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Meta's $18 Billion Settlement Comes With A Condition Attached To Its Rivals

Sep 3, 2026

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Meta's $18 Billion Settlement Comes With A Condition Attached To Its Rivals

Nearly a third of the money is only paid if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same restrictions, which turns a penalty into leverage.

Gerelyn Terzo
Gerelyn Terzo
Nvidia Reportedly Pays $12.9 Billion For A Company Earning $150 Million

Sep 1, 2026

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Nvidia Reportedly Pays $12.9 Billion For A Company Earning $150 Million

The price works out to roughly 86 times revenue, which only makes sense if what is being bought is a position rather than a business.

Gerelyn Terzo
Gerelyn Terzo
Alibaba Opens Its First Brazilian Data Centers And Sells Local Soil As The Feature

Aug 31, 2026

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Alibaba Opens Its First Brazilian Data Centers And Sells Local Soil As The Feature

Running data inside the country is the pitch, but where servers sit and which government can reach them are two separate questions.

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Gerelyn Terzo
Google Gets Paid In Stock For Buying Chips

Aug 29, 2026

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Google Gets Paid In Stock For Buying Chips

The number attached to this deal is $120 billion, but Google never promised to spend it, and that asymmetry is the whole structure.

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Gerelyn Terzo
The AI Boom's Quietest Winner Just Paid $1.75 Billion For Switchgear

Aug 27, 2026

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The AI Boom's Quietest Winner Just Paid $1.75 Billion For Switchgear

Chips get the attention, but the equipment that actually moves electricity into a building has become the scarce thing, and companies are now buying it by the factory.

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Gerelyn Terzo
One Customer Ran The Chip, And The Company's Value Doubled In A Month

Aug 25, 2026

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One Customer Ran The Chip, And The Company's Value Doubled In A Month

The startup already had the money, the design, and the orders; what it lacked was proof that anyone would actually plug the thing in.

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Gerelyn Terzo
The First Humanoid Robot Company To Go Public Just Set The Price For Everyone

Aug 24, 2026

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The First Humanoid Robot Company To Go Public Just Set The Price For Everyone

Until this week the whole industry was valued on private guesses, and the market's first real answer was six times what the bankers asked.

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Gerelyn Terzo
China's Biggest Chipmaker Is Raising Prices And Says They Are Still Too Low

Aug 22, 2026

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China's Biggest Chipmaker Is Raising Prices And Says They Are Still Too Low

When a factory runs at 94 percent capacity and orders keep arriving, the customer stops being the one who sets the price.

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Gerelyn Terzo
IBM's Answer To The AI Bottleneck Is Not A Model, It Is Consultants

Aug 20, 2026

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IBM's Answer To The AI Bottleneck Is Not A Model, It Is Consultants

Companies already believe the models work; what they lack is anyone who can install them, and that gap is what IBM is selling.

Gerelyn Terzo
Gerelyn Terzo
Uber Plans 2,000 Robotaxis In Europe Without Buying A Single Car

Aug 18, 2026

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Uber Plans 2,000 Robotaxis In Europe Without Buying A Single Car

The deal splits a robotaxi business into three separate jobs, so no single company has to carry the cost of the whole thing.

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Gerelyn Terzo
Stripe Pays $7 Billion For The Toll Booth Between Apps And AI Models

Aug 17, 2026

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Stripe Pays $7 Billion For The Toll Booth Between Apps And AI Models

A payments company just bought the layer where AI usage gets counted, which is the same thing as buying the meter before the billing starts.

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Gerelyn Terzo
CoreWeave Finds A Way Into The Government's Classified AI Work

Aug 15, 2026

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CoreWeave Finds A Way Into The Government's Classified AI Work

A cloud company that leans on a handful of enormous customers just borrowed a defense contractor's security clearances to reach a very different kind of buyer.

