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Starbucks made a $30 glass bear cup. Chaos ensued

The Bearista Cold Cup was meant to spread holiday cheer. Instead, it sold out in hours, sparked fights, and turned a $30 cup into a speculative asset

10.11.2025 4

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Tesla's top Cybertruck executive is calling it quits

Siddhant Awasthi, the engineer who turned Elon Musk’s stainless-steel fantasy into a street-legal pickup, is leaving as the Cybertruck faces its...

10.11.2025 2

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Shannon Carroll

Tesla shareholders are expected to bet $1 trillion on Elon Musk

Shareholders at the electric-vehicle maker seem ready to approve the richest CEO pay package in history

06.11.2025 4

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The trade war is now all about rare earths. Here's what they are and why they matter

As the U.S. and China try to resolve tensions, the minerals that power EVs and smartphones are increasingly under lock and key. China holds most of...

05.11.2025 2

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Saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT costs OpenAI millions, Sam Altman says

Being nice to your AI chatbot requires computational power that raises electricity and water costs

03.11.2025 10

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Big Tech has gone industrial

Earnings across Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple showed the same thing: proof and power now matter more than promises

31.10.2025 2

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Microsoft earnings show the cost of building the AI economy

Microsoft’s latest quarter shows that the currency of the cloud is capacity, as the company spent $35 billion to keep pace with power and demand

31.10.2025 4

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Amazon beats the Street's expectations as its cloud finds altitude

AWS grew 20% to $33 billion, its fastest pace in over a year — still trailing Microsoft’s 40% and Google Cloud’s 34%, but closing the gap

31.10.2025 10

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Microsoft powers past estimates on a day its cloud stumbled, but shares still slip

Microsoft beat expectations with $77.7 billion in revenue and a 40% Azure surge, but shares slipped after hours as investors seemed fixated on margins

30.10.2025 10

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Nvidia's next big build is a bridge back to China

Nvidia is inching back toward China’s vast AI market as CEO Jensen Huang blends patriotism with quiet diplomacy to reopen the world’s...

29.10.2025 6

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has become Trump’s most enthusiastic ally in tech

Huang, long the swaggering high priest of Silicon Valley’s AI chip economy, arrived in Washington to deliver a sermon rewritten for the new regime

29.10.2025 5

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Nvidia's AI cars are entering Telsa's lane

The future of self-driving is shifting from charisma to compliance, and Nvidia’s blueprint may prove more durable than Tesla’s belief system

29.10.2025 4

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Here’s everything Nvidia unveiled at its first Washington GTC

Nvidia’s first-ever Washington GTC wasn’t just a product showcase — it was a policy statement, positioning AI as the next pillar of U.S. industry

28.10.2025 2

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Nvidia brings its AI roadshow to Washington

At Nvidia’s first Washington GTC, the company that made GPUs a religion is courting a new congregation: agencies with budgets bigger than data centers

28.10.2025 4

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Big Tech has built the future. Now it has to deliver on the present

The market still believes in the AI revolution. This week’s earnings will test whether Big Tech can stay profitable while waiting for the power to...

27.10.2025 10

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Inside Washington’s new temple to capitalism

At the new Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, ambition is renewable, optimism is merchandised, and irony remains blessedly free

26.10.2025 9

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Intel outperforms in Q3, but the comeback still has miles to go

Better margins, rising PC sales, and a lighter cost structure gave Intel its strongest report in years. Now, it has to catch up to the world it...

24.10.2025 4

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Tesla’s next frontier is convincing everyone that this is fine

Tesla’s latest quarter offered record revenue, shrinking margins, and a familiar promise: that the future’s delays are just part of the design

23.10.2025 3

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Elon Musk slams ‘corporate terrorists’ for opposing his $1 trillion Tesla pay package

Musk’s attack on proxy firms added drama to a Nov. 6 shareholder vote that won't just decide his pay, but how much control he keeps over Tesla’s...

23.10.2025 10

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Tesla’s record quarter comes with a cost

Revenue surged on strong demand before U.S. EV tax credits expired, yet profit and margins were squeezed

23.10.2025 10

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Apple's march to a $4 trillion market cap is gaining steam ahead of earnings

Apple’s strong iPhone 17 launch is lifting sales and sentiment alike, pushing its market cap toward rarified air ahead of next week’s earnings

22.10.2025 10

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Netflix’s biggest twist this quarter came from Brazil

A $619 million tax charge hit Netflix’s margin, but record ad sales, rising ARPU, and live events showed how its growth engine is evolving

21.10.2025 2

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Tesla still wants to sell the future. Investors just want the math

Tesla reports earnings Wednesday after record deliveries, with analysts watching margins, cash flow, and whether growth is holding up under pressure

20.10.2025 3

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Nvidia has been basically wiped out in China

With the company’s China business “100% out,” Nvidia is treating the world’s second-largest computing market as a rounding error — for now

20.10.2025 3

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Pumpkin-spice season is Wall Street’s favorite quarter

The pumpkin-spice latte has become a multibillion-dollar seasonal engine — driving foot traffic, grocery markups, and the scent of profit every fall

19.10.2025 10

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Even IKEA is raising prices in this economy

The company that made ”democratic design” a slogan now has to pay for democracy, as tariffs and input costs are forcing IKEA to rethink affordability

17.10.2025 2

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Oracle's deal with AMD deal is bigger than 50,000 chips

Oracle’s cloud arm has been dining almost exclusively at Nvidia’s table. Now it's buying leverage — and that costs billions

15.10.2025 2

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Tracking OpenAI's flurry of deals with Nvidia, Walmart, AMD, and more

Massive chip orders, new cloud partners, and retail tie-ins show how the world’s most valuable startup is building like an industrial giant

15.10.2025 2

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Is the AI boom actually a bubble? Here’s what analysts are saying

Tech’s latest rally has gone from earnings story to existential question, as analysts argue whether AI’s industrial buildout is sustainable or...

