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SpaceX Just Made $4.4 Billion in Three Months — and Its AI Arm Now Outsells Starlink
SpaceX posted $4.4bn net income on $14.6bn Q3 revenue, up 161%, as its AI segment overtook Starlink for the first time.
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- 01$1TChip Stocks Just Bled for Eight Straight Days — and $1 Trillion Went With ThemSemiconductors
- 02$219.5BA Santa Fe Jury Just Handed Meta a $219.5 Billion Math ProblemPrivacy
- 03$60BRamp Just Hit a $60 Billion Valuation — and $16 Billion of That Is Four Months OldFunding
- 04$54BMicron Made $54 Billion in 90 Days — and Still Can't Make Enough MemorySemiconductors
- 05$50BBroadcom Wants to Line Up $50 Billion in Debt So OpenAI Can Buy Chips From BroadcomAI
- 06$23.6BTSMC Just Made $23.6 Billion in Profit in Three Months — on the Day Asia's Chip Stocks Crashedbreaking
- 07$22.6BSchneider Electric Just Dropped $22.6 Billion on PTC — Its Biggest Bet Ever, and the Market FlinchedMergers & Acquisitions
- 08$16BTSMC's $16 Billion September Was Its Idea of a BreatherSemiconductors
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Claude's Newest Home Is a C$10 Billion Wind Bet on the Nova Scotia Coast
Anthropic signed a 20-year lease on the first phase of EverWind's C$10B Nova Scotia AI data centre — a 95MW, wind-tied bet on Cape Breton to run Claude.
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Gigabyte Just Dropped a $400 WOLED Gaming Monitor and It Changes Everything
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Airtable Was Worth $11.7 Billion. Bending Spoons Just Bought It for $1.285 Billion.
Bending Spoons is buying Airtable for $1.285 billion in all cash — about 89% below the productivity startup's $11.7B pandemic-era peak, and its first deal since going public.
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This Cancer-Prevention Vaccine Kept Every Patient Clear of Colon Cancer — and Just Raised $135 Million
Swiss biotech Nouscom raised €120M ($135M) on Oct 19, 2026 for a pivotal trial of NOUS-209, an off-the-shelf vaccine to prevent cancer in Lynch syndrome carriers.
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Jim Keller's Tenstorrent Just Raised $1.5 Billion to Take On Nvidia — and Its Valuation More Than Doubled
Jim Keller's AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E at a $6.2B valuation, more than double its 2024 price.
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Microsoft's New AI Chip Carries 288GB of Memory — and a Message for Nvidia
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, a custom AI chip with 288GB of HBM4 and 18 TB/s bandwidth, built to cut its inference bill and its reliance on Nvidia.
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TSMC Just Made $23.6 Billion in Profit in Three Months — on the Day Asia's Chip Stocks Crashed
TSMC posted a record $23.6bn quarterly profit, up 69% and above forecasts, hours after an 8% crash in Korean chip stocks.
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ASML Just Smashed Profit Forecasts With €5 Billion — and Says It Can't Build Chip Machines Fast Enough Until 2029
ASML posted €4.96bn Q3 profit vs ~€4.1bn expected, guided Q4 sales to €14.2–15.2bn and warned supply won't meet demand in 2027–28.
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From $2.7 Billion to a $20 Million Fire Sale: Character.AI Files for Bankruptcy
Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 and named Disney its $20M stalking-horse bidder — two years after Google valued its founders at $2.7B.
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Apple Just Put a $299 Screen on Your Kitchen Counter — and It Knows Whose Face It's Looking At
Apple unveiled HomeView, a $299 7-inch smart home display that recognises up to six faces, plus a new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2.
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A Beanie That Types Your Thoughts Just Raised $50 Million
Palo Alto startup Sabi raised a $50M seed led by Khosla Ventures for a non-invasive brain-reading cap that turns imagined words into text.
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FieldAI's "Robot Brain" Just Quintupled to a $10 Billion Price Tag
FieldAI's robot-control software is reportedly raising $700M at a $10B valuation — five times its worth a year ago, with zero hardware of its own.
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Meta Just Shipped Its First Frontier AI Model, Muse Wonder — and Priced It Like Claude Opus
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier AI models, with API pricing of $4/$20 per million tokens.