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The AI infrastructure buildout is increasingly running on borrowed money, and that's drawing fresh scrutiny. Hyperscalers and data center developers are tapping bond markets, sale-leaseback structures, and private capital at scale, while leveraged investors layer on top. The result is a financing web that's growing faster than anyone can cleanly map, and that opacity is itself a risk worth pricing.
Shifting to software, GB Group is the cautionary tale this morning, with shares down twenty-five percent after the identity verification company slashed its fiscal twenty twenty-seven margin and revenue growth outlook. The culprit is its Americas Identity business, which came in well below expectations. It's a pointed reminder that enterprise software exposed to North American spending cycles is not immune to demand softness, even in a sector with structural tailwinds.
And in Redmond, Microsoft is taking a meaningful step toward its super app ambitions, beginning to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot platforms. The rollout starts with a narrow user base but the direction is clear — a unified experience spanning chat, coding, and autonomous functions. For Microsoft's commercial cloud story, tighter Copilot integration is both a retention play and a competitive moat.
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