Daily Earnings: Shadow financing hardware & the software bust (AVGO, AI) | Jun 3

Today’s earnings window illustrates how the physical reality of the AI buildout is breaking standard IT budgets while pure application vendors face an absolute demand collapse.- Broadcom (AVGO) stood up a $35 billion private-credit platform to finance overwhelming physical data center costs.- C3.ai (AI) abandoned its consumption pricing, fired human staff, and ironically deployed external bots to survive.- CrowdStrike (CRWD) generated $90 million in operating income simply by extending sales commission amortization timelines.As the physical hardware space increasingly requires high-yield private infrastructure financing, the software sector is masking margin pressure and hiding reporting backlogs to endure the gap.