phone to take the call, and the internet immediately began speculating about which one it was.The answer, after an earlier misidentification, is the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8: a device launched at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event on 22 July 2026 and released to the public on 7 August.…
Amazon’s Prime Video short-form clips are moving into news, with the company announcing on-demand video bites covering both local and national stories, available initially on TVs and living room devices before rolling out to the web and Prime Video’s iOS and Android apps.The clips will live inside the News destination within the Prime Video app, surfaced through Trending Topics and Local News carousels. Access requires no Prime subscription: the news offering is free to all US users, as is Prime Video’s existing local, national, and world news from major providers.How Prime Video Short-Form Clips Fit the Broader Platform OverhaulThe news…
