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TECH Intelligence
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Companies · Top 5
Where attention + capital concentrate first.
Editorial ranking · updated Sep 24 · methodology
Products · Top 5
The tools end-users actually open daily.
Editorial ranking · updated Sep 24 · methodology
IPO coverage
Recent IPO reporting.
Firmus kicks off a A$7 billion IPO: OpenAI anchors Australia's biggest float since TelstraIPO watch · published 16 days agoAnthropic expects a second profitable quarter as its IPO nears, FT reportsIPO watch · published 16 days agoNvidia in talks to anchor Anthropic IPO at $2 trillion valuation: ReutersIPO watch · published 18 days ago
TECHi Economy Pulse
Wed, Sep 30, 2026Live
Market sentiment organized into macro pulse, AI infrastructure, and market activity in one daily panel.
11:07 PM UTC
AI Fear & GreedMARKET SENTIMENT
Neutral
A composite of price, news, activity and editorial assumptions; it does not measure dollars entering or leaving AI investments and has no established predictive track record.
44Index
Macro Pulse
S&P 500
7,651.54
-0.25% on the session
Yahoo Finance · delayed
Nasdaq
26,861.06
+0.24% on the session
Yahoo Finance · delayed
VIX
16.34
+1.87% on the session
Yahoo Finance · delayed
AI Infrastructure
TECHi AI Adoption Index
38/100
Proprietary weekly scenario model; this is an editorial adoption baseline, not a market statistic.
TECHi methodology
Market Activity
NVDA
NVIDIA
AI accelerator demand
Quote-page demand
AAPL
Apple
Device AI upgrade cycle
Quote-page demand
MSFT
Microsoft
Cloud + Copilot revenue
Quote-page demand
Current Top-Weighted Drivers
Current score influence, not attribution for a historical move.
Market
23/100
Average session change -0.30%. 34 of 134 stored prints are constructive and 59 are defensive, out of 135 covered AI companies. Momentum is 50 plus the session change in percent times 10. The technical score is 70% momentum and 30% of the price position inside the stored day range.
Methodology inputCompute
31/100
Compute
Methodology inputMacro
32/100
Macro
Methodology inputScore History Sparkline
Latest recorded score
44
138 recorded readings, 2026-09-24T13:07:04.604Z to 2026-09-30T22:07:03.806Z. This endpoint can differ from the current calculation.
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