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

XPeng Raised $900 Million for Its Robot Unit at a $6.3 Billion Valuation Before Selling a Single IRON

XPeng’s robotics business has never shipped a product to a paying customer, and investors just handed it more…

17h ago

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Nvidia Is Raising AI Server Prices More Than 15%, and the Memory Makers Are the Reason

For three years Nvidia has been the company that sets the price of artificial intelligence. This week it…

17h ago

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Morgan Stanley’s $1.3 Billion Dallas Tower Puts a Number on New York’s Tax Fight

The New York Post reported on Thursday that Morgan Stanley has settled on Dallas…

By Scott Allan · 4d ago

IPO

Unitree Opened 629% Above Its IPO Price and Briefly Passed Baidu in Value

Unitree Robotics opened at 1,100 yuan in Shanghai on Wednesday against an offer price…

By Scott Allan · 4d ago

Google Handed Marvell a $12.2 Billion Warrant and Broadcom Lost $87 Billion in a Day

Marvell Technology stock popped about 10% on Wednesday after Alphabet’s Google secured the right…

By Scott Allan · 4d ago

Business

Walmart Raised Guidance on a $2.9 Billion Refund It Has Not Received Yet

Walmart beat on revenue, beat on earnings, raised its full-year outlook, and watched its…

By Scott Allan · 5d ago

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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 under the seat. The airline is gone. Its…

By Scott Allan · 5d ago

Technology

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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…

By Scott Allan · 5d ago

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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 · Aug 14

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 · Aug 14

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

Business

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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. The retailer posted second-quarter sales of $47.9 billion, up 5.7% from a…

By Scott Allan · Aug 18

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The 30-Year Treasury Hit a 19-Year High. Korea’s Chip Stocks Paid for It.

The yield on the 30-year US Treasury bond pushed past 5.33% on Tuesday, its highest level since 2007, and by Wednesday morning in Asia the invoice…

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

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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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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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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 both now operate as federally regulated venues in…

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AI Brussels Wrote AI Rules a Year Ago and Only Just Got the Power to Enforce Them
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Economy Payrolls Fell 23,000 and the Rates Market Repriced a Fed That Refuses to Guide It
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Business Washington Will Pay RWE $1.22 Billion Not to Build 7 Gigawatts of Offshore Wind
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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 · Aug 14

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

Cisco reports fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2026 results after the close today, with the…

By Scott Allan · Aug 12

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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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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

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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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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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OpenAI Shipped a Teen Version of ChatGPT Because the Lawsuits Got There First

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Energy

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

Aug 18

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

Aug 12

Analysis

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

Aug 11

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

Aug 11

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

Aug 11

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

Aug 10

Advertising & Marketing

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

Aug 7

Business

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

Aug 6

Sam Altman Says AI Should Pace Itself, Weeks After His Models Broke Out Of Their Cage

Aug 5

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

Aug 5

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

Jul 29

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

XPeng Raised $900 Million for Its Robot Unit at a $6.3 Billion Valuation Before Selling a Single IRON

Nvidia Is Raising AI Server Prices More Than 15%, and the Memory Makers Are the Reason

Morgan Stanley’s $1.3 Billion Dallas Tower Puts a Number on New York’s Tax Fight

Unitree Opened 629% Above Its IPO Price and Briefly Passed Baidu in Value

Google Handed Marvell a $12.2 Billion Warrant and Broadcom Lost $87 Billion in a Day

Walmart Raised Guidance on a $2.9 Billion Refund It Has Not Received Yet

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

Nvidia Will Backstop $105 Billion So OpenAI Can Rent the Chips Nvidia Sells It

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The 30-Year Treasury Hit a 19-Year High. Korea’s Chip Stocks Paid for It.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OpenAI Shipped a Teen Version of ChatGPT Because the Lawsuits Got There First

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sam Altman Says AI Should Pace Itself, Weeks After His Models Broke Out Of Their Cage

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