Elroy Fernandes

Elroy is a digital marketer and developer from Goa, with over a decade of experience web development and marketing. He has been associated with several startups and serves currently as an Editor to the Asia Pacific Industrial magazine. He occasionally writes on Startup Fortune about technology and automation.

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Elroy Fernandes · Jun 12, 2026 · 7:19 PM

Apple bets its anti-flattery Siri AI will outperform ChatGPT's engagement play

Apple's Craig Federighi positioned the new Siri AI explicitly against sycophancy on June 11, describing rival chatbots as engagement traps and declaring that romantic interaction is not something Siri will offer. Built on Google Gemini and launching with iOS 27 this fall in English-speaking markets, Siri is engineered around task completion rather than stickiness. The move reframes the engagement metrics race the AI industry has been optimizing for, and quietly hands Google infrastructure-level

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 12, 2026 · 3:41 PM

Google sues the cybercrime ring that turned Gemini AI into a phishing machine

Google sued a Chinese cybercrime operation called the Outsider Enterprise for using Gemini AI to send 2.5 million phishing texts to Android users over two weeks in May 2026. The case is one of the first major lawsuits targeting criminal misuse of a frontier AI model, but it raises hard questions about whether platform liability ends with suing the abuser and whether the industry's siloed abuse-detection systems are sufficient to meet the scale of the threat.

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 12, 2026 · 12:54 PM

Avataar builds video AI on Indian cultural data, winning HP and Victoria's Secret as customers

Avataar's Varya video model, distilled from Alibaba's open-source Wan 2.2 and fine-tuned on Indian cultural data, has landed HP, Victoria's Secret, and Newegg as paying customers through its Velocity product. The startup is one of twelve selected for India's $1.25 billion AI Mission, which trades subsidized GPU compute for publicly released models. The real question is whether cultural fine-tuning and existing customer relationships can hold off hyperscalers who could replicate the underlying te

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 12, 2026 · 10:30 AM

Dreame Technology pursues a Hong Kong IPO at $9.6 billion as the world's top robotic vacuum maker tests whether consumer hardware can match the market's humanoid fever

Dreame Technology, ranked No.1 in global robot vacuum sales and revenue by IDC, is raising pre-IPO capital at a 70 billion yuan ($9.6 billion) valuation ahead of a planned Hong Kong IPO application in H2 2026. The company posted over 40 billion yuan in 2025 revenue across 120-plus countries and joins a wave of Chinese tech unicorns choosing Hong Kong as their listing venue of choice. Its public debut will test whether consumer robotics can command the same valuation premiums the market currently

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 12, 2026 · 8:08 AM

BofA flagged seven of ten bear signals and Broadcom's miss confirmed the call

Bank of America strategist Savita Subramanian issued a rare take-profits call in early June, flagging seven of ten internal bear-market signals, and within days a Broadcom guidance miss sent chip stocks to their worst session in six years while erasing more than $1.3 trillion in market value. The S&P 500 fell 4.5% from its June 1 record and the Nasdaq dropped 7% from its peak, with BofA noting the market trades expensive on 17 of 20 valuation metrics and that the performance spread in tech stock

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 12, 2026 · 5:41 AM

OpenAI weighs drastic token price cuts as Anthropic eclipses its valuation

OpenAI is weighing significant token price cuts after Anthropic's $965 billion valuation eclipsed its own, fueled by Claude Code crossing $1 billion in revenue within six months. Both companies have filed confidentially for IPOs, creating a bind where cutting prices compresses the margins they need to demonstrate to public investors. For developers the cuts would be a relief, but a sustained price war risks commoditizing frontier models and squeezing the AI infrastructure startups caught in the

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 11, 2026 · 11:42 PM

DoorDash turns cookbook photos into grocery carts with a new AI chatbot that could reshape how the company makes money

DoorDash launched Ask DoorDash on June 11, an in-app AI chatbot that builds grocery carts from cookbook photos, surfaces restaurants via natural-language prompts, and books reservations. Early data shows chatbot-assembled carts run 35% higher in average order value and complete five times faster, giving DoorDash a defensible monetization wedge and a new licensing pitch aimed at grocers and retailers.

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 11, 2026 · 9:16 PM

OpenAI buys Ona as it moves to own the full stack underneath its AI agents

OpenAI announced on June 11 that it is acquiring Ona, a startup providing secure cloud execution environments for AI agents, folding the team into its Codex product. The deal signals OpenAI's ambition to own the full agentic infrastructure stack ahead of a planned Q4 2026 IPO, raising competitive questions about its relationships with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 11, 2026 · 6:53 PM

Japan reclassifies crypto as a financial instrument, setting a template other major economies may soon feel pressure to follow

Japan's House of Representatives passed a bill on June 11 reclassifying crypto assets as financial instruments under the same law governing stocks and bonds, introducing insider trading bans, mandatory disclosures, and a pathway for crypto ETFs. The legislation also cuts the capital gains tax on crypto from as high as 55% to a flat 20% rate. The bill now heads to the upper house for expected passage, with implementation targeted for 2027.

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 11, 2026 · 4:31 PM

Senator Elizabeth Warren wants Wall Street to reveal exactly how deep its AI debt exposure goes

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 11, 2026 · 2:04 PM

Meta is now physically dismantling its $2 billion Manus deal and the cleanup is proving harder than the deal ever was

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 11, 2026 · 11:41 AM

SpaceX wins investment-grade ratings from all three major agencies as it prices the largest IPO in market history at $135 a share

SpaceX secured investment-grade ratings from Moody's, S&P Global, and Fitch on the eve of its Nasdaq IPO, locking in lower borrowing costs tied to a $20 billion bridge loan. The company prices at $135 per share today targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation, with Starlink's $11.4 billion revenue and $4.4 billion operating profit doing the heavy lifting for a business that reported a $4.94 billion net loss in 2025. Morningstar pegs fair value at roughly half the offering price, setting up a defining

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 11, 2026 · 9:17 AM

TDK's $400 million acquisition of Fabric8Labs proves that keeping AI chips cool has become as strategically important as building them

TDK Corporation agreed on June 10, 2026 to acquire Fabric8Labs for up to $400 million, gaining a proprietary metal 3D printing process that cuts AI accelerator temperatures by up to 7°C per kilowatt. The deal reflects a broader M&A surge in liquid cooling as GPU thermal loads push past what conventional infrastructure can handle, and signals Japanese conglomerates moving aggressively to buy into the US AI hardware supply chain before domestic consolidation locks them out.

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 11, 2026 · 6:52 AM

China sank a data center in the ocean and it outperforms anything America has built on land

HiCloud Technology has brought the world's first offshore wind-powered underwater data center into full commercial operation off Shanghai's Lingang coast. The 24MW facility achieves a PUE of 1.15, cuts electricity use by nearly 23%, and eliminates freshwater cooling entirely , while US data center operators battle grid queues, water rights fights, and community moratoriums. The contrast raises a pointed question about whether Western AI infrastructure is structurally overbuilt before a single ra

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 11, 2026 · 4:28 AM

Cyera raises $600 million at $12 billion valuation as AI data security hardens into must-have enterprise infrastructure

Cyera raised $600 million in a Series G led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $12 billion valuation, quadrupling from $3 billion just 18 months ago with over $2 billion in total funding. The AI-native data security company has scaled to 1,500 employees, completed five acquisitions including Ryft and Genie Security, and is building what it calls the trust layer enterprises need before deploying AI at scale. The rapid valuation step-function signals that AI data governance is hardening from option

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 11, 2026 · 2:04 AM

Amazon's $17.5 billion no-covenant loan tells you everything about how Wall Street is betting on AI