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Hundreds of investing and finance newsletters hit my (and maybe your) inbox every week. This is the best of the best of tech from the past week. Every Monday, we’ll tackle policy, and every Wednesday, we’ll recap finance.
This week, on Tech Wrapped, we’ve got…
💰 Oracle’s Future Is in Its Backlog
⚡️ The Tech Ticker
🎧 Apple’s Back With the Same Old Stuff
🤖 All Eyes on AI
😆 Meme of the Week
🎙️ Oracle’s Moonshot and Milk’s Meme Revival
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It was a BIG week for Google and robots. We’ll break that down below.
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💰 Oracle’s $455 Billion Backlog Sends Stock Soaring
Oracle stunned Wall Street this week with a $455 billion backlog of contracted cloud revenue, sending its stock up more than 40% and briefly making co‑founder Larry Ellison the richest man alive. The company inked multibillion‑dollar deals with OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, and AMD, cementing its role as the go‑to infrastructure provider for the AI boom.
oracle engineers when you ask what they do
— #pdawg (#@prathamgrv)
5:24 PM • Sep 10, 2025
CEO Safra Catz, who personally gained $412 million in a single trading session, told analysts the backlog will soon top half a trillion dollars. Oracle’s pivot from cloud laggard to AI kingmaker has been years in the making, but this quarter’s results show it is finally paying off.
Boomers watching their idol Larry Ellison pass Elon Musk as the wealthiest person in the world after Oracle’s stock surge
— #Dividend Hero (#@HeroDividend)
4:48 PM • Sep 10, 2025
Oracle has become one of the few companies selling the “picks and shovels” of the AI rush. If demand for AI workloads keeps climbing, Oracle stock may still have room to run.
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Nepal just elected its interim Prime Minister through a Discord vote after Gen Z overthrew the government.
Reddit launched new publisher tools under its Reddit Pro suite, offering article insights, RSS feed syncing, and AI‑driven community suggestions.
Bluesky introduced age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming, requiring users to prove their age to comply with state laws.
Arc signed a $160 million deal with Curtin Maritime to build eight electric tugboats, each with 4,000hp propulsion and 6MWh batteries.
YouTube rolled out multi‑language audio dubbing to all creators, powered by Google’s Gemini AI. Some early adopters report tripling international views.
Australia awarded Anduril a $1.1 billion contract for its Ghost Shark undersea drones, outpacing the US Navy’s delayed Orca program.
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🎧 Apple and Klarna Both Bet on Reinvention
Apple unveiled the AirPods Pro 3, its first “major” update in three years, adding a heart‑rate sensor, improved noise cancellation, and even live translation. People mainly talked about the live translation thing, not because it’s insanely amazing, but because there wasn’t much else interesting in Apple’s entire reveal.
The new Apple live translation is just too accurate.
— #Zapzy (#@zapzyio)
8:07 PM • Sep 10, 2025
Meanwhile, Klarna hit the NYSE at a $15 billion valuation, trying to convince investors it’s more than a buy‑now‑pay‑later app. The Swedish fintech is pitching itself as a digital bank, offering savings accounts, insurance, and even $40 mobile phone plans. But it still trails rival Affirm, which is growing faster and handles bigger‑ticket purchases.
Can these companies successfully expand beyond their original hit products? I don’t know, but I’ll be watching Gemini’s IPO today to see if the next crypto exchange debut goes more like Coinbase’s or Bullish’s.
🤖 All Eyes on AI
AI’s impact on the workforce remained limited last quarter but not negligible, with economists pointing to economic uncertainty as the bigger drag on jobs.
Albania’s government is using an AI bot to award government contracts to private businesses. No, for real. That’s happening now.
Consulting firm Synechron hit $1 billion in revenue and celebrated by granting every one of its 16,000 employees $1,000 in stock.
AI’s high‑flying stocks showed cracks as Nvidia posted its slowest growth in two years and Palantir traded at 245x forward earnings.
California moved closer to passing a bill regulating AI companion chatbots, requiring companies to disclose when users are interacting with AI.
California advanced a bill to regulate AI companion chatbots, mandating disclosure when users interact with AI.
😆 Meme of the Week
“Are you following Generally Accepted Accounting Principles”
Anthropic:
— #High Yield Harry (#@HighyieldHarry)
12:04 PM • Aug 26, 2025
🎙️ Oracle’s Moonshot and Milk’s Meme Revival
This episode of The Best One Yet runs through Wall Street whiplash, a preppy tech pivot, and the return of the most famous upper lip in advertising.
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See how Oracle’s eye-popping contracts with AI giants set off a 40 percent stock surge and put Larry Ellison at the top of the rich list
Meet “Ask Ralph,” the chatbot behind Ralph Lauren’s breakout year and the Nepopreneur driving decades of early tech bets
Revisit “Got Milk” at 30 as real milk rebounds and the mustache format proves why simple, repeatable ideas behave like memes
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