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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple scrapped the M6 Pro and M6 Max to accelerate M7. The redesigned laptop expected this fall would ship with M5 Pro and M5 Max instead.
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Executives privately hope to match or beat SpaceX's record $75bn IPO, according to Bloomberg's sources, while briefings led by the CFO decline to discuss valuation.
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Bloomberg reports senior and junior notes of up to $100 billion to fund Anthropic and others. The supplier would now carry financing risk on the buildouts that book its revenue.
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The Cambridge company says routing agentic work across Nvidia, AMD and Google chips doubles accuracy at a quarter of the cost. No customer has confirmed those numbers.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal want answers by September 1 on a control group of about 10% of users, including minors, that did not get an anti-rabbit-hole algorithm change.
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AppleInsider says an entire VR team is gone. Apple has not commented, but its money has been moving toward camera-and-Siri glasses for more than a year.
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Circana puts July US console hardware spending at $282 million, down 29 percent year over year. The mid-life price cut, the industry's oldest demand lever, is no longer on the table.
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Reported multi-million-dollar packages buy exclusivity windows against Netflix. The lever is not the cheque, it is access to marketing that never appears on an invoice.
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Eagle Point's $1.3bn mezzanine slice closes phase one of Nexus's Hubbard campus. Google guarantees the senior debt. Anthropic signs as tenant and owns none of it.
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Local opposition stalled at least 75 projects worth about $130bn in three months, according to Bloomberg. That belongs in the capacity plan, not the comms plan.
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A denial of a Bloomberg report on SpaceX buying Cognition leaves the compute relationship unaddressed, and leaves buyers choosing coding tools from a shrinking independent field.
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Bloomberg says SpaceX approached Cognition. Its CEO says no talks happened. Either way, the pattern is compute traded for developer data, and that reprices any single-vendor coding bet.
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The British inference startup is in talks at a $6.5bn pre-money valuation three months after a $1bn round, Bloomberg reports. The signal is the buyer, not the multiple.
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The larger 2030 tranche carries a coupon of no more than 0.5 percent, and Nebius is also swapping older convertibles for shares. The build-out is priced in dilution, not cash flow.
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A supervoting share class and a board-appointing trust would let seven founders with a modest combined stake keep the final word after a listing that could be among the largest ever.
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ByteDance and Tencent have each taken roughly 10,000 accelerators against licence caps of 75,000 and January orders near two million. The constraint is paperwork, not fabrication.
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Anthropic passed OpenAI on run rate, but the same quarter produced one thin operating profit and one loss about 1.8 times revenue. Those are the unit economics you are buying into.
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Steve Hanke says a "deadly cocktail" has pushed Treasury yields through the informal 4.5% and 5% markers Scott Bessent defends, and he expects another 50 basis points on the 10-year.
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The largest deal in ServiceNow's history cost about 4% of its market cap and bought it a story investors would pay for. Security buyers should read the consolidation signal.
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Pending home sales fell 2.3% in July to the second-lowest reading on record, and the West hit an outright record low. A fourth year at the bottom is not a cycle you wait out.
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A reported $500 million round at a pre-money floor of at least $12 billion reprices a two-decade systems bet. Teams already running workflows on it should treat this as a procurement event.
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Revenue fell for a fifth straight quarter because a 19 percent ad decline on a bigger base beats 25 percent AI growth on a smaller one. Capex tripled meanwhile.
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China's Ministry of State Security told state-linked entities to uninstall a customised Windows 10 ahead of schedule, Bloomberg reported. Microsoft says it is aware of no security incident.
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The gap is about 41 percent, the source is unnamed, and the company is preparing a share sale. Anyone signing a multi-year model contract should price the difference.
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Emeth Value Capital's H1 2026 letter describes memory makers out-earning their 18-month-old market caps and compounders derated pre-emptively. Then it shows how the derating happens.
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Malawi's 2016 drought policy failed not because the automation broke but because the crop model was fitted to a maize variety farmers had abandoned. The check that would have caught it ran after the season.
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A reported climb from about $9B to $65B of run rate in seven months is being priced off 2028 forecasts. Whoever lists first sets the multiple your existing AI marks get argued against.
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DGFiP says the intruder used a stolen employee identifier and an authorised third party's credentials, and claimed to bypass MFA. No zero-day was involved.
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A London AI chip startup raised $312 million at a $3.3 billion valuation, roughly triple where it sat in February. The founder's net worth is the part being marketed.
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The SEC killed its Regulation Crypto Assets meeting three days after calling it. Sources point to the White House, and to SIFMA weighing a challenge to the agency's authority.
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Alejandro Betancourt is helping the Trump administration pick assets and partners in Caracas. With no competitive bidding and majors staying out, the beneficiaries are small US operators.
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A Fast Company essay describes an agent's email answered by a chatbot draft. With 51% of AI users at work using it to write, default behavior will set the norm unless someone writes one down.
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Lingxi Games is profitable and is being sold anyway, to fund model training and data centres. Assume your competitors are financing AI capex the same way: by divesting, not by growing into it.
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The consumer fintech solicited end-to-end wallet proposals from blockchain vendors, as first reported by Bloomberg. No partner, no timeline and no named token yet.
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A reported 111% jump in Chinese chip exports has the bank pointing at power supply chains, PCBs, optical modules and humanoid robots rather than Hong Kong-listed tech.
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A telecom moving workloads off frontier vendors, a Big Four firm inventing "agent economics," and a widening youth employment gap all point at the same unglamorous work.
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The continuation fund buying Lightspeed's OpenAI stake will be managed by Lightspeed. Coller Capital's cheque is the only outside check on the transfer price.
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Revenue of more than $11.5bn and a positive adjusted operating income line replace annualized run-rate maths with something a buyer can actually check before signing a multi-year deal.
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With Siri AI shipped, the reported blocker on new Apple home hardware is gone. What follows is mostly silicon bumps inside existing shells, plus one new display category.
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The firm's new AI Value Realization Office will govern model selection, usage and scaling decisions. The savings figure is company-reported, and the operating model is still undisclosed.
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Project Crystal Sun lands on top of $16.8 billion for Terafab. The incentive requested is a 10-year property tax abatement, and the filing names an unspecified alternative site outside Texas.
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Six of the largest private capital firms will securitize AI infrastructure. Nvidia backstops up to 25% of the GPU collateral, which is what lets senior debt clear a pension fund's credit committee.
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Treasury promises restrictions "never seen" and the Pentagon says the blockade can run indefinitely, while a record carrier deployment and 45 lost Reapers show what holding the line costs.
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