[scuttleslops] FICO, PAYC, ABNB, TREX, Anthropic

FICO would rather not talk about prices anymore; Paycom’s AI opportunity starts with its own expenses; Airbnb wants to be the travel agent, not just the booking site; Trex is prioritizing volume over pricing; who pays for AI? Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Domino’s Pizza, Xpel, Constellation Software, Otis, Badger Meter, Tractor Supply, Fortive, […]

[scuttleslops] INTC, AMD, Anthropic, BKNG, NEE, PLTR

Intel can’t make enough CPUs; AMD is supply constrained too but appears to be taking server CPU share from Intel; Anthropic must keep spending its inference profits; AI agents might prefer dealing with Booking; NextEra powers the AI boom; Palantir wants to own the last mile of AI What are scuttleslops? Intel, Q3 ‘26 Earnings […]

update on Gartner

Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Domino’s Pizza, Constellation Software, Otis, Badger Meter, Tractor Supply, Fortive, and Veralto. Gartner has long positioned itself as a purveyor of indispensable, objective research and advice for enterprises, first in IT-related matters and later in domains like HR, finance, sales, and legal. Its counsel has historically been most in […]

[scuttleslops] RDDT, AI and cybersecurity, AMZN, MU, META, BLDR, RYAN

Google is reading Reddit and sending it less traffic; cybersecurity is entering a dangerous new era; AWS is on its way to $1 trillion; Micron is trying to differentiate its memory; Meta’s advantage in personal AI agents; Builders FirstSource faces a brutal housing market and intensifying price competition; Ryan Specialty faces a tough E&S market […]

[scuttleslops] GOOGL, AMZN, BRO, KNSL, ODFL, MCO, SPGI

AI could improve Google’s ad economics; AI agents need Amazon; more specialty insurance risks are becoming conventional; Kinsale’s competitors are getting reckless; Old Dominion is sitting on excess capacity and taking price; AI investment is boosting the credit ratings business; S&P Global wants to be infrastructure, not tools Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Domino’s […]

[scuttleslops] SPCX, TXN, ROL, URI

SpaceX is coming for the telcos; turns out Texas Instruments was early, not wrong; Rollins’ customer acquisition is being upended by agents; United Rentals is running hot Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Domino’s Pizza, Constellation Software, Otis, Gartner, Badger Meter, Tractor Supply, Fortive, and Veralto. What are scuttleslops? Stratechery interview with Craig Moffett About […]

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[ISRG – Intuitive Surgical] the robot is the easy part

Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Constellation Software, Otis, Gartner, Badger Meter, Tractor Supply, Fortive, and Veralto. Intuitive Surgical is an improbable success. The founding vision of SRI International (Stanford Research Institute, Intuitive’s spin-off parent) – a remote controlled robotic surgeon that could operate on wounded soldiers in distant battlefields – was nothing short of […]

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[scuttleslops] AMZN, MTCH, SPOT, Open vs. closed models

Agents are less disruptive to commerce than you think; how Match is trying to find its spark; the podcast economy; open models have a place Upcoming posts (in no particular order): Constellation Software, Otis, Gartner, Badger Meter, Tractor Supply, Intuitive Surgical, Fortive, and Veralto What are scuttleslops? Mobile Dev Memo; Will consumers adopt agentic commerce? […]

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