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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The Pentagon Wants to Lend $5 Billion to an AI Cloud Startup. None of It Would Build a Data Center.

The Office of Strategic Capital would make its largest ever loan to Fluidstack, funding data center components rather…

6h ago

Advertising & Marketing

OpenAI Closed Its Ad Platform to the Exact Product Categories It Just Entered

OpenAI barred rival image and voice tools from advertising in ChatGPT and pulled outbound links on image queries,…

7h ago

Markets

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Energy

Diesel Set an All-Time US Record While Crude Trades $28 Below Its 2022 Peak

Brent crude settled at $101.21 a barrel on Wednesday, up 3.4% on the day…

By Scott Allan · 4d ago

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Markets

When Memory Makers Started Taking Collateral, the Shortage Stopped Being a Cycle

Every story about the memory crunch this year has been filed as a market…

By Scott Allan · 6d ago

Analysis

Amgen Fell 5% on a Trial It Did Not Run. Nobody Yet Knows if the Target Failed or the Dose Did.

Novartis shed close to 4% in Zurich on Monday after pelacarsen, its lipoprotein(a) lowering…

By Scott Allan · Sep 7

Snowflake’s 23% Pop Bought Faster Growth, Not Better Growth

Snowflake shares jumped roughly 23% after hours on Wednesday, to about $374 and through…

By Scott Allan · Sep 3

Artificial Intelligence

The race to build — and regulate — intelligent machines

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Washington Told AI Companies to Quietly Degrade Suspect Accounts. The Advisory Never Once Says Theft.

Most of the coverage of Monday’s joint advisory from the NSA, CISA and the FBI stopped at the accusation, which Engadget summarised as industrial-scale campaigns to…

By Scott Allan · 4d ago

Technology

Product, platform, and the shape of the Internet

Business

Apple’s Price Increase Tracks the Memory Shortage, Not the Foldable

The headline out of Apple Park on Wednesday was a folding phone. The number…

By Scott Allan · 4d ago

AI Policy

Europe Regulated ChatGPT as a Search Engine, Not as an AI Model

The European Commission brought ChatGPT under the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act…

By Scott Allan · Sep 2

Enterprise Technology

Apple Put Its First 2nm Chip in an $899 Desktop. The iPhone Has to Wait.

Most of the coverage of Apple’s surprise Mac refresh has treated it as a…

By Scott Allan · Sep 1

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Why Tech’s 127,180 Job Cuts in 2026 Are Funding a $690 Billion Compute Bill

With four months still to run, 2026 has already been a worse year for…

By Scott Allan · Aug 26

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…

By Scott Allan · Aug 25

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Electric Vehicles

Nevada Raised Tesla’s Robotaxi Cap From 10 to 5,000 in Five Weeks

In July, Nevada regulators capped Tesla at exactly ten paid robotaxis in Las Vegas…

By Scott Allan · Aug 24

Business

Deals, earnings, and corporate strategy

Analysis

Oracle’s $638 Billion Backlog Is a Funding Structure, Not a Sales Pipeline

Oracle reports first-quarter fiscal 2027 results on Thursday, and nearly every preview written this week leads with the same number: $638 billion in remaining performance obligations,…

By Scott Allan · 6d ago

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Most of Salesforce’s Record Earnings Beat Was an Unrealized Gain on Anthropic

Salesforce closed up 22.6% on Thursday, the second-best trading day in the company’s history behind only August 2020. The number that did it was an adjusted…

Scott Allan Opinion

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

Scott Allan Opinion

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

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
Jul 1
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Crypto Saylor Blinks: Strategy Sells Bitcoin for the First Time Since 2022 as BTC Cracks $68,000
Jun 2
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Analysis Bitcoin Drops Below $73K as Stocks Hit Records: Why Crypto Is Diverging
May 29

Policy

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Legal & Regulatory

Canada’s C$27.6 Billion Retaliation Is Pegged to a 1930 Statute No Court Has Ever Tested

Canada’s counter-tariffs on more than 700 American products took effect Tuesday, and almost every account of them has quoted two different numbers…

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Business KKR’s Record Antitrust Penalty Will Be Paid by Its Law Firms, Not by KKR
Aug 28
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Business The FTC Made Redfin Get Back Into a Business Zillow Paid It $100 Million to Leave
Aug 26
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Economy Druckenmiller Says Bessent Will Lose the Bond Fight as Treasury Eyes a $950 Billion Cash Pile
Aug 25

Cloud & Infrastructure

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Cloud & Infrastructure

Dell Guided Its AI Server Line Lower This Quarter Because It Cannot Buy Enough Memory

Every preview of Dell Technologies’ fiscal second quarter, which the company reports after the…

By Scott Allan · Sep 1

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

Nvidia said on Monday it will guarantee up to $105 billion in financing for…

By Scott Allan · Aug 19

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 · Aug 18

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 · 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

Economy

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Economy

The Fed’s Two Inflation Gauges Disagree by 80 Basis Points. Warsh Is Hiking on the Higher One.

Futures markets now put the odds of a quarter-point Federal Reserve hike this month at 66%, and almost every explanation you will…

Sep 2

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Economy The AI Buildout Borrowed $225 Billion at Low Rates. Warsh Just Signaled the Bill Is Repricing.
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Economy US Canada Trade Talks Collapse as 50% Tariffs Hit $20 Billion in Goods
Aug 24
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Business Morgan Stanley’s $1.3 Billion Dallas Tower Puts a Number on New York’s Tax Fight
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When Amazon’s Ad Auction Quietly Became a First-Price Auction, 1.2 Million Advertisers Were Not Told

Sep 2

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Energy

While Washington Struck Hormuz, the IEA Was Cutting Oil Demand by 1.6 Million Barrels a Day

Aug 31

After Turning Down Nvidia at $7 Billion, Hugging Face Is Selling to Nvidia for $12.9 Billion

Aug 28

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Business

Dick’s Sporting Goods Just Had Its Worst Day Ever. The $2.4 Billion Foot Locker Bet Is Why

Aug 26

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

Aug 25

Anthropic’s $2 Trillion IPO Target Came From Its Investors, Not From Anthropic

Aug 24

IPO

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

Aug 21

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

Aug 21

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Legal & Regulatory

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

Aug 20

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

Aug 20

Business

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

Aug 20

AI Policy

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

Aug 19

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

The Pentagon Wants to Lend $5 Billion to an AI Cloud Startup. None of It Would Build a Data Center.

OpenAI Closed Its Ad Platform to the Exact Product Categories It Just Entered

Diesel Set an All-Time US Record While Crude Trades $28 Below Its 2022 Peak

When Memory Makers Started Taking Collateral, the Shortage Stopped Being a Cycle

Amgen Fell 5% on a Trial It Did Not Run. Nobody Yet Knows if the Target Failed or the Dose Did.

Snowflake’s 23% Pop Bought Faster Growth, Not Better Growth

Washington Told AI Companies to Quietly Degrade Suspect Accounts. The Advisory Never Once Says Theft.

Jane Street, a Trading Firm With No AI Product, Now Holds $19 Billion in GPU Contracts

When OpenAI Hit Its Own Critical Cyber Threshold, the Framework Logged It Rather Than Stopping It

Broadcom Guided AI Revenue to $230 Billion. Wall Street Read the Software Line Instead.

Apple’s Price Increase Tracks the Memory Shortage, Not the Foldable

Europe Regulated ChatGPT as a Search Engine, Not as an AI Model

Apple Put Its First 2nm Chip in an $899 Desktop. The iPhone Has to Wait.

Why Tech’s 127,180 Job Cuts in 2026 Are Funding a $690 Billion Compute Bill

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

Nevada Raised Tesla’s Robotaxi Cap From 10 to 5,000 in Five Weeks

Oracle’s $638 Billion Backlog Is a Funding Structure, Not a Sales Pipeline

Uber Cut 3,300 Jobs to Bankroll an Autonomous Future It Does Not Build

Old Navy’s Incoming CEO Ran Its Marketing Through the Quarter Gap Just Blamed on Marketing

Brazil’s Weight-Loss Black Market Runs Exactly Along Eli Lilly’s Patent Line

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Most of Salesforce’s Record Earnings Beat Was an Unrealized Gain on Anthropic

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

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

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

Canada’s C$27.6 Billion Retaliation Is Pegged to a 1930 Statute No Court Has Ever Tested

Dell Guided Its AI Server Line Lower This Quarter Because It Cannot Buy Enough Memory

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

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

The Fed’s Two Inflation Gauges Disagree by 80 Basis Points. Warsh Is Hiking on the Higher One.

When Amazon’s Ad Auction Quietly Became a First-Price Auction, 1.2 Million Advertisers Were Not Told

While Washington Struck Hormuz, the IEA Was Cutting Oil Demand by 1.6 Million Barrels a Day

After Turning Down Nvidia at $7 Billion, Hugging Face Is Selling to Nvidia for $12.9 Billion

Dick’s Sporting Goods Just Had Its Worst Day Ever. The $2.4 Billion Foot Locker Bet Is Why

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

Anthropic’s $2 Trillion IPO Target Came From Its Investors, Not From Anthropic

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

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

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

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