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The Big Mac Goes on Trial: The Antitrust Case That Decides Whether an Algorithm Can Set Your Lunch Price

The Big Mac Goes on Trial: The Antitrust Case That Decides Whether an Algorithm Can Set Your Lunch Price

The Big Mac Goes on Trial: The Antitrust Case That Decides Whether an Algorithm Can Set Your Lunch Price Published: October 12, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: business --- Here's a number…

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Nvidia Is in Talks to Buy the "American DeepSeek" — and a Delaware Lawsuit Just Showed Us the Playbook's Fine Print

Nvidia Is in Talks to Buy the "American DeepSeek" — and a Delaware Lawsuit Just Showed Us the Playbook's Fine Print

Nvidia wants to buy the "American DeepSeek." A Delaware courtroom just showed us what that kind of deal costs the people who built the technology. Both stories broke within a week of each other, and…

Oct 11, 2026

The Most Profitable Quarter in Tech History Just Happened — and the Stock Went Down

The Most Profitable Quarter in Tech History Just Happened — and the Stock Went Down

The Most Profitable Quarter in Tech History Just Happened — and the Stock Went Down Published: October 8, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: business --- Samsung Electronics just delivered the…

Oct 8, 2026

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Just Got a Green Card — With an Amazon Bouncer at the Door

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Just Got a Green Card — With an Amazon Bouncer at the Door

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Just Got a Green Card — With an Amazon Bouncer at the Door "Bring powerful coding and agentic capabilities to your enterprise." — Z.ai's own announcement, which is the most honest…

Oct 7, 2026

Accenture Just Posted the Best Day in Its History to Tell You AI Isn't Killing Consulting — It's Selling Shovels

Accenture Just Posted the Best Day in Its History to Tell You AI Isn't Killing Consulting — It's Selling Shovels

Accenture Just Posted the Best Day in Its History to Tell You AI Isn't Killing Consulting — It's Selling Shovels Published: October 2, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: business --- $22.2…

Oct 2, 2026

AMD Just Bought a Crystal Ball — and the Godmother of AI Came With It

AMD Just Bought a Crystal Ball — and the Godmother of AI Came With It

AMD Just Bought a Crystal Ball — and the Godmother of AI Came With It "Now that we have tangible proof of the possibilities, we want to do everything we can to accelerate the future. To do this…

Sep 28, 2026

R.I.P., Home Screen (2007–2026): The App Had a Good Run

R.I.P., Home Screen (2007–2026): The App Had a Good Run

R.I.P., Home Screen (2007–2026): The App Had a Good Run Ben Thompson's phone has 689 apps. He opens four. This week Stratechery declared the app a means, not an end — and argued that whoever owns the…

Sep 28, 2026

The Last Aisle: How Toys "R" Us Canada Went From 81 Stores to About 20 — and What Kids Lost

The Last Aisle: How Toys "R" Us Canada Went From 81 Stores to About 20 — and What Kids Lost

The giraffe is still standing. It's the stores that are disappearing. If you grew up anywhere near a Canadian suburb in the last forty years, you can probably still hum it: "I don't wanna grow up,…

Sep 27, 2026

Amazon Blocks Muse: When the King of E-Commerce Locked Out the Bot That Wants to Do Your Shopping

Amazon Blocks Muse: When the King of E-Commerce Locked Out the Bot That Wants to Do Your Shopping

Amazon Blocks Muse: When the King of E-Commerce Locked Out the Bot That Wants to Do Your Shopping Meta's newest AI agent rocketed to No. 1 in the App Store. Amazon slammed the door within two weeks.…

Sep 27, 2026

OpenAI's $1.5 Trillion Magic Trick: The IPO Vanished, and 'Safety' Appeared

OpenAI's $1.5 Trillion Magic Trick: The IPO Vanished, and 'Safety' Appeared

OpenAI's $1.5 Trillion Magic Trick: The IPO Vanished, and 'Safety' Appeared Published: September 17, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: Business --- This week, some of the richest investors on…

Sep 17, 2026

OpenAI Cut Prices 80% and Usage Jumped 10x. Do the Math Before You Cheer.

OpenAI Cut Prices 80% and Usage Jumped 10x. Do the Math Before You Cheer.

