Chipotle Falls 9% On An Outbreak It Has Not Been Linked To Yet

Chipotle pulled jalapeños from restaurants in Minnesota this week after state health officials flagged a possible connection to a salmonella outbreak. The stock fell close to…

By Scott Allan · Aug 5 · 3 min read

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Legal & Regulatory

Meta’s Own Retention Study Is the States’ Best Evidence in a $1.4 Trillion Trial

The most damaging document in the case that opened against Meta this week in Oakland is not a…

7h ago

Spirit Airlines’ Email Archive Sold to Google for $10 Million in Bankruptcy Court

Spirit Airlines spent two decades teaching Americans that a plane ticket could cost less than the bag going…

7h ago

Markets

Stocks, indices, and the macro tape

Baidu’s GPU Cloud Grew 283% and Revenue Still Fell 4%, Which Is the Whole Problem

Baidu reported second-quarter revenue of RMB 31.3 billion on Tuesday, down 4% from a…

By Scott Allan · 2d ago

Business

Home Depot Beat on $47.9 Billion and Still Refused to Raise Guidance, One Day Before 50% Canadian Tariffs Land

Home Depot cleared the bar on Tuesday morning and then declined to move it.…

By Scott Allan · 2d ago

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Energy

Oil Pushes Past $90 as Trump Lets the Iran Ceasefire Lapse and Hormuz Stays Shut

The 60-day US-Iran ceasefire expired on Monday with nothing to replace it, and the…

By Scott Allan · 2d ago

Legal & Regulatory

Prediction Markets Got Federal Legitimacy Before They Got an Insider Trading Rule

Kalshi and Polymarket cleared roughly $44.8 billion in combined trading volume in June, and…

By Scott Allan · 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence

The race to build — and regulate — intelligent machines

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Stripe’s $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Buys the Meter, Not the Model

Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, with TechCrunch matching the report hours later on Sunday and…

By Scott Allan · 3d ago

Technology

Product, platform, and the shape of the Internet

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Policy

Flock Safety Cut Data Retention to Seven Days Because City Councils Kept Voting No

Flock Safety announced on Thursday that it will shorten default storage of license plate…

By Scott Allan · 6d ago

Markets

Reddit Joins the S&P 500 on August 18 With Its Front Door Under Google’s Control

Reddit will enter the S&P 500 before the opening bell on Tuesday, and the…

By Scott Allan · 6d ago

Markets

Intel Gained 12.7% in a Week on a Customer List Nobody Will Confirm

Intel closed Friday at $101.65, up $11.45 on the week, a 12.7% run that…

By Scott Allan · Aug 10

Anthropic Is Hiring Chip Designers at $485,000 to Stop Renting Its Margin From Nvidia

Anthropic confirmed this week that it is standing up an in-house custom silicon team…

By Scott Allan · Aug 7

Shopify Jumped 25% on AI Orders It Spent Nothing to Build

Shopify reported second-quarter revenue of $3.58 billion on Wednesday, up 34% from a year…

By Scott Allan · Aug 6

Anthropic Priced Claude Opus 5 to Cannibalize Its Own Flagship

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at the same $5 and $25 token price as…

By Scott Allan · Jul 24

Business

Deals, earnings, and corporate strategy

Analysis

Berkshire Put $17 Billion into Alphabet, and $10 Billion Never Touched the Market

Berkshire Hathaway added more than $17 billion of Alphabet in the second quarter, and CNBC reported that the position is now the conglomerate’s third-largest holding at…

By Scott Allan · 3d ago

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On Holding Posted a Record 65.4% Gross Margin and Had the Worst Day in Its History

On Holding did almost everything the market says it wants. The Swiss running brand grew constant-currency net sales 21.6%, expanded gross margin by 390 basis points…

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Intel Raised $20 Billion at $95 a Share for Factories Most of Its Customers Have Not Signed For

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Cathie Wood Sold $37.5 Million of Deere to Fund Nvidia and Broadcom Buys

Crypto

Digital assets, tokenization, and the on-chain economy

Crypto

Trump’s $1.4 Billion Crypto Disclosure Reveals the Business Model Behind His Deregulation Agenda

