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DoorDash Instacart acquisition: will DashPass, Instacart+ merge?
The $17 billion deal promises one membership instead of two, but nothing changes until late 2027 at the earliest. Here's what to keep, cancel or watch.
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China AI bubble bursts: $480 billion gone, can US tech hold up?
China's index of AI and chip stocks is down 40% from its July high. With Big Tech earnings this week, investors want to know if US AI stocks are next.
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Microsoft buyout: why it wants 60,000 staff to think about leaving
Staff in the US, UK, Canada and India have until early December to decide. Here is what is on the table and why Microsoft is doing it now.
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Anthropic S-1 shows $16.3B in sales, an $80.7B loss and big bets
The Claude maker plans to list on Nasdaq as ANT. Its filing shows explosive growth, huge losses, and minimum compute bills estimated at $808 billion.
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AI layoffs: Airbnb and Palantir CEOs say who keeps their job
Brian Chesky says pure people managers are most at risk. Alex Karp says your best bets are a trade or a brain that works differently. Here is what holds up.
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Nvidia software fee plan: why Huang’s number doesn’t add up
Jensen Huang put a yearly price on the software that runs AI agents on Nvidia chips. It is less than Nvidia charges today, and that is the puzzle.
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Barclays AI job cuts: 5,000 roles go, and coders are on the list
The UK bank says AI is making staff more productive, so it needs fewer of them, even as quarterly profit climbs 12% to £2.3 billion.
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Meta stock is splitting in two: why your new shares won’t vote
Meta will hand every shareholder a free non-voting share in January 2027 to fund its AI spending, after a record quarter dented by a $9.89 billion teen safety charge.
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SpaceX earnings: renting AI computers now outearns Starlink
SpaceX's latest quarter as a public company was powered less by rockets than by data centers, while Starlink grew by chasing cheaper plans abroad.
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SpaceX Tesla merger: the vote that could still stop Musk
Both boards have set up independent committees to study a deal worth trillions, and SpaceX stock jumped. One Tesla rule makes it far from certain.
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Salesforce buys Braze for $5.66B: the firm behind your app alerts
Braze powers the personalized pushes and emails from apps like Venmo, Instacart and Canva. Salesforce is paying a 58% premium to own that moment of contact.
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Eric Schmidt’s Anthropic stake: a 2021 check now worth up to $20B
Google's former CEO reportedly owns about 1% of the Claude maker. With an IPO expected within weeks, here's what that stake says about the AI money boom.