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.

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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Media & Entertainment

Can Summer Box Office Rebound Take Warner Bros. ‘Up, Up and Away’?

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Warner Bros. Discovery entered the year stuck in media conglomerate mud, with its eponymous film studio in especially bad shape.

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Artificial Intelligence

Palantir Rides Epic Hot Streak Into Earnings Report

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The AI-powered, data-crunching defense tech company enters its earnings call Monday as the year’s hottest stocks on the S&P 500.

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Big Tech

Big Tech Pulls Off a Very Big Earnings Week

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The reports made one thing clear: Big Tech’s big AI bet is already paying off — which explains why they can’t help but double down.

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Banking

Evercore’s Purchase of Robey Warshaw May Birth Trans-Atlantic M&A Titan

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The deal will help bolster Evercore’s presence in Europe, where it placed 13th by deal volume in PwC’s advisory rankings last year.

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M&A

Palo Alto Networks Broadens Cybersecurity Consolidation With $25B Deal

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With CyberArk, Palo Alto enters into the “identity security” market, now at an “inflection point” due to the rise of agentic AI.

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Finance

Can the S&P 500 Sustain a #HotStockSummer?

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On Tuesday, the S&P 500 closed down 0.3%, snapping a remarkable streak of six straight closing highs through Monday.

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Consumer

Is Nike Pulling Off Its Comeback Plan?

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In its fiscal year 2025 earnings call, the company said it projects new tariffs will saddle it with $1 billion in additional costs this year.

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Electric Vehicles

Can Tesla and Samsung Find Salvation in Each Other?

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For Samsung, it’s a chance to finally carve out some foundry industry market share from rival chipmaker TSMC.

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Real Estate

US Housing Market Mired in the Mud

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While June typically marks the hottest point of the year for home sales, last month instead saw a decline as prices rose to a record high.

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Big Tech

Google Search Weathers AI Storm — For Now

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The cannibalization of traditional search by AI chatbots is difficult to quantify, though by all accounts AI is already taking some nibbles.

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Industries

American, Delta Take Opposite Sides of AI Pricing Debate

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In its earnings call earlier this month, Delta said that around 3% of domestic tickets sold this year have been priced by the AI tech.

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Big Tech

Amazon, Meta Wear AI-mbitions on Their Wrists

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Both Amazon and Meta have already flirted with the smartwatch space, only to ultimately abandon their initial ambitions.

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Electric Vehicles

Crowded by EV Rivals, Tesla Preps For Critical Earnings Report

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For what feels like the third or fourth time in a row, Tesla is gearing up for what may be the most important earnings call in its history.

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Industrials

Gates-Backed ‘Green Steel’ Startup Clears Key Milestone

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Heavy industrials remain one of the most significant drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, and also one of the toughest to eliminate.

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