President Trump earned at least $1.4 billion from crypto ventures in 2025, his first year back in office, while simultaneously dismantling the…

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Crypto Bitcoin ETFs Post Worst Month on Record With $4.5 Billion in June Outflows as Institutional Investors Retreat
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Crypto Saylor Blinks: Strategy Sells Bitcoin for the First Time Since 2022 as BTC Cracks $68,000
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Analysis Bitcoin Drops Below $73K as Stocks Hit Records: Why Crypto Is Diverging
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Policy

Regulation, geopolitics, and capital in Washington

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Brussels Wrote AI Rules a Year Ago and Only Just Got the Power to Enforce Them

For twelve months, the European Union had binding obligations on general-purpose AI models and no legal ability to make anyone follow them.…

Aug 10

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Economy Payrolls Fell 23,000 and the Rates Market Repriced a Fed That Refuses to Guide It
Aug 7
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Business Washington Will Pay RWE $1.22 Billion Not to Build 7 Gigawatts of Offshore Wind
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AI Sam Altman Says AI Should Pace Itself, Weeks After His Models Broke Out Of Their Cage
Aug 5

Cloud & Infrastructure

Data centers, chips, and the plumbing of AI

Cloud & Infrastructure

CoreWeave’s $104 Billion Backlog Is Also the Collateral for Its Debt

CoreWeave beat on nearly every line that Wall Street models and the stock jumped…

By Scott Allan · 6d ago

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ByteDance Is Spending $39 Billion on Its Biggest Data Center Outside China, and Brazil Won the Bid

TikTok’s parent company just made the largest single infrastructure bet in Latin American history,…

By Scott Allan · Jul 3

Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell Its Massive AI Computing Surplus

Mark Zuckerberg spent more than $60 billion building AI infrastructure nobody outside Meta could…

By Scott Allan · Jul 3

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Cloud & Infrastructure

Bloom Energy Stock Surges 20% as Brookfield Expands AI Data Center Power Deal to $25 Billion

Bloom Energy just landed the kind of deal that turns a fuel cell company…

By Scott Allan · Jul 2

Business

Amazon Commits $48 Billion to India by 2030 as Andy Jassy Makes His First Visit as CEO

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and announced…

By Scott Allan · Jun 25

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FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Fast-Track AI Data Center Connections or Justify Current Rules

The federal government just gave America’s largest power grid operators a 60-day ultimatum: prove…

By Scott Allan · Jun 21

Economy

Inflation, employment, and the real economy

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Economy

Brent Crossed Back Above $80 on the Day the Hormuz Deal Looked Closest

Brent crude settled 1.49% higher at $80.54 a barrel late Wednesday, hours after Houthi forces put ballistic missiles into a Saudi oil…

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Economy Q2 GDP Slowed to 1.5%, but Private Demand Jumped 3.9%: Why the Bond Market Isn’t Buying the Cooldown
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Economy Fed Rate Decision Today: Warsh’s Silence Is the Only Number That Moves
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Economy June Jobs Report: ADP Signals Cooling Labor Market Ahead of Today’s Payrolls Data
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Analysis

Coherent Fell 12% and Lumentum 7% as the AI Optics Policy Trade Unwound Into Earnings

Aug 11

Advertising & Marketing

Nvidia’s $250 Billion Backstop for OpenAI’s Ohio Campus Says the Debt Market Already Said No

Jul 27

Nvidia Rose 3.26% the Day Washington Accused Moonshot AI of Smuggling Its Chips

Jul 22

Markets

Anthropic Above, DeepSeek Below: OpenAI’s Squeeze Is Now a $1 Trillion IPO Problem

Jul 20

Meta Claims Its Next AI Model Has Caught OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, Signaling a Narrowing Frontier Gap

Jul 5

Enterprise AI

Microsoft Bets $2.5 Billion on Frontier Company to Solve Enterprise AI’s Biggest Problem

Jul 5

California Signs the Largest US State Government AI Deal With Anthropic, Giving Every Agency Access to Claude

Jul 4

Chipotle Falls 9% On An Outbreak It Has Not Been Linked To Yet

Meta’s Own Retention Study Is the States’ Best Evidence in a $1.4 Trillion Trial

Spirit Airlines’ Email Archive Sold to Google for $10 Million in Bankruptcy Court

