Brian Boyle

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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.

Industrials

Boeing Meets With FAA to Lay Out its Improvement Plan

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The FAA won’t clear the current production cap and plans to approve every single plane that comes off Boeing’s production lines.

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Energy

ConocoPhillips Acquires Marathon Oil in $22 Billion Deal

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The deal provides increased operations both outside of and within the highly desirably Permian Basin oil fields of Western Texas.

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Indicators

The Inverted Yield Curve Usually Predicts a Recession — Until Now

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The yield curve has now been inverted for around 400 trading sessions, and there’s no recession in sight. So what gives?

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Artificial Intelligence

The Scarlett Johansson-OpenAI Clash is a Vision of the Future

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As one legal expert put the issue: “The technology is moving faster than the law ever will.”

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Media & Entertainment

Can a Paramount Sale Break the Mold of Media Mergers?

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Just what, exactly, would Sony and Apollo Global Management be getting out of a Paramount Global acquisition?

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Consumer

Good Luck: Travel Should Be a Mess This Weekend

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If 3 million people pass through security checkpoints Friday, it’d mark the busiest travel day ever recorded.

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Big Tech

Amazon Reignites its Warehouse and Logistics Expansion

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The e-commerce king has either leased, bought, or announced the addition of 16 million square feet of warehouse space this year.

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Regulation

Regulation is Here at Last for Buy Now, Pay Later

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But the new don’t require platforms to report how they interact with credit bureaus, keeping many transactions in a black box.

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Healthcare

Hims & Hers Stock Jumps On New Discount Weight-Loss Drug Offering

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A loophole lets the company create a back-door offering of a generic drug before the patents of Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly expire.

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Media & Entertainment

Has Fox Turned Tubi into a Streaming Success?

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The service has grown to 74 million monthly active users, a bigger audience than the Max paid-subscription platform.

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Consumer

Walmart’s Market Cap Jumps to All-Time High After Stellar Earnings

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The retail giant posted $161 billion in quarterly revenue, marking a 6% increase and beating its earlier sales target.

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Social Media

Billionaire Frank McCourt Pursues TikTok Acquisition

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McCourt says his goal is to build “a new and better version of the internet, where individuals are respected.”

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Media & Entertainment

Comcast is Building a Streaming Bundle with Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+

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Comcast announced it would soon launch a new bundle that would package together its streaming service Peacock with Netflix and Apple TV+.

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Private Equity

Private Equity Group Dodges FTC Antitrust Lawsuit

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A US judge ruled Tuesday that private equity groups still have legal cover from lawsuits involving their portfolio companies.

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Energy

US Oil Industry Faces Wave of Antitrust Trouble

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US shale producers are on the receiving end of a wild well of class-action lawsuits alleging anticompetitive behavior.

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Economics

Is the US Seeing a Startup Boom?

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After a slump through the latter half of the last decade, the US is experiencing a startup tsunami, according to The Economist.

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Social Media

TikTok to Start Labeling AI-Created Content

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The platform says it plans to identify and label content created by other AI tools, like Adobe’s Firefly and OpenAI’s Dall-E.

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Consumer

Uber Takes a U-Turn Back to Unprofitability

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A $721 million loss from equity investments in other companies pulled the entire company down to an overall loss of $654 million.

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Media & Entertainment

Disney’s Streaming Unit is Finally (Sort of) Profitable

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The company’s Disney+ and Hulu platforms eked out $47 million in operating income. Just don’t ask about ESPN+.

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Blockchain

Robinhood’s Crypto Unit Receives SEC Wells Notice

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The move follows the SEC’s suit against crypto exchange Coinbase for allegedly operating an unregistered securities exchange.

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