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 1, 2026 · 8:10 AM

SK hynix shows why AI investors are moving into memory

The AI infrastructure trade is shifting from GPUs alone to the memory systems that keep them useful. SK hynix remains the clearest HBM leader, while Samsung’s new HBM4E samples show the race is tightening.

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 1, 2026 · 3:57 AM

Tesla faces a trust problem inside its own self-driving AI team

Former Tesla data labelers reportedly told Reuters they would not trust Full Self-Driving to drive them. The concern lands as regulators examine Tesla’s safety claims and the company leans harder on robotaxis as a core part of its future value.

Elroy Fernandes · Jun 1, 2026 · 12:07 AM

California moves to pause AI chatbot toys before they reach kids

California's SB 867 would pause the sale and manufacture of toys with companion AI chatbots until 2031 while regulators develop safety rules. The bill has cleared the Senate and moved to the Assembly, putting toy makers, retailers, and AI platform partners on early notice.

Elroy Fernandes · May 31, 2026 · 9:49 PM

Wix's 1,000 job cuts show AI is now a margin story

Wix is cutting about 1,000 jobs, roughly 20% of its workforce, as it restructures around AI and margin pressure. The move shows how AI is becoming both a product strategy and a cost problem for software companies.

Elroy Fernandes · May 31, 2026 · 7:08 PM

Wix cuts 1,000 jobs as AI changes the software company playbook

Wix is cutting roughly 1,000 jobs, about 20% of its workforce, as CEO Avishai Abrahami cites AI-driven operating changes and currency pressure. The move shows how AI is shifting from a software feature into a headcount and margin story for SaaS companies.

Elroy Fernandes · May 31, 2026 · 2:38 PM

Joby brings the air taxi race back to Manhattan.

Joby Aviation's Manhattan demonstration showed how electric air taxis could use existing airport and heliport routes before broader networks arrive. The real test now is FAA certification, infrastructure readiness and whether Joby's balance sheet can carry it through commercialization.

Elroy Fernandes · May 31, 2026 · 10:25 AM

Dell is preparing an XPS laptop with Nvidia N1X for Computex

Dell’s leaked Computex materials point to an XPS laptop powered by Nvidia’s N1X chip. If the machine delivers meaningful local AI performance in Windows, it could make edge inference a practical premium PC feature rather than a niche workstation idea.

Elroy Fernandes · May 31, 2026 · 7:21 AM

AI still has not solved software pricing, and Snowflake knows it

Snowflake's latest quarter shows why AI is forcing enterprise software companies to rethink seat-based pricing. Its consumption model looks better suited to variable AI workloads, though investors still need proof that usage growth can stay predictable.

Elroy Fernandes · May 31, 2026 · 5:04 AM

Rivian is betting AI can make CarPlay feel unnecessary

Rivian is doubling down on its refusal to support Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, arguing that AI assistants will become the better interface for software-defined cars. The bet could strengthen Rivian's software moat, but only if drivers decide its own assistant is more useful than the phone systems they already trust.

Elroy Fernandes · May 31, 2026 · 2:45 AM

Kevin O'Leary is turning a data center fight into a China story

Kevin O'Leary's proposed Stratos data center in Utah has turned a local fight over land, power and water into a national argument about China and AI infrastructure. The backlash shows why data center developers need public trust as much as capital and compute.

Elroy Fernandes · May 30, 2026 · 11:18 PM

Euro-Office gives Europe a sovereign office suite to test Microsoft

Euro-Office will launch publicly on June 9 as a European open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs. Its biggest test is whether sovereignty, governance and procurement pressure can matter as much as Microsoft's entrenched feature set.

Elroy Fernandes · May 30, 2026 · 3:22 PM

Microsoft is betting its enterprise future on durable AI agents and the infrastructure race has already begun

Microsoft has rebuilt its Copilot platform around the Durable Task Framework and a unified Agent Framework that merges AutoGen and Semantic Kernel, positioning Azure as a native durable execution layer for enterprise agentic workflows. With 20 million paid Copilot enterprise seats and deep integration across Microsoft 365, the company is competing directly with Temporal and LangGraph on orchestration infrastructure while going head-to-head with Salesforce Agentforce on agentic enterprise positio

Elroy Fernandes · May 30, 2026 · 8:16 AM

Microsoft is building a super app to end its own AI fragmentation before rivals do it for them

Elroy Fernandes · May 30, 2026 · 1:46 AM

Citadel Securities posts record $4.3 billion quarter as geopolitical chaos turns into pure market-making fuel

Elroy Fernandes · May 29, 2026 · 3:56 PM

Liquid AI is betting that smaller edge models can beat bigger rivals

Liquid AI's latest push suggests the edge AI race will be won by models that run locally, stay efficient, and fit real hardware constraints.

Elroy Fernandes · May 29, 2026 · 11:22 AM

Pump.fun's $780M SOL Exit Breaks the Solana Chart Below $81

Pump.fun has converted $780 million in SOL to stablecoins, a long-term whale dumped $137 million more, and Goldman Sachs quietly exited its spot Solana ETF. With derivatives flipping net short and SOL below $81, the path of least resistance points toward $78 and $71.