OpenAI Cut Prices 80% and Usage Jumped 10x. Do the Math Before You Cheer. Published: September 10, 2026 Reading Time: ~9 minutes Channel: business --- OpenAI just cut the price of its Luna model by…

Sep 10, 2026

Amazon Just Got Paid to Buy Qualcomm's Chips — And the Market Read the Press Release Instead of the 8-K

Amazon Just Got Paid to Buy Qualcomm's Chips — And the Market Read the Press Release Instead of the 8-K

Amazon Just Got Paid to Buy Qualcomm's Chips — And the Market Read the Press Release Instead of the 8-K Published: September 9, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: business --- Here's a number…

Sep 9, 2026

Broadcom Promised $230 Billion of AI Revenue by 2028. The Fine Print Says the Seller Is Also the Bank.

Broadcom Promised $230 Billion of AI Revenue by 2028. The Fine Print Says the Seller Is Also the Bank.

Broadcom Promised $230 Billion of AI Revenue by 2028. The Fine Print Says the Seller Is Also the Bank. Published: September 7, 2026 Reading Time: ~10 minutes Channel: Business --- Here's the stat…

Sep 7, 2026

The $798-an-Hour Question: Wall Street Just Told Big Law the AI Discount Is Due — And Your Industry Is Next

The $798-an-Hour Question: Wall Street Just Told Big Law the AI Discount Is Due — And Your Industry Is Next

The $798-an-Hour Question: Wall Street Just Told Big Law the AI Discount Is Due — And Your Industry Is Next Published: September 4, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: Business --- Three of the…

Sep 4, 2026

Shein Took a 73% Haircut to Go Public — And Three Days of Trading Say It Still Wasn't Cheap Enough

Shein Took a 73% Haircut to Go Public — And Three Days of Trading Say It Still Wasn't Cheap Enough

Shein Took a 73% Haircut to Go Public — And Three Days of Trading Say It Still Wasn't Cheap Enough Published: September 3, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: business --- Four years ago, Shein…

Sep 3, 2026

"Email Is Dead." She Bootstrapped Past the Rejections Anyway — Now Flodesk Does ~$3.1M a Month

"Email Is Dead." She Bootstrapped Past the Rejections Anyway — Now Flodesk Does ~$3.1M a Month

In 2018, investors told Rebecca Shostak that email was dying. Every door she knocked on stayed shut. Y Combinator — the accelerator that minted Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe — passed on her pitch. By…

Sep 2, 2026

ChatGPT Ads Hit a $1B Run Rate in 200 Days — Here's Exactly How OpenAI Sells, Renders, and Prices the Ads Google, Meta and Amazon Are Watching

ChatGPT Ads Hit a $1B Run Rate in 200 Days — Here's Exactly How OpenAI Sells, Renders, and Prices the Ads Google, Meta and Amazon Are Watching

ChatGPT Ads Hit a $1B Run Rate in 200 Days — Here's Exactly How OpenAI Sells, Renders, and Prices the Ads Google, Meta and Amazon Are Watching The scariest chart in advertising right now isn't a…

Sep 1, 2026

The Smartest Money in Fintech Just Looked Under PayPal's Hood and Walked — That's a $50 Billion Red Flag

The Smartest Money in Fintech Just Looked Under PayPal's Hood and Walked — That's a $50 Billion Red Flag

The Smartest Money in Fintech Just Looked Under PayPal's Hood and Walked — That's a $50 Billion Red Flag Published: August 28, 2026 Reading Time: ~11 minutes Channel: Business --- The most revealing…

Aug 28, 2026

The Man in the Leather Jacket Did It Again: Nvidia's $96 Billion Quarter, Explained

The Man in the Leather Jacket Did It Again: Nvidia's $96 Billion Quarter, Explained

The Man in the Leather Jacket Did It Again: Nvidia Just Dropped a $96 Billion Quarter Jensen Huang is the hero of today, and honestly — of this whole decade. Every few months the most anticipated…

Aug 26, 2026

WikiHow Sues OpenAI: The Expanding Battle Over AI Training Data and Copyright

WikiHow Sues OpenAI: The Expanding Battle Over AI Training Data and Copyright

WikiHow Sues OpenAI: The Expanding Battle Over AI Training Data and Copyright By Tony August 25, 2026 --- The copyright battlefield between AI companies and content publishers just got another major…

Aug 25, 2026

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