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Lyft enters deal with Tensor Auto to roll out a fleet of AVs

Lyft, Inc. (LYFT) is partnering with autonomous vehicle maker Tensor Auto to add hundreds of robotaxis to its fleet in North America and Europe beginning in 2027.
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Intel finally releases a new 18A chip, but will it be enough to spark a turnaround?

News of the 18A launch did not appear to excite too many investors as Intel’s stock was only able to gain nearly 1% on Thursday
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Ken Griffin sounds alarm on de-dollarization as critics say U.S. is becoming a “third world country”

Investors are quietly hedging against U.S. sovereign risk as America’s debt, inflation, and political dysfunction fuel fears of a fiscal reckoning
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IREN surges on new multi-year AI cloud contracts and then sinks on convertible note offering

IREN (IREN) said this week that it had secured new multi-year AI cloud contracts for Nvidia Blackwell GPU deployments
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Coinbase seeks national trust charter but ‘has no intention of becoming a bank’

Coinbase (COIN) plans to apply for a national trust company charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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Archer’s stock tanks after a rumored partnership with Tesla never came to pass

Angry investors call out ‘misleading’ promotion from Archer Aviation (ACHR)
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Netflix faces PR backlash as 'cancel Netflix' searches break Google

As Elon Musk calls for a boycott, Google searches to “cancel Netflix” hit record highs, but with the streamer no longer reporting subscriber counts, the real impact may remain hidden
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“Freight recession shows no end in sight” — Truck sales collapse as economy sends mixed signals

Heavy truck sales have plunged to recessionary levels even as U.S. GDP growth accelerates, exposing a widening divide between freight and the broader economy
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Desperate home sellers slash prices at near record pace as buyers stay away

Despite easing mortgage rates, one in six U.S. home sellers cut their asking price in August, the highest level for any August on record
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Qualcomm’s expansion beyond smartphones continues with Arduino acquisition

Qualcomm announced that it has acquired Arduino, a nonprofit Italian open-source hardware and software platform that includes a community of more than 33 million developers
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AST SpaceMobile gets downgraded with a Sell as analyst warns of ‘painful corrections’

AST SpaceMobile’s (ASTS) stock has been on a tear this year, soaring 254% on hopes its satellites will connect cell phones directly to broadband.
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CoreWeave acquires UK startup Monolith to service industrial and manufacturing enterprises

On a day when it seemed as though all of Wall Street was buzzing about the multibillion partnership between OpenAI and AMD (AMD), AI hyperscaler CoreWeave (CRWV) also announced a deal
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Galaxy Digital’s new investor app puts it in competition with Robinhood

After having built its name in the institutional crypto space, this is Galaxy’s (GLXY) first move into consumer finance
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Nuclear stocks continue to soar but experts are now urging caution

The booming investor appetite for nuclear energy stocks is perhaps best reflected in the meteoric rise of shares in small modular reactor (SMR) startup Oklo, Inc. (OKLO).
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OpenAI’s $6.6 billion employee windfall could shake San Francisco’s housing market

A $500 billion valuation and massive secondary share sales have handed OpenAI’s workers enough liquidity to buy every home sold in San Francisco last year
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Rupee’s day of reckoning: Trade war, outflows push currency to the brink

Trade deficits, foreign outflows, and Trump’s tariffs converge to test RBI’s restraint
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Does Nvidia owe most of its success to ChatGPT?

Nvidia’s exponential revenue growth didn’t happen by accident. It exploded only after ChatGPT sparked a global race to build AI infrastructure.
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DoorDash gets into the robotic delivery game with the launch of Dot

DoorDash will initially offer the services in Tempe and Mesa, Arizona before expanding the commercial deployment into other US markets.
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