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.

Private Equity

Thoma Bravo’s $34B Win Leaves PE Rivals Choking on Exhaust Fumes

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Private equity is stuck in a cycle of fewer exits, fewer returns, and fewer backers willing to sign up for new funds.

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Artificial Intelligence

Palantir Becomes Trump Trade’s Big Winner

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Palantir’s share price has soared some 77% year-to-date on the backs of key federal government contracts, to hit a record valuation on Monday.

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Economics

Wall Street Braces for More Investors Dissing Dollar

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The dollar decline comes just as a couple of other key US economic indicators have begun blinking red, too.

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Artificial Intelligence

No ‘Gray’ Area in New York Times’ AI Deal with Amazon

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The agreement comes as The New York Times continues to sue OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement.

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Industries

Can US Tourism Bounce Back Amid Trade War?

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2025 is projected to be an unusually terrible year for the US travel industry — and only the US travel industry.

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Economics

Shrinking GDP Shows Tariffs’ Impact as Courts Scrutinize Their Legality

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Keeping track of the Trump’s on-and-off tariff strategy was hard enough — and now the judicial system is having their turn at the switch.

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Economics

Waiting Game: Why Fed Isn’t Ready to Cut Rates (Yet)

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The Fed was already walking a tightrope over a bottomless pit of stagflation before waves of tariffs came to rattle the line.

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Economics

Consumer Confidence Rebounds as Tariff Tensions (Temporarily) Ease

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You can’t bounce back without first getting low. And, in April, consumer confidence according to the Conference Board got real low.

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Media & Entertainment

Netflix Should Thank Hollywood for Half-Trillion Dollar Market Cap

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The cable-dependent legacy media players spent the 2010s helping to sharpen the Netflix-issued cord-cutting clippers.

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Artificial Intelligence

Now Entering Uncanny Valley: Why AI ‘Avatars’ Are Suddenly Everywhere

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One high-profile early adopter: Swiss bank UBS, which is turning its army of investment banking analysts into AI avatars.

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Media & Entertainment

‘Eras Tour’ Logistics Team Bought for $1 Billion

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Consider it a big bet on the future of live events, which, in Swiftie speak, GCL knows about “All Too Well.”

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Electric Vehicles

CATL Comes Fully Charged in Hong Kong Debut

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CATL — blacklisted by the US Department of Defense in January for alleged ties to the Chinese military — pulled off the best IPO of the year.

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Finance

Klarna Discovers Customers Prefer Buying Now to Paying Later

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Klarna’s 100 million-user win sounds nice, but its users are increasingly struggling with the “pay later” part of the arrangement.

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Big Tech

What is Microsoft’s AI Future Without OpenAI?

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As its relationship with OpenAI evolves and dissolves, Microsoft signals that it is single and ready to mingle in the AI space.

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International Economics

US Trade War Saps China’s Economic Momentum

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While a trade war bruised the US economy, China isn’t immune to the pain, and its leaders are growing more receptive to negotiation.

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Big Tech

DOJ Pressures Google to Adopt ‘Sharing is Caring’ Data Ethos

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To Google, user search data is the all-important secret sauce that enables it to innovate and outperform rivals.

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Finance

Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities Has Some Tips for SEC

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Top of the list is a warning over the rise of 24-hour trading, just as the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange pursue it.

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Big Tech

Apple Leads Manufacturing Pivot to India

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Apple shifting production to India is just the latest sign that the world’s most populous nation may be a winner in global trade reordering.

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International Economics

Retailers Prep for Supply Chain Breakdown

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To prepare for a slowdown of global trade, US retailers spent months building a massive inventory to prevent empty shelves.

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Big Tech

What Does Google’s Search Monopoly Mean in the Age of AI?

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Back in 2020, Google’s huge market share of the internet search market hovered at about 92% by most metrics

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