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Q2 GDP Slowed to 1.5%, but Private Demand Jumped 3.9%: Why the Bond Market Isn’t Buying the Cooldown

The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday that real GDP grew at a 1.5% annual rate in the second quarter, down from 2.1% in the first,…

By Scott Allan · Jul 30 · 4 min read

Why Did Synopsys Jump 4.8% on Amazon and OpenAI Deals With One Disclosed Number?

Synopsys gained about $3.9 billion in value on a $1 billion-plus Amazon deal and an OpenAI partnership with…

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The FTC Opened a Probe Into OpenAI, Anthropic and METR. Anthropic’s Prospectus Saw It Coming.

The FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over AI agents. Anthropic's draft prospectus already flagged the legal…

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BlackRock and IFM Near a $25 Billion Deal for Stack’s Asia-Pacific Data Centers

A BlackRock-backed consortium is in exclusive talks for Stack's Asia-Pacific data centers at up…

By Scott Allan · 6d ago

Meta Rose 36% in September on Its Muse AI App. Can Muse Ever Cover $145 Billion in Capex?

Meta rose 36% in September on its Muse AI app. The most optimistic published…

By Scott Allan · 6d ago

Markets

IonQ’s Quantum Error Decoder Ran on Simulated Noise, Not on Its Own Qubits

IonQ opened 11.9% higher on a real-time quantum error decoder. The error data came…

By Scott Allan · Sep 24

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Economy

The Treasury Sold $70 Billion of Five-Year Notes at 5.033%. Primary Dealers Were Left Holding $11 Billion of Them.

Wednesday's bond selloff was reported as a growth story. The five-year auction record says…

By Scott Allan · Sep 24

Artificial Intelligence

The race to build — and regulate — intelligent machines

When Microsoft Cut Copilot Prices by up to 50%, It Attached a Usage Meter to the Deal

Microsoft will authorize 30% to 50% Copilot discounts from October, but only for customers who also accept usage-based fees. The breakeven is about 1,500 credits per seat per…

By Scott Allan · Sep 24

Technology

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Musk Quietly Dropped Apple From His Antitrust Case, and OpenAI Went to Court to Find Out Why

X Corp and SpaceXAI dropped Apple from their antitrust suit with prejudice and disclosed…

By Scott Allan · Sep 17

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 · Sep 10

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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 · Sep 8

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

Business

Deals, earnings, and corporate strategy

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A 14-Day Order Put CNN, MS NOW and Politico Back Inside the White House

A judge restored White House press passes for CNN, MS NOW and Politico for 14 days. The precedent they won on guarantees process, not access.

By Scott Allan · 6d ago

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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,…

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

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

Crypto

Digital assets, tokenization, and the on-chain economy

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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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Analysis Bitcoin Drops Below $73K as Stocks Hit Records: Why Crypto Is Diverging
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Nearly Half of America’s In-Licensed Drugs Now Start in China, a Dependency Treasury Just Decided Not to Break

Treasury will allow most US pharma licensing deals with China, restricting only pathogen work. The reason is commercial: nearly half of US…

Sep 21

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Economy The Fed Hiked to 4% on a Dot Plot With 18 Dots, Not 19
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Legal & Regulatory Canada’s C$27.6 Billion Retaliation Is Pegged to a 1930 Statute No Court Has Ever Tested
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Business KKR’s Record Antitrust Penalty Will Be Paid by Its Law Firms, Not by KKR
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Cloud & Infrastructure

Data centers, chips, and the plumbing of AI

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To Break Nvidia’s Grip on AI Networking, Cornelis Raised $205 Million on a Figure It Modeled Itself

Cornelis raised $205 million to attack Nvidia's interconnect lock-in. The $1.68 billion waste figure…

By Scott Allan · Sep 16

Cloudflare’s New Crawler Rules Grade Microsoft on a Control That Ships in 2027

Cloudflare's Accountable designation decides which AI crawlers keep reading your site. Microsoft holds it…

By Scott Allan · Sep 16

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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…

By Scott Allan · Sep 14

Microsoft Plans to Triple Its Data Center Fleet by 2032, and the Number Came From Nobody at Microsoft

Microsoft's reported 38 gigawatt capacity target has been written up as an announcement. The…

By Scott Allan · Sep 11

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

Crusoe closed more than $3 billion at roughly a $30 billion valuation, nearly tripling…

By Scott Allan · Sep 7

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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Everyone Reported Mortgage Rates Approaching 7%. The Daily Trackers Already Have Them Above It.

Freddie Mac's weekly survey says 6.95 percent. Optimal Blue, Zillow and US News all printed above 7 percent on September 22. The…

Sep 23

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Economy Oil Fell 9% in Four Days Because Trump Said He Would Probably Take a Meeting Nobody Has Scheduled
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Economy Lennar’s Margin Fell 170 Basis Points in a Quarter Its Own Construction Costs Improved
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Economy The Fed’s Two Inflation Gauges Disagree by 80 Basis Points. Warsh Is Hiking on the Higher One.
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Energy

Greenland Energy Does Not Mine Anything. It Rose 150% on a Mining Trade.

