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Cities, sponsors, and leagues are treating the World Cup like a giant conversion funnel — before soccer has earned big-sport status here
Starbucks’ Bearista Cold Cup launch triggers chaos and resale markups, raising questions about hype-driven marketing
The U.S. keeps wrapping AI in stars and stripes. But developers and startups keep buying into Chinese models that are cheap, open — and everywhere
The first royal email looked like a breakthrough. Today’s version looks like late-night replies and an inability to ever completely disconnect
Headline inflation has cooled, but rising prices are still forcing consumers to spend more carefully — and companies are adjusting
The company posted record revenue, margins, and guidance, but Wall Street fixated on a capex hike that revived the chip industry’s oldest fear:...
The binge has outgrown its data-center-only era, dragging turbines, pipelines, private credit, and anti-LLM moonshots into AI’s widening orbit
Huang’s GTC keynote pitched an AI economy built on inference, tokens, and agentic systems — with Nvidia selling the factory floor where all of...
Goldman says Brent will average above $100 in March, turning a week of ugly oil spikes into a forecast that assumes the pain is sticking around
Avocado was supposed to show that Meta’s superintelligence push was paying off. But now it’s late, and Gemini may fill the gap
New Better Business Bureau records show 33 Buc-ee’s locations with F ratings after 88 consumer complaints — and counting — went unanswered
The AI mood at SXSW has shifted from novelty to economics, with sessions narrowing in on search, the creator economy, data centers, and the grid...
Oracle handed Wall Street the same giant cloud-and-AI story again, but this time, customer-funded chips and steadier math made things sound bankable
Ellison’s pitch to investors is simple: AI may scramble software, but Oracle’s role in the data, workflow, and compliance guts of business still pays
The Trump sons’ latest drone bet runs through a tiny Florida golf company that’s now trying to rebrand itself for a White House-backed boom
With AMI, Yann LeCun is trying to prove that Silicon Valley’s chatbot boom may be backing the wrong kind of artificial intelligence after all
Airport security lines are stretching for hours as unpaid TSA officers absorb the shutdown fallout just as spring-break traffic starts to surge
JPMorgan’s shifting tone suggests that Wall Street may be too relaxed about a war that’s quickly becoming an oil and inflation problem
Oil’s surge is now a gas-price problem, an airline problem, a bond-market problem, and after Friday’s jobs miss, a Fed headache for markets
Sales jumped 9%, and membership fees rose 14% — another quarter where Costco turned traffic and subscriptions into the kind of steady growth most...
The company resumed stock buybacks for the first time since 2024 as the new CEO said he and Warren Buffett still speak every day
Stocks slipped again as oil pushed higher and Treasury yields followed, a one-two punch that dragged the Dow down and had the S&P 500 back in retreat
Wall Street keeps sanding down its worry by the close, but Solomon says the “cumulative effect” can take weeks — and markets won’t warn you first
The Trump administration’s new tariff plan is a legal patch job: 10% today, maybe 15% this week, and a mad dash to rebuild duties before a July cutoff
A jump in energy prices turns a stock selloff into an inflation trade, lifting the 10-year and dragging the rate-cut calendar further out — again
GWU’s Ashburn tech campus is headed for a second life as Amazon capacity, as the AI boom turns classrooms into compute
Anthropic drew red lines, OpenAI signed anyway, and the internet voted fast with downloads as Claude topped the App Store — then briefly crashed
With earnings cooling and insurance turning, Berkshire's new CEO stakes his tenure on Berkshire's discipline — and on patience measured in decades
Netflix left the bidding war and gained something else: a double-digit stock pop from investors who were relieved to avoid a sprawling media merger
Nvidia posted yet another monster quarter, but the stock still fell as traders priced the AI economy’s payback, not just the chipmaker’s beat
A record quarter met a market priced for perfection, and Nvidia answered with revenue and a forecast that reset the AI math — again
Meta's AI buildout gets a second supplier as AMD signs up for gigawatts — and for a contract that's designed to reward shipping and punish slipping
Nvidia's fourth quarter earnings are expected to be enormous. But that can still disappoint a crowd that paid for a bigger and louder fireworks show
Microsoft is hedging its OpenAI bet by building its own models, chips, and leverage — so “Copilot everywhere” never depends on a single supplier
Musk pitched a lunar industry for AI — a moon supply chain and a mass-driver launcher — plus an X growth moonshot
Cloudflare’s earnings beat and record enterprise deals sent shares up about 10%, as analysts embraced its role in an AI-driven, bot-heavy web
Amazon’s earnings showed momentum across AWS and ads. Then, the company dared AI-hungry investors to underwrite its $200 billion long game
Claude’s Super Bowl swing turns therapy, homework, business, and fitness into ad breaks — a pointed jab as OpenAI tests ads in ChatGPT
Search keeps printing, Cloud is throwing off real profit — and Google's stock still flinched, because its 2026 capex makes the AI era look like...
OpenAI has the breakout product, but Google owns the starting points — and Gemini is being wired into the internet’s routines before you notice
SpaceX wants an AI platform story for investors. Buying xAI delivers it — and pulls Grok’s myriad safety failures and legal heat along for the ride
Disney is handing the top job to parks chief Josh D'Amaro, betting turnstiles and experiences can steady a company sorting out streaming and studios
Palatir delivered the kind of fourth-quarter profitability that tends to quiet the nice-demo crowd – for at least a few hours
Nvidia tries to keep OpenAI rich without a $100 billion commitment, Oracle seeks $50 billion, and the boom keeps booming — for now
Earnings week turned AI into accounting: who can fund the build with cash on hand, and who needs the build to make the dream real
For a company that has spent the past year being asked whether its best days are behind it, the numbers arrived without any qualifiers
Profit plunged and Tesla’s stock still popped after hours as investors priced robotaxis, energy momentum, and Elon Musk’s next AI wager
Meta’s ad engine just threw off another blockbuster quarter — and then priced out 2026 like an AI land rush, with capex up to $135 billion
Microsoft beat expectations and showed real AI demand, but Azure’s growth and a big infrastructure bill left investors looking at the payoff timeline
The iPhone is aging into infrastructure; Services is doing Office math, and Apple’s next act has to arrive before its “premium” cycle cools for good