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Semiconductors

AMD Joins Chipmakers Struggling to Impress Traders With Upbeat Earnings

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It’s not just AMD. Investors have generally been hard to please for most chipmakers so far this earnings season.

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Artificial Intelligence

Palantir Rides Epic Hot Streak Into Earnings Report

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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Artificial Intelligence

May AI Take Your Order, Please?

AI is moving into jobs in food services and retail traditionally best left to humans. Can the imperfect tech give customers what they want?

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Big Tech

Big Tech Pulls Off a Very Big Earnings Week

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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CIO Upside

IBM Patent Leverages AI to Fix AI

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Throwing AI at problems might not always be the answer.

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M&A

Palo Alto Networks Broadens Cybersecurity Consolidation With $25B Deal

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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Electric Vehicles

Can Tesla and Samsung Find Salvation in Each Other?

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

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Electric Vehicles

‘Flying Car’ Industry Taxis Toward Takeoff

A US-based startup, backed by Japan’s Toyota, and a freshly capitalized initiative in China could make flying cars a full reality next year.

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Policy & Power

Defense Earnings Highlight Peril, Payoff of Contracting

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A slew of quarterly reports last week showed, even with analysts flashing buy recommendations, the defense sector is a sensitive one.

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Blockchain

Stablecoins Are Here to Stay. Who Stands to Gain From Them?

Companies that have been waiting on the crypto sidelines are likely about to jump in the game following the passage of the GENIUS Act.

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Big Tech

Google Search Weathers AI Storm — For Now

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

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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Blockchain

Goldman Sachs, BNY Bring $7 Trillion Money Market to Blockchain

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The announcement comes just days after President Trump signed a law that introduces US-regulated stablecoins.

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Blockchain

Goldman Sachs, BNY Bring $7 Trillion Money Market to Blockchain

The announcement comes just days after President Trump signed a law that introduces US-regulated stablecoins.

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Finance

Block Stock Pops in S&P 500 Debut

Block’s membership in the index comes as it transitions into an all-in-one finance platform that offers debit cards and loans to clients.

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Big Tech

Microsoft Stock Unfazed by Hack Threatening Thousands of Customers

The vulnerability exploited by the attack only affects on-premise Sharepoint servers, meaning clients using the cloud version are unaffected.

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