Sep 21

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Business

Generac Gained $2 Billion in Market Value on an Order Worth $2.4 Billion Over Two Years

Sep 18

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Markets

J.B. Hunt Lost 13% on a Warning Blamed on Diesel. Its Own Split Puts $25 Million on Driver Pay.

Sep 17

Business

Oura’s Gross Margin Fell 13 Points in a Year. An $84.4 Million Battery Bill Explains Most of It.

Sep 16

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Energy

The Hormuz Escorts Moved Barrels, Not Insurance Premiums

Sep 15

Business

Michael Dell’s Family Office Is Buying an Insurance Brokerage at 20 Times EBITDA to Automate It

Sep 15

Cybersecurity Stocks Jumped 15% on a Call to Slow AI Down. Chip Stocks Fell on the Same Essay.

Sep 15

Advertising & Marketing

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

Sep 14

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Business

The Motor Oil Shortage Behind Costco’s Purchase Limit Started in Qatar, Not in Its Warehouses

Sep 14

Advertising & Marketing

LVMH Ended Nine Years With WPP Without Bothering to Hold a Pitch

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Legal & Regulatory

Groq, the Startup Nvidia Never Actually Bought, Is Now the First Real Test of the Acquihire Loophole

Sep 11

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

Sep 10

Q2 GDP Slowed to 1.5%, but Private Demand Jumped 3.9%: Why the Bond Market Isn’t Buying the Cooldown

Why Did Synopsys Jump 4.8% on Amazon and OpenAI Deals With One Disclosed Number?

The FTC Opened a Probe Into OpenAI, Anthropic and METR. Anthropic’s Prospectus Saw It Coming.

BlackRock and IFM Near a $25 Billion Deal for Stack’s Asia-Pacific Data Centers

Meta Rose 36% in September on Its Muse AI App. Can Muse Ever Cover $145 Billion in Capex?

IonQ’s Quantum Error Decoder Ran on Simulated Noise, Not on Its Own Qubits

The Treasury Sold $70 Billion of Five-Year Notes at 5.033%. Primary Dealers Were Left Holding $11 Billion of Them.

When Microsoft Cut Copilot Prices by up to 50%, It Attached a Usage Meter to the Deal

Meta Added Nearly $200 Billion on Download Counts the Week Amazon Blocked Muse and a Researcher Hijacked It

AMD Touched $1 Trillion for a Few Hours. The Number That Mattered Was Nvidia’s 0.4%.

Anthropic Pushed Its IPO to November Because a $2 Trillion Ask Needs One More Quarter of Revenue

Musk Quietly Dropped Apple From His Antitrust Case, and OpenAI Went to Court to Find Out Why

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

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

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

A 14-Day Order Put CNN, MS NOW and Politico Back Inside the White House

Paramount Settled 12 States for Film Quotas and $47.5 Million, a Fraction of the $49 Billion It Must Now Borrow

The $20 Billion Book for SoftBank’s Bond Is a Bet on Yield, Not on OpenAI

Danone Pulled SKU 136603 for the Second Time in Nine Months, a Recall the FDA Had Already Closed

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The Tape

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

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

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

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

Nearly Half of America’s In-Licensed Drugs Now Start in China, a Dependency Treasury Just Decided Not to Break

To Break Nvidia’s Grip on AI Networking, Cornelis Raised $205 Million on a Figure It Modeled Itself

Cloudflare’s New Crawler Rules Grade Microsoft on a Control That Ships in 2027

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

Microsoft Plans to Triple Its Data Center Fleet by 2032, and the Number Came From Nobody at Microsoft

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

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

Everyone Reported Mortgage Rates Approaching 7%. The Daily Trackers Already Have Them Above It.

Greenland Energy Does Not Mine Anything. It Rose 150% on a Mining Trade.

Generac Gained $2 Billion in Market Value on an Order Worth $2.4 Billion Over Two Years

J.B. Hunt Lost 13% on a Warning Blamed on Diesel. Its Own Split Puts $25 Million on Driver Pay.

Oura’s Gross Margin Fell 13 Points in a Year. An $84.4 Million Battery Bill Explains Most of It.

The Hormuz Escorts Moved Barrels, Not Insurance Premiums

Michael Dell’s Family Office Is Buying an Insurance Brokerage at 20 Times EBITDA to Automate It

Cybersecurity Stocks Jumped 15% on a Call to Slow AI Down. Chip Stocks Fell on the Same Essay.

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

The Motor Oil Shortage Behind Costco’s Purchase Limit Started in Qatar, Not in Its Warehouses

LVMH Ended Nine Years With WPP Without Bothering to Hold a Pitch

Groq, the Startup Nvidia Never Actually Bought, Is Now the First Real Test of the Acquihire Loophole

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