Baidu’s GPU Cloud Grew 283% and Revenue Still Fell 4%, Which Is the Whole Problem

Home Depot Beat on $47.9 Billion and Still Refused to Raise Guidance, One Day Before 50% Canadian Tariffs Land

Oil Pushes Past $90 as Trump Lets the Iran Ceasefire Lapse and Hormuz Stays Shut

Prediction Markets Got Federal Legitimacy Before They Got an Insider Trading Rule

Stripe’s $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Buys the Meter, Not the Model

Cisco Needs $3.7 Billion of AI Orders Tonight to Make Its $9 Billion Year Work

Nvidia Just Made Its GPUs Collateral, and Six Wall Street Firms Signed On for $500 Billion

Zuckerberg’s 6,500-Word AI Manifesto Is a Pricing Attack on OpenAI and Anthropic

Flock Safety Cut Data Retention to Seven Days Because City Councils Kept Voting No

Reddit Joins the S&P 500 on August 18 With Its Front Door Under Google’s Control

Intel Gained 12.7% in a Week on a Customer List Nobody Will Confirm

Anthropic Is Hiring Chip Designers at $485,000 to Stop Renting Its Margin From Nvidia

Shopify Jumped 25% on AI Orders It Spent Nothing to Build

Anthropic Priced Claude Opus 5 to Cannibalize Its Own Flagship

Berkshire Put $17 Billion into Alphabet, and $10 Billion Never Touched the Market

Nelson Peltz Wants Wendy’s Private After 18 Years, a Withdrawn Outlook and a Halved Dividend

Blackstone Is Paying a 96% Premium for MarineMax Because It Is Not Buying a Boat Dealer

GameStop Told Its Own Noteholders They May Short the Stock That Prices Their Payout

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The Tape

On Holding Posted a Record 65.4% Gross Margin and Had the Worst Day in Its History

Intel Raised $20 Billion at $95 a Share for Factories Most of Its Customers Have Not Signed For

Cathie Wood Sold $37.5 Million of Deere to Fund Nvidia and Broadcom Buys

Trump’s $1.4 Billion Crypto Disclosure Reveals the Business Model Behind His Deregulation Agenda

Brussels Wrote AI Rules a Year Ago and Only Just Got the Power to Enforce Them

CoreWeave’s $104 Billion Backlog Is Also the Collateral for Its Debt

ByteDance Is Spending $39 Billion on Its Biggest Data Center Outside China, and Brazil Won the Bid

Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell Its Massive AI Computing Surplus

Bloom Energy Stock Surges 20% as Brookfield Expands AI Data Center Power Deal to $25 Billion

Amazon Commits $48 Billion to India by 2030 as Andy Jassy Makes His First Visit as CEO

FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Fast-Track AI Data Center Connections or Justify Current Rules

Brent Crossed Back Above $80 on the Day the Hormuz Deal Looked Closest

Coherent Fell 12% and Lumentum 7% as the AI Optics Policy Trade Unwound Into Earnings

The Trade Desk Guides to a 12% Revenue Decline and Loses a Fifth of Its Value

911.5 Million SpaceX Shares Unlock Today, and Musk Is Not the One Selling

Nvidia Jumps 3.8% as Cloud Giants Line Up $886 Billion in AI Capex

Microsoft and Meta Report Tonight, and the Beat Is Already Irrelevant

The Chip Rout Is Deepening and Retail Is Googling 3x Leveraged ETFs

Nvidia’s $250 Billion Backstop for OpenAI’s Ohio Campus Says the Debt Market Already Said No

Nvidia Rose 3.26% the Day Washington Accused Moonshot AI of Smuggling Its Chips

Anthropic Above, DeepSeek Below: OpenAI’s Squeeze Is Now a $1 Trillion IPO Problem

Meta Claims Its Next AI Model Has Caught OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, Signaling a Narrowing Frontier Gap

Microsoft Bets $2.5 Billion on Frontier Company to Solve Enterprise AI’s Biggest Problem

California Signs the Largest US State Government AI Deal With Anthropic, Giving Every Agency Access to Claude