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.

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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Energy

Generac Soars After $2.4B Deal to Provide Backup Power for Amazon

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In its last earnings call, Generac said that its data center backlog already totaled $1.6 billion before accounting for the Amazon agreement.

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Energy

Fed Raises Interest Rates for First Time in Three Years as Diesel, Gas Prices Surge

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It’s the central bank’s first increase since 2023, a move that looked far from certain as recently as one week ago.

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Semiconductors

Intel-Backed Altera Joins IPO Tsunami

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The Altera debut will add to more than $160 billion raised for US IPOs so far this year excluding SPAC launches, according to Bloomberg data.

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Artificial Intelligence

Will Doomsayers Derail Anthropic’s Mega IPO?

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Anthropic’s S-1 filing with the SEC is expected to be released publicly in the coming days or weeks, and it will likely face new scrutiny.

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Artificial Intelligence

Meta May Be an AI Winner After All: Morgan Stanley

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Morgan Stanley’s determination that Meta may win a large piece of the $30 trillion consumer AI pie buoys a firm viewed as an AI also-ran.

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Real Estate

Post-Pandemic, ‘Living at the Office’ Takes on New (and Lucrative) Meaning

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Are extreme office makeovers truly a solution to the housing shortage synonymous with life in large US cities today?

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Industrials

Musk’s Boring Company Scores $23 Billion Valuation Despite Slow Progress

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The most recent funding round for Elon Musk’s Boring Co. valued it at $23 billion, an almost four-fold increase from its last round in 2022.

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Industrials

Thiel, Andreessen-backed Defense Startup Promises Cheap Missiles as US Rebuilds Arsenal

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Covenant says its factories will be capable of producing 1,000 missiles each next year, with the goal of scaling up to 5,000 missiles a year.

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Industrials

GE Aerospace Makes $12B Play in Clogged Market for Cast Metal Parts

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For GE Aerospace the acquisition represents a critical chance to it expand its own production capacity amid booming demand.

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Electric Vehicles

As China Sales Sag, BYD Gains Global Edge

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In its recent earnings call, the BYD reported that its overseas sales trumped its domestic sales for the first time in its history.

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Social Media

Can YouTube Catch TikTok in the Live Shopping Wars?

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Sales on TikTok Shop accounted for 2% of all US e-commerce sales in July, according to Consumer Edge, more than Costco or Target.

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Retirement Upside

Nvidia Raises Bet on Open-Source AI With $13B Hugging Face Deal

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“Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said.

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Artificial Intelligence

Uber, Waymo and Tesla Speed Toward Driverless Future

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Goldman Sachs estimates that the total number of robotaxis on the road will increase from around 7,000 last year to 1 million by 2030

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Consumer

Chobani Cashes In on Protein-Maxxing Boom

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Chobani, whose sales volume has jumped 20% in the past three years, is planning a high-protein milk product amid a larger expansion.

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Consumer

Abbott Introduces America’s First Liquid Baby Formula With Whole Milk

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The benefit of whole milk-based baby formula is that it more closely mirrors the fat blend found in breast milk than powdered baby formula.

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Big Tech

Apple Enters Phase 2 of its AI Long Game

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Apple’s returning to a familiar playbook in the AI age: leveraging a massive consumer reach to become Silicon Valley’s top rent collector.

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Consumer

Best Buy Hikes Outlook After Hot Summer Quarter

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Despite tariff chaos, soaring electronics prices, and deflating consumer sentiment, Best Buy just delivered a strong beat.

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Inflation & Prices

Sticky Inflation Report Raises Jackson Hole Stakes for Fed’s Warsh

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Consider the dream of the presumptively dovish Warsh delivering a rate cut this year now officially dead and buried (if it wasn’t already)

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