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Dell Technologies is a major IT hardware maker selling PCs, laptops, servers, and storage systems, plus enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions.
Michael Dell's family-office fund is buying 1.34% of SK Inc from chairman Chey Tae-won for 544 billion won, about $406 million at 1,339.6 won. The block is 58% of the 944 billion won Chey is raising for a divorce settlement.
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Gartner and IDC both put Q3 2026 global PC shipments down more than 20% year on year, at 55.4 million and 62.7 million units. IDC expects prices to hold at these levels, so refresh budgets should assume dearer machines and fewer cheap models.
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Dell's Helen O'Sullivan says some Bay Area customers run through token budgets in weeks that they allotted for months. Her fix keeps frontier models and adds open-source models and on-prem infrastructure.
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The order book grew several times faster than the shipments draining it, a book-to-bill near 3.7 for the quarter. The same arithmetic makes Dell's shipping schedule the binding variable.
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Global PC shipments fell 20.1% from a year earlier to 62.7 million units in the third quarter of 2026, IDC said. For anyone budgeting a laptop refresh, IDC expects promotions on excess channel stock but prices that stay well above year-ago levels.
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Donald Trump is giving the National Medal of Science to Musk, Brin, Huang and Su and the technology medal to Dell and Nadella on Thursday. CNBC reported that all six have funded Trump or Republican causes, and his latest disclosure shows trades in companies tied to five of them.
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Dell will make a one-time $1,000 deposit into the Trump Accounts of its employees' eligible children, joining Goldman Sachs and Micron. For employers weighing a match, the cost per child is modest and the evidence that workers expect one is still thin.
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Auto-enrollment of more than 60 million children has lifted Trump accounts to nearly 70 million, up from about 7 million opt-ins, according to Treasury. Parents still have to claim each account before qualifying contributions can go in, so the jump counts accounts opened.
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Dell is adding a semantic layer and knowledge graph to its AI Data Platform for AI agents, with both due in the first half of 2027. Dell says agents now burn tokens on every query piecing together answers that should already exist.
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Dell has fixed CVE-2026-86360, a critical path traversal in Dell System Update that lets an unauthenticated remote attacker run code as root. Any server on a DSU build older than 2.3.0.0 stays exposed until it is updated.
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About 100 tech billionaires added a record $845bn in the first nine months of 2026, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The gains sit in a few US fortunes tied to AI share prices, so they describe this year's stock market better than next year's AI spending.
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JERA will feed a 400-megawatt AI data center costing more than $15 billion directly from its Chiba gas plant, with Apollo lined up to finance it. A 15-to-25-year supply contract gives JERA a long-dated buyer while the developer and its backer carry the construction bill.
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Dell patched six critical flaws in its Kubernetes storage modules, one letting unauthenticated attackers pull admin credentials for every registered array. The Authorization module holds those keys for each array it fronts, so one reachable deployment exposes all the storage registered behind it.
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Groq 3 LPX is in full production with Nebius as the named first customer. The benchmark is one model at one context length, and the 4x claim does not quite get from hours to minutes.
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Memory costs are moving through invoices, not absorbed. HP's implied selling prices jumped about 40% in the quarter, and Reuters reports Dell, Apple and Lenovo are raising prices too.
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One Dell rollup alone carried 435 CVEs, among them a kernel privilege-escalation bug that had already shipped in two other Dell advisories. That is why a single vendor feed cannot describe a GPU estate.
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Kiwoom's S&P 500 Momentum ETF replaced 54 of its 99 holdings in one scheduled rebalance, putting Apple on top at 9.23%, dropping Nvidia and Broadcom, and raising Intel and AMD to 4.89% each.
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Crypto Briefing totals the family's AI positions at $620 million of Pentagon loans, a $6 billion Trump Media merger with fusion developer TAE, and 38% of a token issuer that has booked $1.4 billion in revenue. A counterparty would need to know which entity holds what.
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A SecurityWeek column argues that boards, customers and regulators now want proof that controls hold today. Its one measurement is a 2025 Dell finding: 69 percent of IT professionals say their leadership overestimates cyber readiness.
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The $60.9bn of AI orders equals 64% of the $95bn backlog Dell carried out the door, so the book is fresh rather than deep, and the raised $192bn guide needs the quarters still to come to grow faster than 70%.
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