Daily digest · Saturday, September 19, 2026
Companies and policymakers pushed ahead on AI and tech spending: eGain and Cerebras cut forecasts and keep losing money, Infosys landed a new software contract, and Trump proposed an “AI Force.” Tech also spotlighted browser-tab overload and Petlibro’s new AI feeder, while Buffett’s long wait on Alphabet resurfaced.
1 · Yahoo Finance
Fiscal 2027 guidance projects total revenue of $84.5 million to $86.0 million and an adjusted EBITDA margin of just 1% to 2%, down from fiscal 2026 revenue of $91.1 million and adjusted EBITDA margin of 15%.
2 · Yahoo Finance
Infosys signed a long-term deal to manage Knorr-Bremse AG’s enterprise software across ERP, data platforms, engineering, and product lifecycle tools using Infosys Topaz AI, but it did not disclose the contract value.
3 · Yahoo Finance
Cerebras will build an AI data center in Mikkeli, Finland with contracted capacity scaling from 50 MW to 165 MW, even as it reported second-quarter GAAP operating margin of -265% (and -16% on its core measure).
4 · Engadget
Donald Trump said he will soon announce an “AI czar” to run a newly created “AI Force,” describing it as a way to “cherish,” “help,” and “watch over” AI as it grows.
5 · Yahoo Finance
First Phosphate says the Swiss government is guaranteeing up to 85% of export financing aimed at its Bégin-Lamarche mine, providing a $212.5 million CapEx guarantee.
6 · Engadget
Your Android phone can automatically decline blocked calls (and usually route texts to a blocked/spam folder) and you can later unblock the number from the Phone or Contacts app.
7 · The Verge
Anamanaguchi’s Luke Silas says he has 46 tabs open in one Firefox window and 31 in another—“Too goddamn many.”
8 · TechCrunch
Two viral remarks—Andrew Yang’s claim that Hugging Face hacker bots planted self-replicating code that made the internet unusable for AI testing, and Noam Brown’s focus on “people underestimated the AI” and weak sandboxing—underscore how hard it is to separate AI safety fact from fiction.
9 · TechCrunch
Petlibro’s Granary 2 dry-food feeder adds a built-in scale plus an app that estimates how much food was actually eaten by tracking both what was dispensed and what remains, alongside data on intake, eating duration, feeding frequency, and eating patterns over time.
10 · Yahoo Finance
Alphabet’s stock surged nearly 9,000% before Warren Buffett and Greg Abel finally bought shares in the third quarter of last year, after which they have plowed tens of billions of dollars into Alphabet and made it one of Berkshire Hathaway’s biggest investments.
