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Dylan Sloan

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MedMen’s spectacular collapse is complete: Just five years after earning a whopping $3 billion valuation, the one-time legal cannabis darling has declared bankruptcy

“MedMen has been ‘DeadMen’ to most investors for a long time,” one industry analyst told Fortune.

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Meta’s investors are worried about the billions it’s spending on AI—but its advertising empire makes it a positive, Deutsche Bank says

Investors balk at $40 billion in spending, sending stock falling—but analysts say Meta’s advertising advantage is a perfect use case for AI.

26.04.2024 6

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Biden bets big on Idaho chips—of the semiconductor variety

Biden administration announces $6.1 billion Chips Act grant for Boise-based semiconductor maker Micron.

25.04.2024 5

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GM is on the rise—but for now, EVs are holding it back, not leading the charge

Strong quarterly earnings are countered by continued losses on EV production, but GM says its EVs will be profitable by as soon as later this year.

24.04.2024 4

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Here’s who might buy TikTok as a Senate ban-or-divest order appears all but certain

The TikTok divestment bill was bundled into a massive $95 billion aid package, which helped fast-track it through Congress.

23.04.2024 3

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman is funding a green-energy moonshot as AI’s power demands grow to “insatiable” levels

Altman leads $20 million funding round for solar startup Exowatt, which aims to generate nearly unlimited and nearly free power.

22.04.2024 10

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There’s an early winner in the race to feed AI’s infrastructure demands: private equity

Firms plow tens of billions into data centers and energy projects: “The amount of money that’s being invested in this area is breathtaking.”

19.04.2024 10

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Taiwan’s surging energy prices are a warning for power-hungry American AI companies—and a boon for the biggest chip manufacturer

TSMC beats expectations on earnings, but stock falls anyways because investors had the company “priced for perfection.”

19.04.2024 9

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This $362 billion 'beyond well-positioned' Dutch company is quietly winning the global AI chips race

ASML has a monopoly on advanced semiconductor manufacturing tools, and it’s poised to gain from CHIPS Act investment.

18.04.2024 10

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The cost of buying a used electric car is plummeting—and that’s great news for mass adoption, but bad news if you already bought one

EV prices are cheaper than ever, opening the market up for budget buyers but costing EV owners thousands in lost resale value.

17.04.2024 10

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Cheap electric cars are finally here—but price cuts won’t translate to more sales until infrastructure catches up

Would-be buyers of sub-$10,000 used EVs are limited by access to public chargers.

16.04.2024 6

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Gen AI speech and video platforms grapple with a flood of user-generated content: ‘This will be used by bad people to do bad things, that’s for sure’

CEOs advocate for mandatory AI disclosures and limits on impersonation at Brainstorm AI conference.

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March Madness was a huge payday for legal online sportsbooks—but even more so for illegal platforms, which attracted $4.3 billion in bets

Surge in online sports betting popularity has generated a troubling increase in unlicensed betting, study finds.

12.04.2024 7

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Meta and Google announce new in-house AI chips, creating a “trillion-dollar question” for Nvidia

Nvidia still dominates the AI hardware sector, but the potential success of Big Tech companies’ native chips poses a threat.

11.04.2024 7

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Semiconductor giant TSMC is riding high after a 16% sales boost and $6 billion grant. Its unique model is what brought it to market dominance

AI is sending semiconductor stocks soaring, and TSMC, the world’s largest chipmaker, is poised to gain.

10.04.2024 9

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Engineers at Baltimore’s fallen port are working so diligently, they expect to restore service months earlier than expected

Experts initially feared months-long shutdowns and supply-chain disruptions.

10.04.2024 10

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Water-guzzling chipmaker TSMC and drought-plagued Arizona are an unlikely pair, but Phoenix says it has enough water

Commerce Department issued a $6.6 billion grant to the Taiwanese chipmaker to build new fabrication facilities in drought-prone Arizona.

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Regulators halt a controversial climate rule after being pelted by 10 legal challenges over it

SEC issues stay on watered-down climate rule as legal challenges work through the courts, but effects on reporting companies won’t change much in...

05.04.2024 4

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‘Craziest talent war I’ve ever seen:’ Elon Musk says AI is hitting a new frenzy—and he helped set it off 11 years ago with Larry Page and Sam Altman

In 2015, Musk stole one of Google founder Page’s best AI minds: Ilya Sutskever, the man who’d one day lead a failed coup against Sam Altman.

05.04.2024 5

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SEC commissioner lets rip on chairman Gary Gensler’s leadership for ‘stilted communication’

Former SEC official criticizes speech: “If that speech had to be transparent in the way SEC filings have to be, she’d be subject to SEC...

04.04.2024 7

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Texas avian flu outbreak spreads from cows to humans and chickens, but is ‘a very, very small part of the overall picture,’ state agriculture boss says

Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says mass infection is unlikely—but stay away from unpasteurized milk

03.04.2024 10

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Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark, who’s never had a full-time job, is worth over $3 million—and she’s changing the financial playbook for college athletes

A WNBA contract and lucrative endorsement deals will result in a multimillion-dollar windfall for Clark once she finishes her college career.

02.04.2024 6

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Is AI the new crypto? DeepMind co-founder says 'hype' and 'grifting' threaten the emerging sector

Surge in venture funding and public excitement has DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis drawing crypto parallels.

01.04.2024 6

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Ford is slashing two-thirds of the employees at its F-150 Lightning plant as its ambitious electric-car plans sputter

Ford is redirecting production from EVs to hybrids as it seeks to keep sales up and comply with the new EPA emissions rule.

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Prop bets helped fuel the $11 billion sports gambling boom—but the NCAA president wants them gone

NCAA President Charlie Baker wants to ban prop bets, which could have unintended consequences.

