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.

Consumer

Keurig Dr Pepper Adds Peet’s Coffee to Soon-to-Fracture Beverage Empire

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After the Peet’s acquisition, Keurig Dr Pepper says it will split into two companies: one focused on coffee and the other on soft drinks.

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Technology

Samsung Chips Away Bigger Share of US Smartphone Market

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Samsung’s growth come directly at the expense of Apple, which now holds less than half of US market share.

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Real Estate

‘Near-Zero’ Price Growth Boosts Homebuyers’ Prospects

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Prices for existing homes in the US inched up just 0.2% in July, according to a National Association of Realtors report published Thursday.

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Electric Vehicles

VW’s Super Cheap EV Trades ‘Willkommen’ for ‘Boas-vindas’ — Plus a €30M Incentive

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VW’s finance chief Arno Antlitz warned last September that the company had “a year, maybe two years, to turn things around.”

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Consumer

Target Struggles as Wary Shoppers Prioritize Cost-Cutting

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Wednesday’s earnings call also brought news that longtime target chief executive officer Brian Cornell is leaving his post.

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Semiconductors

SoftBank Acquires a 2% Stake in Embattled Intel

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The deal comes as the US government explores a deal to take as much as a 10% ownership stake in the Santa Clara, California, firm.

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Consumer

Home Depot Predicts Pent-Up Home Improvement Demand

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CFO Richard McPhail said that do-it-yourself customers have been pushing forward with smaller home improvement projects.

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Real Estate

Homebuilders Offer Best Incentives Since COVID

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A full 37% of homebuilders have slashed prices this month, down ever so slightly from a record 38% in July.

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Technology

Can Robotaxis Take Over New York?

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Tesla and Waymo are among the entrants trying to turn congested New York City, the home of the yellow cab, into a robotaxi hub.

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Social Media

Can Reddit Provide a Human-Centric Haven from AI Chatbots?

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In our increasingly artificial digital age, sometimes internet denizens desire an actual human touch. Enter Reddit.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can OpenAI Recover From Botched GPT-5 Rollout?

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Where recent iterations of ChatGPT allowed users to tinker with various settings, GPT-5 attempted to do the tinkering for the user.

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Industrials

China Recreates a Shipbuilding Dreadnought

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To the extent they ever really were, China’s two major state-owned shipmakers will no longer be ships that pass in the night.

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Media & Entertainment

Paramount Ponies Up $7.7 Billion to Win UFC Rights

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Inflation & Prices

Consumers Aren’t Yet Bearing the Brunt of Inflation, Goldman Warns

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The laws of business gravity say that when costs go up, those costs will, eventually, trickle down to the consumer.

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Industrials

Spacecraft-Maker Firefly Shoots for the Moon in Nasdaq Debut

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Just a week after Figma’s successful market debut, Firefly Aerospace saw its stock pop more than 34% after listing on the Nasdaq on Thursday.

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Semiconductors

Intel’s CEO Lands in a Political Hot Seat Over Connections With China

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Chip industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan was supposed to fix the company’s problems. Now, Tan has become the company’s problem.

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Big Tech

Apple Adds $100 Billion to American Investment Plans

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For those keeping score at home, that’s in addition to the $500 billion in domestic investments Apple announced earlier this year.

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Energy

Trump’s Moonshot Ignites Nuclear Stocks Rally

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Russia and China have already announced plans for a joint-base small modular nuclear react on the moon by the mid-2030s.

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Healthcare

Pfizer Pops Despite Looming Pharma Tariffs

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The tariff threat come just a few days after the White House sent letters to major drugmakers demanding slashed prices for US patients.

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Electric Vehicles

Tesla is Paying Up to Keep Elon Musk’s Eyes On the Road

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During the company’s second-quarter earnings report last month, Musk admitted the company may be headed for “a few rough quarters.”

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