15.10.2025 2

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Is the AI boom actually a bubble? Here’s what the biggest names in business are saying

The AI boom has built a trillion-dollar faith in chips and hype. But even its architects can’t decide if they’re building history — or inflating it

15.10.2025 2

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Walmart wants to slide into your next ChatGPT session

Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to bring instant checkout to ChatGPT, collapsing the space between a request, a recommendation, and a sale

14.10.2025 2

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Cybertruck sales tanked 62.6% in Q3 this year

Cybertruck sales plunged as the rest of the EV market surged, suggesting Tesla’s flashiest project is becoming its weakest link

14.10.2025 6

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JPMorgan just drafted itself into America’s industrial war

The bank’s $1.5 trillion “Security and Resiliency” plan fuses Wall Street’s balance sheet with Washington’s industrial ambitions

13.10.2025 2

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Here comes an earnings season for the skeptics

With Big Tech carrying the market and margins under strain, this earnings season is less about surprises — and more about sounding believable

13.10.2025 10

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Trump and Xi haven’t even met yet. But their trade standoff has already begun

Both governments say they want to cool tensions. But the U.S. and China have spent the week quietly making it more expensive to do just that

11.10.2025 10

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Taco Bell is expanding its ‘luxe value’ test as fans call for a national launch

After debuting in Indianapolis, the five-item menu is expanding to Dayton, Ohio — a signal that the $3 experiment could soon be going nationwide

10.10.2025 2

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Nvidia stock gets a price target hike from one analyst as another says its AI wave is just getting started

Cantor’s $300 price hike and Morgan Stanley’s trillion-dollar forecast tell the same story: Nvidia is still running up the score in AI’s early innings

10.10.2025 2

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Even Tesla's biggest fan on Wall Street isn't impressed with Elon Musk's cheaper new car

Even Tesla’s biggest bull can’t spin this one: Elon Musk’s “affordable” EVs cost nearly $40,000 — cheaper on paper, not in practice

08.10.2025 3

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Is the AI boom actually a bubble? Here’s everything you need to know

AI and Big Tech companies are raking in record profits even as trillion-dollar bets outpace adoption. Is this a boom? Or a bubble waiting to burst? 

08.10.2025 3

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OpenAI adds a chip partner — and gets a little leverage

OpenAI’s six-gigawatt pact with AMD turns the perennial runner-up into a real contender — and could quietly rewrite AI’s hardware hierarchy

07.10.2025 2

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OpenAI has a billion-dollar hardware headache

OpenAI’s bid to build a palm-sized AI companion with Jony Ive is running into compute limits — and the harsh realities of hardware

06.10.2025 2

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Meta is trying to buy its way into the AI winner’s circle

The company is buying GPUs, data rights, chip startups, and political allies, betting that no one else can afford to match its pace in AI

06.10.2025 10

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A buzzy IPO market just got stuck in a government shutdown

The shutdown has frozen the IPO machine mid-revival, forcing high-profile deals onto ice and threatening to turn Q1 into an overcrowded restart

03.10.2025 2

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Tesla's deliveries blowout, a Cybertruck lawsuit, and shareholders push back: Tesla news roundup

Plus, Tesla CEO Elon Musk briefly becomes the world's first-half-trillionaire as the stock lifts his net worth to a new milestone

03.10.2025 8

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The jobs report is missing. What if it doesn’t come back?

A shutdown has paused the jobs report. Now, markets and the Federal Reserve are left with proxies and a bigger question: Is this the new normal?

02.10.2025 3

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When will the government reopen? What U.S. history tells us about the longest shutdowns

Markets predict the government shutdown will last weeks, not days. That would put it up against the longest and most costly closures in U.S. history

01.10.2025 4

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Nike earnings will 'signal a turning point' as a 'sleeping bear awakens,' Jefferies says

Nike's margins are still bruised and sales are shrinking, but analysts say the Swoosh is finally cleaning up shelves and regaining momentum

29.09.2025 10

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Does Amazon owe you money? Here’s how to check after its $2.5 billion settlement

The FTC forced Amazon into a $2.5 billion settlement over Prime signups and cancellations. Millions of users could see refunds — of up to $51

26.09.2025 2

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The $100,000 visa fee that could raise tuition costs

When full-pay international classmates start peeling off, the hidden subsidy under education cracks — and the tuition math shifts for everyone else

24.09.2025 2

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Robot umps make the big-league roster in 2026

Human umps stay behind the plate, but MLB will let players challenge balls and strikes with a Hawk-Eye review that hits the video board in seconds

24.09.2025 5

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