29.03.2024 6

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USDA identifies ‘rapidly evolving’ cattle virus as avian flu, another blow to Texas panhandle cattle ranchers battered by wildfires

A mysterious virus infecting cows in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico has been identified after weeks of uncertainty, and it shouldn’t affect the dairy...

27.03.2024 9

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Wall Street giant Larry Fink says younger generations don’t trust older ones, and they’re completely justified

Fink thinks Gen Z and millennials believe the boomers focused on their own financial well-being before all else. "And in the case of retirement,...

26.03.2024 8

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Jerry Levin, known as the CEO who pushed for the ‘worst merger in corporate history,’ is less known for falling on his sword for the $350 billion deal later in life

The former AOL Time Warner CEO, who died last week, leaves behind a complicated legacy.

26.03.2024 6

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Florida’s insurers are profitable after 7 straight years of losses—but it’s mostly because of dumb luck

Mild hurricane season hands Florida’s property insurers their first positive returns in nearly a decade.

25.03.2024 4

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Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani is entangled in a bizarre $4.5 million gambling scandal involving his interpreter

Months after inking a $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Ohtani’s season is off to a strange start.

21.03.2024 10

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EPA inks ‘single most important climate regulation in the history of the country’

Final rule buys carmakers more time to transition to EV production, but environmental groups are still heralding it as a win.

20.03.2024 7

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Intel wins $19.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding as ‘historic’ semiconductor spending spree heats up

Commerce Department announces largest grant to date, and says there’s more coming soon.

20.03.2024 7

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A brokerage app hired an army of 1,700 influencers and misled investors on social media, regulators say—and it just got slammed with a massive fine

This is the first time FINRA has levied enforcement against a company for its social media influencer strategy.

19.03.2024 10

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Tesla gets a new edge in India’s $151 billion auto market

India opens door for foreign EV sellers with new tax cuts, but rules won’t hurt domestic giants in the short term.

18.03.2024 5

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Trump official and Goldman Sachs alum Steve Mnuchin plots to buy TikTok as Gen Z panics about a possible ban

From (kind of) funding Avatar to rescuing beleaguered regional banks, Steve Mnuchin’s consequential career is taking another turn.

16.03.2024 5

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SEC chief Gary Gensler is getting hit from all sides on his new climate rule: Conservative AGs smell blood, while environmentalists say it doesn't go far enough

It took the SEC two years to get a controversial climate rule passed, and two hours for opponents to challenge it in court.

15.03.2024 10

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Fed yanks an emergency funding crutch that got too popular at the worst possible time for small banks

Commercial real-estate problems and high interest rates could create a "too many to fail" scenario for regional lenders, finance professor says.

14.03.2024 10

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Elon Musk is letting Tesla loyalists cut the line and buy Cybertrucks before everyone else

Tesla shareholders (or HODLers) with at least $40,000 in stock are eligible for the new program.

13.03.2024 3

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Inflation is now ‘moving more sideways than down’—and it could keep the Fed from cutting rates anytime soon 

Rent, gas prices drive up headline number, but investors still hopeful for interest-rate relief starting in June.

12.03.2024 10

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China is sending a harsh message to its struggling property developers: ‘They will be made to pay the due price’

Struggling $5 trillion real estate sector shouldn’t expect any government bailouts, says housing minister.

11.03.2024 5

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The potential accounting crisis everybody seems to ignore, and the regulator fighting to fix it

PCAOB chair Erica Williams is on a crusade to make sure investors know about the dangers of poor audit quality. Will they listen?

09.03.2024 7

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Jerome Powell says ‘the housing market is in a very challenging situation right now’ and interest rate cuts alone won’t solve a long-running inventory crisis

Even once the current problems dissipate, the Fed chair said, "we’ll still be left with a housing market nationally, where there is a housing...

08.03.2024 8

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Dartmouth men’s basketball team votes to unionize, a first in college sports—but it’s “almost inevitable” the NCAA will fight back

Ivy League team voted to join union 13-2, pushing question of compensation for college athletes into new territory.

05.03.2024 3

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Senator Josh Hawley suggests a whopping 40-fold tariff increase on Chinese-made electric cars to fend off ‘an existential threat’ to American automakers

EV import duty would be among the highest of any good—but would it even bring prices down enough?

29.02.2024 10

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Meet the asset managers who smell value in the commercial real estate crisis

Fed policy could be the key for the struggling sector: “Things are going to get better when interest rates come down.”

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Electrical transformers are the giant bottleneck waiting for the AI industry: ‘It's going to take several years’

There’s more to this supply shortage than meets the eye.

28.02.2024 9

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Jamie Dimon isn’t sold on his billionaire peers’ fears about commercial real estate crisis: ‘most people will be able to muddle through this’

The dean of Wall Street CEOs thinks the uptick in defaults is normalization, not cause for panic, and there’s one big exception that proves the...

27.02.2024 8

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The ‘prophet of urban doom’ says a 1970s-style 'doom loop' is here for New York City, and it's just the first inning of the ballgame

“Over the next three to five years, we’re really going to start seeing this," says Columbia's Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. "This cycle is out of...

25.02.2024 10

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CRE vet who advised on $8 billion of deals says 30% of office buildings are ‘basically worth nothing’ and ‘just have to be torn down’

“It’s the most adaptable that survives,” says housing analyst Fred Cordova, who sees a lot of demolition ahead.

25.02.2024 10

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Nvidia shatters stock market record by adding $230 billion in value in one day. Here’s why it's dominating the AI chip race

CEO Jensen Huang says early bets on AI made Nvidia “the only company that got it,” and competitors are racing to catch up.

22.02.2024 5

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