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.

Finance

BlackRock’s Happy Place is at the Crossroads of All Global Capital

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In a blockbuster third-quarter earnings report, the asset management giant said it took in net inflows of $205 billion, beating expectations.

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Healthcare

Walmart Adds GLP-1 Coverage for Some Employees

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America’s largest private sector employer told workers that it plans to expand free insurance coverage to more than 250 prescription drugs.

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Semiconductors

Chips Still Up for TSMC and ASML

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TSMC announced last week that its third-quarter revenue came in at a record $46.7 billion, up 50% year-over-year.

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Artificial Intelligence

Reflection Wants to Deliver America’s Most Powerful Open-Weight AI

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The arrival of Reflection, a made-in-America AI model, is cause for self-reflection for the country’s major frontier labs.

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Artificial Intelligence

Palantir’s Poised to Win in the Sovereign AI Era, Goldman Says

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Frontier labs may be offering the cutting-edge AI tools on the planet, but they’re a bit too squishy when it comes to privacy.

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Real Estate

Tishman Speyer Wants to Return the Chrysler Building to Former Glory

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Tishman Speyer agreed to a $235 million deal to take control of the legendary Art Deco tower in Midtown Manhattan.

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Semiconductors

AMD Rides Muse Hype to New Heights

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Citi analyst Atif Malik increased his price target for the stock to $800 from $575 on Tuesday, citing the rise of agentic AI.

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Media & Entertainment

Skydance Faces One Box Office Bust After Another

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Over the weekend, “Digger” earned an abysmal $8 million across 3,300 screens with a budget that reportedly ran close to $180 million.

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Healthcare

Grail Jumps as Cancer Test Nears Market

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Grail’s testing mechanism, dubbed the Galleri, can test for about 50 different cancers from a single blood draw.

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Semiconductors

TSMC Considers New Plant in Lone Star State

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Any Texas plant would feature multiple foundries, sources told Bloomberg, each of which would cost as much as $20 billion.

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Industrials

Boeing Gets Boost from Navy Contract While FAA Delays Max 10

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It’s Boeing’s second military contract in two years, after scoring a $20 billion contract to build F-47 jets for the Air Force in March 2025.

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Indicators

Consumers Aren’t Buying Stable Job Market Data

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On Tuesday, The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index fell to its lowest level in 12 years in September.

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Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Develops Tools to Tackle Rogue AI Risks

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Its Open Agent Safety Platform is a training sandbox designed to prevent the breaches that have led to hacks at Hugging Face and elsewhere.

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Media & Entertainment

Netflix Struggles to Regain Engagement Momentum, Escape YouTube’s Shadow

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The company’s stock has received two recent analysts downgrades, after both flagged increased competition from YouTube.

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Artificial Intelligence

The Gig’s Up: Robotaxis, Delivery Drones Reshape the Side-Hustle Market

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One study from George Washington University found that the transition to robotaxis could “decrease frontline jobs by 57% to 76%.”

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Technology

Cybersecurity Stocks Soar Amid Mounting Concern Over AI Hacks

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Both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei urged the United Nations Security Council this week to adopt new AI safety standards.

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Consumer

Wall Street Isn’t Biting on McDonald’s NEXT Menu

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CEO Chris Kempczinski told CNBC Wednesday the company expects inflation and mediocre traffic to continue for the foreseeable future.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can Alibaba Become a Serious Hyperscaler?

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Alibaba says it plans to operate more than 20 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2032, roughly equivalent to China’s total capacity today.

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Media & Entertainment

Superman, Harry Potter and a Pile of Debt: What Paramount Won in WBD Settlement

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The conglomerate’s $80 billion debt load will be equal to roughly 6.5 times EBITDA, according to most estimates.

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Technology

IBM Takes a Billion-Dollar Step Toward Becoming Quantum’s Foundry King

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The federal government handed IBM $1 billion last week to help the build the first pure play quantum wafer foundry in the US.

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