Brian Boyle

brian@thedailyupside.com

Brian Boyle (he/him) is Lead Reporter at The Daily Upside. His writing has previously appeared in outlets such as Vice, Slate, and The Los Angeles Times, where he was a contributing writer on the opinion section. He lives in Los Angeles.

Banking

Morgan Stanley Weighs $1.3 Billion Dallas Bet

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The Dallas City Council approved an economic incentive package that would grant the bank up to $18.5 million in economic development grants.

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Banking

Who’s Ahead in JPMorgan’s Game of Thrones?

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The race to succeeed Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan Chase has apparently narrowed to just two candidates, Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh.

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Big Tech

Google Gains Spot on Dow Jones While Losing Street Cred in AI

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Google shares have been hammered recently as two top artificial intelligence researchers spurned the company to join OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Technology

Quantum Strategy Helps IBM Steer Around Tech Wreck

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IBM shares rose 5% on Tuesday, thanks largely to a pair of executive orders signed that helped funnel it toward a quantum-fueled future.

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Media & Entertainment

‘Toy Story 5’ Box Office Haul Highlights Hollywood’s Hot Streak

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The domestic box office has pulled in nearly $4.5 billion so far this year, the highest mark for the period since 2019, according to Rentrak.

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Energy

Uranium Deal Powers Up Nuclear Fission Firm Oklo

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Oklo struck a multiyear purchasing agreement with Centrus Energy for a difficult-to-source fuel for its new-age nuclear reactors.

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Personal Finance

Micro-Retirement vs. Money Fire: How Gen Z Workers Pull Off Unpaid Sabbaticals

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Taking an extended break mid-career is the new goal for many young workers, but experts warn it can be more expensive than it looks.

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Big Tech

Apple Joins the High-Tech Price-Hike Club

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Samsung, Dell, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have all recently announced price hikes to their consumer electronics.

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Autos

Carvana Revs Up Push into New Auto Market

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According to Cox Automotive data, Americans spent $655 billion buying new cars in 2025, compared with $524 billion spent on buying used cars.

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Consumer

Yum Brands Slices Up Pizza Hut in $2.7 Billion Sale

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Unlike KFC and Taco Bell, the latter of which is on a Diablo Sauce-level hot streak, Pizza Hut’s revenue and profit figures declined in 2025.

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Media & Entertainment

Fox Places Big Bet on Streaming with $22 Billion Roku Deal

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Folding The Roku Channel into Fox would create a media conglomerate capable of competing for eyeballs, and ad dollars, with the best of them.

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Media & Entertainment

Amid World Cup Mania, FanDuel Parent Drops Dual Listing

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Flutter told Barron’s last week that it expects to manage 100,000 bets per minute at peak times during the World Cup.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can KKR Outmaneuver One of the Biggest AI Infrastructure Bottlenecks?

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The big money firm is teaming up with Nvidia, Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund, and Texas energy producer Vistra to build data centers.

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Artificial Intelligence

Will Wall Street Stomach Oracle’s Costly AI Transformation?

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Capital expenditures continue to balloon and the company plans to raise another $40 billion through debt and equity financing.

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Markets

Marvell Joins S&P as Volatility Slams Chip Sector

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There’s been a bit of a vibe shift since Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tabbed Marvell as “next trillion-dollar company” just a week ago.

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Industrials

The SpaceX IPO Is About Way More Than Just Rocket Ships

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Projections of massive growth for X (née Twitter), xAI and Starlink are all central to the lofty SpaceX IPO thesis.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can $2 Billion Startup Generalist AI Solve the Robot Training Conundrum?

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Training the AI robots that can interact in the physical world requires a gargantuan set of relevant training data that doesn’t yet exist.

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Energy

Regulator Helps Constellation Energy Fast-Track Three Mile Island Revival

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The plan is to bring the infamous power plant back online sometime next year to service a nearby glut of power-hungry Microsoft data centers.

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Semiconductors

ASML Becomes Biggest Company in European History

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A share price rally pushed ASML’s market cap to $668 billion on Wednesday, beating a European record set by Novo Nordisk in June 2024.

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Banking

Anthropic Raises Stakes in Wall Street’s IPO Gold Rush

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In March, The Information reported that bankers involved in taking the company public expect it to raise a monstrous $60 billion in its IPO.

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