Gerelyn Terzo
Gerelyn Terzo
An AI Company Goes Public To Buy The Call Centers It Wants To Replace

Aug 13, 2026

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An AI Company Goes Public To Buy The Call Centers It Wants To Replace

The plan is not just to sell software to outsourcing firms, but to buy them and swap their workers for AI, and a $34 million company is raising public money to try.

Gerelyn Terzo
Gerelyn Terzo
Apple Goes To Court To Stall OpenAI's First Device

Aug 11, 2026

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Apple Goes To Court To Stall OpenAI's First Device

When a rival hires away your people to build hardware, a trade-secrets suit becomes a way to slow the product before it ever ships.

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Gerelyn Terzo
SpaceX Now Makes More Money Renting Out Computers Than Launching Rockets' Growth

Aug 10, 2026

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SpaceX Now Makes More Money Renting Out Computers Than Launching Rockets' Growth

A rocket company's first earnings report reveals it is quietly becoming a cloud provider, and spending like one.

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Gerelyn Terzo
Samsung Lands A $200 Billion Chip Deal Aimed At TSMC's Crown

Aug 8, 2026

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Samsung Lands A $200 Billion Chip Deal Aimed At TSMC's Crown

Winning one giant customer is how a second-place chipmaker convinces the next ten that it can be trusted with the hardest work in the industry.

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Gerelyn Terzo
Qualcomm Buys The Software That Lets AI Skip Nvidia's Chips

Aug 6, 2026

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Qualcomm Buys The Software That Lets AI Skip Nvidia's Chips

The hardest thing to copy about Nvidia was never the chip; it was the software everyone already knows how to use, and that is what Qualcomm just went after.

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Gerelyn Terzo
Tech's Biggest Rivals Team Up After An AI Agent Hacks On Its Own

Aug 4, 2026

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Tech's Biggest Rivals Team Up After An AI Agent Hacks On Its Own

The first AI that carried out a real cyberattack without human hands did something no warning had: it put competitors on the same side.

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Gerelyn Terzo
Nvidia Bets $1B On A Korean AI Factory

Aug 3, 2026

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Nvidia Bets $1B On A Korean AI Factory

The chipmaker is no longer just selling hardware to national AI projects; it is buying equity in the companies that build them.

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Gerelyn Terzo
Nvidia Pays Billions To Peek Inside An AI Lab

Aug 1, 2026

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Nvidia Pays Billions To Peek Inside An AI Lab

The startup has no product and no revenue, so what Nvidia is really buying is a seat next to the research and the chips that run it.

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Gerelyn Terzo
Apple Shifts The iPhone To A Lease Model

Jul 30, 2026

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Apple Shifts The iPhone To A Lease Model

The shift from selling a device once to renting it every month is a quieter change than a new phone, and a more durable one.

Gerelyn Terzo
Gerelyn Terzo
What Oracle's $7B Pentagon deal means for cloud

Jul 28, 2026

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What Oracle's $7B Pentagon deal means for cloud

The contract is less about new technology than about becoming the single door the entire U.S. military walks through to buy it.

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Gerelyn Terzo
Databricks Bets Its Own Business On The Product It Sells

Jul 27, 2026

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Databricks Bets Its Own Business On The Product It Sells

The clearest signal in an enterprise software deal is usually the vendor agreeing to run on the platform it asks customers to trust.

Gerelyn Terzo
Gerelyn Terzo
AMD Puts The First 2 Nanometer Server Chip Into Production

Jul 25, 2026

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AMD Puts The First 2 Nanometer Server Chip Into Production

The chip does more work per watt, the exact limit AI data centers hit first.

Gerelyn Terzo
Gerelyn Terzo
Micron’s $250B Chip Bet Shows Where AI Spending Is Moving Next

Jul 23, 2026

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Micron’s $250B Chip Bet Shows Where AI Spending Is Moving Next

The memory giant is expanding U.S. manufacturing as demand shifts beyond AI processors.

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