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Protests have been announced in Berlin for tomorrow, and the first shops on the Ku’damm have already begun securing their storefront windows. I really don’t want to live in a city where things like this are happening. And I’m afraid that the policies of the Left, with…

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Google down 12%, ServiceNow down 27%: The tech sell-off dominates financial podcasts. Markus Koch says to buy, while Handelsblatt warns that Alphabet is a risky AI bet. And Samsung is crowned king of cash. Who’s right?

Elon pumping my $HYPE bags was definitely not on my 2026 bingo card. 🙏

Real pros at work there with the Berlin Left. They seriously send a document back to Der Spiegel with internal comments included—and in doing so make it public that they apparently fear their own people. 😂

AI finds Bitcoin bugs so quickly that Bitcoin Core changes its rules: Three bugs in version 32.1 were disclosed publicly right away instead of after two weeks. 🤖 Also: Diva Staking throws in the towel—and Ripple wants to enable RLUSD transactions without XRP.

BTC at around $80,000 after the Fed, ETH at 2,300 – The Block-Builders Briefing:

4/9 🤖 Gemini reaches 1 billion users Google's AI push has now reached enormous scale: • Gemini app: 1 billion users • 32 billion tokens per minute through its own model APIs • Token processing +40% compared with the previous quarter That’s around 46 trillion

9/9 🚀 Conclusion Alphabet benefits from the AI boom in several ways: Its own AI models and Gemini A rapidly growing cloud business Its own TPU chips and infrastructure A still highly profitable advertising business Particularly noteworthy is the combination of 103% cloud growth, 561

2/9 ☁️ Google Cloud is exploding
• Revenue: $30.7 billion (+103%)
• Operating income: $11.1 billion
• Operating margin: 36.2%
• Backlog: $561 billion
What’s particularly interesting: Sales of its own TPU systems are now contributing significantly to growth. So Google is selling its own TPUs...

5/9 🔎 Google Search continues to grow despite AI • Search revenue: $63.3 billion (+12%) • Highest annual growth in search queries in five years However, there’s a catch: Monetization of AI Mode is currently weaker than that of traditional Search. Google

3/9 💰 Google is investing staggering sums in AI
In the third quarter alone:
• CapEx: $51.4 billion
• Free cash flow: -$9.1 billion
Alphabet plans to invest a total of $195–205 billion in 2026.
And investments are expected to rise significantly again in 2027.
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If you’re still bearish on neoclouds, remember that even Google doesn’t have enough compute capacity and has to buy additional capacity from them.

I have to admit, the price did hurt when ordering.😬 #Apple #OLED MacBook Pro

Solana's approach to security is getting weird. Want to report a critical bug in Firedancer? That'll cost you 1 SOL (~$100) upfront. Even if your bug is legitimate, you won't get that money back. Jump Crypto says AI has made finding bugs cheap, but reviewing them expensive.

All recommendations and warnings from nine episodes of German financial podcasts in the Podcast Radar: