Wall Street is about to have the worst Monday morning in years, and everyone on trading desks already knows it. The joint U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran, launched Saturday and still ongoing, has done what months of tariff drama, the Venezuela incursion, and an increasingly […]
Netflix formally declined to match Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing the path for Trump ally David Ellison to potentially control CNN, HBO, CBS and half of Hollywood’s studio output.
Nvidia posted $68.13 billion in Q4 revenue, crushed every estimate, guided Q1 to $78 billion, and still saw shares sink 5%. The AI chip king’s problem isn’t performance. It’s that the market now demands proof the entire AI trade survives the decade.
PayPal shares surged nearly 7% after Bloomberg reported Stripe is considering acquiring all or parts of the payments giant. The potential deal would be the largest fintech acquisition in history, combining Stripe’s $159 billion infrastructure empire with PayPal’s 434 million active accounts.
Advanced Micro Devices just got the kind of validation that money can’t buy. Except in this case, it literally did buy it, to the tune of what the Wall Street Journal estimates at more than $100 billion. AMD shares surged as much as 14% in
The Supreme Court just blew a hole through the centerpiece of Donald Trump’s economic agenda, and markets are already celebrating. In a 6-3 ruling delivered Friday morning, the justices declared that Trump exceeded his authority when he used a 1977 national emergency law to slap
The U.S. economy grew at a 4.3% clip in the third quarter of 2025. The stock market has been hitting records. Unemployment, by historical standards, remains low. And nearly 60% of Americans believe the country is currently in a recession. They’re wrong about the technical
Sam Altman just pulled off what might be the most strategically brilliant talent grab of 2026. OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer behind OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent framework that went from zero to cultural phenomenon in roughly two months, triggered a Mac
Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are rapidly stealing market share from DraftKings and FanDuel, capturing $630 million in Super Bowl bets and driving gambling stocks to multi-year lows as Wall Street reckons with a structural shift in sports wagering.
Robinhood missed Q4 revenue expectations by $70 million as crypto trading volumes cratered 52%. The stock dropped 8% after hours. Wall Street’s response? Keep buying.
Amazon’s $8 billion investment in Anthropic has evolved from a perceived desperation play into a strategic jackpot, with AWS posting its fastest growth in 13 quarters and Anthropic closing a $20 billion funding round at a $350 billion valuation.
Oracle jumped roughly 9% on Monday after D.A. Davidson upgraded the stock to Buy, giving battered Big Tech investors something they haven’t had in over a week: a reason to click the buy button. Microsoft added about 3%, Nvidia gained more than 2%, and Meta
Novo Nordisk just made it very clear: the era of cheap semaglutide knockoffs is over, and it’s willing to sue its way to that outcome. The Danish pharmaceutical giant filed a lawsuit Monday against telehealth darling Hims & Hers Health, alleging the company infringed on
General Motors, Toyota, and Volkswagen. That’s it. That’s the complete list of automakers willing to write checks up to $10 million for 30 seconds of Super Bowl airtime in 2026. Compare that to the heyday of automotive advertising during the Big Game, when five or
Rivian has a simple pitch for 2026: buy the cheaper truck, save the company. The R2, a compact five-seat SUV starting at $45,000, is scheduled to reach reservation holders by June. It is, without exaggeration, the single most consequential vehicle launch in the EV industry
Discord filed for IPO targeting March debut after rejecting Microsoft’s $12B offer in 2021. Now secondary markets value it at $6.8B-$10B. The platform’s 200M users and $725M revenue face Wall Street’s profitability demands.
Over $1 trillion wiped from Big Tech stocks as Anthropic’s new AI tools spark fears about the future of enterprise software and the sustainability of massive AI infrastructure spending.
The “digital gold” narrative just ran headfirst into reality. Bitcoin plunged below $67,000 to $60,000 before recovering to 66k on Thursday, touching its lowest level since October 2024, as a brutal week of selling erased nearly half of the gains from Donald Trump’s election victory
Elon Musk combines SpaceX and xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal that dwarfs every merger in corporate history, setting up what could be the largest American IPO ever.
The headline sounds like a punchline: top engineers at Anthropic and OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code. But they are not joking, and they are not alone. Boris Cherny, who runs Anthropic’s Claude Code product, says he has not written code by