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America is building a soccer economy before it builds a soccer culture

Cities, sponsors, and leagues are treating the World Cup like a giant conversion funnel — before soccer has earned big-sport status here

04.04.2026 20

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Starbucks Bearista Cup frenzy sparks chaos as resales surge

Starbucks’ Bearista Cold Cup launch triggers chaos and resale markups, raising questions about hype-driven marketing

31.03.2026 10

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American companies can't stop buying Chinese AI

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

31.03.2026 30

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The first royal email was sent 50 years ago today. If only it were still so glamorous

The first royal email looked like a breakthrough. Today’s version looks like late-night replies and an inability to ever completely disconnect

26.03.2026 20

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Americans are still stuck in inflation's daily grind

Headline inflation has cooled, but rising prices are still forcing consumers to spend more carefully — and companies are adjusting

22.03.2026 20

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Micron’s blowout earnings revived an old Wall Street worry

The company posted record revenue, margins, and guidance, but Wall Street fixated on a capex hike that revived the chip industry’s oldest fear:...

19.03.2026 10

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The AI spending spree just keeps getting weirder

The binge has outgrown its data-center-only era, dragging turbines, pipelines, private credit, and anti-LLM moonshots into AI’s widening orbit

19.03.2026 30

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on what’s next for the AI boom

Huang’s GTC keynote pitched an AI economy built on inference, tokens, and agentic systems — with Nvidia selling the factory floor where all of...

16.03.2026 8

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Goldman Sachs says March oil has a $100 problem

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

13.03.2026 8

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Meta suffers another AI setback as it delays launching its latest model

Avocado was supposed to show that Meta’s superintelligence push was paying off. But now it’s late, and Gemini may fill the gap

13.03.2026 10

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Buc-ee’s built a cult following — and an ugly complaint record

New Better Business Bureau records show 33 Buc-ee’s locations with F ratings after 88 consumer complaints — and counting — went unanswered

12.03.2026 10

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SXSW puts AI onstage and business models under pressure

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...

12.03.2026 8

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Oracle eases Wall Street fears over AI spending

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

11.03.2026 8

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Larry Ellison says the AI 'SaaS-apocalypse' is real — but it won't hurt Oracle

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

11.03.2026 10

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Trump's sons tee up their latest drone deal

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

10.03.2026 10

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Meta's former AI chief raised $1 billion to prove chatbots wrong

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

10.03.2026 8

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The partial government shutdown is causing airport delays across the U.S.

Airport security lines are stretching for hours as unpaid TSA officers absorb the shutdown fallout just as spring-break traffic starts to surge

09.03.2026 6

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JPMorgan just put a 10% price tag on the Iran war

JPMorgan’s shifting tone suggests that Wall Street may be too relaxed about a war that’s quickly becoming an oil and inflation problem

09.03.2026 9

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The Dow is having its worst week since October. Gas prices are soaring. Welcome to war

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

06.03.2026 10

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Costco keeps printing money — in bulk

Sales jumped 9%, and membership fees rose 14% — another quarter where Costco turned traffic and subscriptions into the kind of steady growth most...

05.03.2026 10

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Greg Abel starts his Berkshire Hathaway era by buying Berkshire stock

The company resumed stock buybacks for the first time since 2024 as the new CEO said he and Warren Buffett still speak every day

05.03.2026 10

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The Dow plunges 750 points as higher oil prices keep inflation fears alive

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

05.03.2026 6

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Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon is surprised markets aren’t panicking more about Iran

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

04.03.2026 10

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Scott Bessent says Trump’s tariff rates are going back to where they are, and fast

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

04.03.2026 10

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S&P 500 gives back all its 2026 gains on war-risk math

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

03.03.2026 20

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George Washington University sold a campus to Amazon for $427 million. It’s becoming a data center

GWU’s Ashburn tech campus is headed for a second life as Amazon capacity, as the AI boom turns classrooms into compute

03.03.2026 20

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A ChatGPT boycott push has sent Anthropic’s Claude soaring

Anthropic drew red lines, OpenAI signed anyway, and the internet voted fast with downloads as Claude topped the App Store — then briefly crashed

02.03.2026 10

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Greg Abel isn’t reinventing Berkshire Hathaway after Warren Buffett. He’s betting he doesn’t need to

With earnings cooling and insurance turning, Berkshire's new CEO stakes his tenure on Berkshire's discipline — and on patience measured in decades

02.03.2026 30

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Netflix walks away from Warner Bros. — and investors love it

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

27.02.2026 10

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Wall Street analysts are staying bullish on Nvidia. Traders aren’t

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

27.02.2026 10

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Nvidia’s $78 billion forecast dares the market to flinch

A record quarter met a market priced for perfection, and Nvidia answered with revenue and a forecast that reset the AI math — again

26.02.2026 10

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Meta just signed a massive AMD chip deal as it diversifies beyond Nvidia

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

25.02.2026 10

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Nvidia is about to stress-test the AI boom

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

25.02.2026 10

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Microsoft is building its own AI model as it loosens ties to OpenAI

Microsoft is hedging its OpenAI bet by building its own models, chips, and leverage — so “Copilot everywhere” never depends on a single supplier

12.02.2026 30

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Elon Musk’s latest promises: Moon cities and space catapults

Musk pitched a lunar industry for AI — a moon supply chain and a mass-driver launcher — plus an X growth moonshot

12.02.2026 5

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Cloudflare stock rallies as Wall Street warms to its AI pitch

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

12.02.2026 10

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Amazon’s holiday quarter was big. Its AI budget is bigger

Amazon’s earnings showed momentum across AWS and ads. Then, the company dared AI-hungry investors to underwrite its $200 billion long game

06.02.2026 10

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Anthropic is going after ChatGPT in a buzzy new ad campaign

Claude’s Super Bowl swing turns therapy, homework, business, and fitness into ad breaks — a pointed jab as OpenAI tests ads in ChatGPT

05.02.2026 7

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Google blows nearly everything out of the water — including its AI budget

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...

05.02.2026 9

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Sorry, OpenAI. Google is winning the chatbot rat race

OpenAI has the breakout product, but Google owns the starting points — and Gemini is being wired into the internet’s routines before you notice

04.02.2026 10

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Grok heads to space — heaven help us all

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

03.02.2026 9

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Disney picks its parks chief to succeed Bob Iger as CEO

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

03.02.2026 7

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Palantir’s AI story finally looks like a business

Palatir delivered the kind of fourth-quarter profitability that tends to quiet the nice-demo crowd – for at least a few hours

03.02.2026 9

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Nvidia, Oracle, and how the AI boom is finding its limits

Nvidia tries to keep OpenAI rich without a $100 billion commitment, Oracle seeks $50 billion, and the boom keeps booming — for now

02.02.2026 7

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The big lessons from Big Tech's big earnings week

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

31.01.2026 10

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Apple's 'remarkable' record quarter shows the iPhone still beats AI fears

For a company that has spent the past year being asked whether its best days are behind it, the numbers arrived without any qualifiers

30.01.2026 8

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Tesla’s profit tanked — and its stock is climbing

Profit plunged and Tesla’s stock still popped after hours as investors priced robotaxis, energy momentum, and Elon Musk’s next AI wager

29.01.2026 10

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Meta crushed the quarter, then sounded a $135 billion alarm

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

29.01.2026 30

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Microsoft earnings show how high the AI bar has risen

Microsoft beat expectations and showed real AI demand, but Azure’s growth and a big infrastructure bill left investors looking at the payoff timeline

29.01.2026 7

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Is Apple the new Microsoft?

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

28.01.2026 10

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