Prediction market traders are pricing the Paramount Warner Bros merger at roughly a one-in-four chance of collapse, with odds that the deal falls through nearly doubling since twelve state attorneys general filed suit to block it last month. On Kalshi, traders assign a 74% probability that Paramount Skydance completes its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by July 2027, leaving a 22% chance the deal fails by that date. The platform resolves its contracts from news reports, official press releases, and government filings. Polymarket, which settles using a consensus of reporting, puts the odds of no acquisition succeeding by 30 June…
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Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi spent a decade in corporate banking and fintech before moving to business journalism. She started in trade finance at a major UK bank, moved to a payments company scaling into African markets, and spent her last role leading partnerships at a cross-border remittance platform. She writes about business strategy, fintech, digital banking, and the corporate news that moves markets. She is interested in how companies actually make money rather than how they describe making money in investor presentations. Funke lives in South London. She reads earnings calls the way other people listen to podcasts, and finds them about as reliable.
Nvidia’s $1.5 billion SB Energy investment, announced on 17 August 2026, will make the chipmaker the sole supplier of compute infrastructure at the PORTS-Pike data centre near Cincinnati, Ohio, a facility that SB Energy will build, own, and operate under a 20-year lease to OpenAI. The equity stake is only part of the commitment. Nvidia has also agreed to provide up to $105 billion in credit support to help build the facility, with the campus designed to scale from an initial 4.25 gigawatts of IT load to 8 gigawatts. According to Nvidia’s 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission…
The Stripe OpenRouter acquisition has been finalised at a price exceeding $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, turning a startup that was valued at $1.3 billion just three months ago into one of the year’s largest AI deals. OpenRouter, co-founded in 2023 by Alex Atallah and Louis Vichy, operates as a routing layer for artificial intelligence: businesses use its platform to select from more than 400 models depending on the task at hand and what they can afford to spend. Atallah, who previously co-founded the NFT marketplace OpenSea, which was valued at $14 billion at its peak, pitched the company to…
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has reframed the debate around the AI trust crisis, arguing that public hostility towards artificial intelligence reflects decades of eroding confidence in corporations and governments rather than any particular executive’s messaging. The exchange, which played out on X in mid-August 2026, pits Amodei against Gavin Baker, the managing partner and chief investment officer at Atreides Management. Baker had argued, on the All-In podcast and subsequently on X, that Amodei’s public warnings about AI dangers have stoked a backlash in the United States, particularly against data centres. He urged Amodei to become ‘a more positive advocate…
Three top dividend stock picks from Wall Street analysts are drawing fresh attention this week, spanning downstream refining, oil exploration, and mineral royalties, as investors seek shelter from equity market volatility driven by geopolitical tensions and lingering questions about the AI rally’s durability. Why Top Dividend Stock Picks Are in Focus Now Each of these top dividend stock picks carries a buy rating from analysts tracked by TipRanks, and each is backed by improving cash generation rather than a payout ratio operating on hope. The three names are Phillips 66 (PSX), Crescent Energy (CRGY), and Viper Energy (VNOM). Phillips 66…
A Wyoming woman has become the latest plaintiff in the Grok CSAM lawsuit against xAI, alleging her stepfather used the chatbot to generate more than 7,000 explicit images derived from a photograph taken when she was 11 years old. The figure has not been independently established through a court ruling, Yahoo News notes, but the allegation deepens what is already one of the more consequential artificial-intelligence liability cases in the United States.The woman, identified in court filings as Jane Doe 4, joined a suit originally brought by three teenagers from Tennessee. Her stepfather was found dead of suicide two days…
The SpaceX Cursor acquisition is now complete, with the AI coding startup formally joining Elon Musk’s aerospace-turned-technology conglomerate and gaining what it called ‘access to the largest fleet of GPUs in the world.’ The deal had been telegraphed in stages. SpaceX and Cursor disclosed a partnership in April 2026, framed at the time as a collaboration with SpaceX’s AI segment, branded SpaceXAI, to accelerate Cursor’s model training. That agreement included an option for SpaceX to acquire Cursor outright for $60 billion. Two months later, as SpaceX completed its public listing, both companies confirmed they were exercising that option. The acquisition…
Berkshire Hathaway’s Alphabet stake now stands at roughly $36.6 billion, vaulting the Google parent to third place in Berkshire’s disclosed equity portfolio after the conglomerate added approximately 48.1 million shares during the second quarter of 2026. The position, revealed in Berkshire’s Q2 2026 13F filing on 14 August 2026, places Alphabet just ahead of Coca-Cola’s $35.1 billion holding but well behind Apple at $69.7 billion and American Express at $51.9 billion. It is, by some distance, the biggest new bet of the quarter. How the Berkshire Hathaway Alphabet Stake Was Built Roughly 60% of the newly acquired shares came directly…
The PayPal-Stripe-Advent deal that appeared dead in July is very much alive again, with people familiar with the matter telling the Wall Street Journal that an agreement could materialise within weeks. PayPal declined to comment. A Stripe spokesperson said the company does not ‘comment on rumors or speculation.’ The original approach, reported by the WSJ in July, saw Quartz and other outlets detail its terms: Stripe and private equity firm Advent International offered $60.50 a share, a 28% premium over PayPal’s closing price at the time, in a transaction that would have valued the company at $53 billion. The bid…
Marco Arment has launched Unforgetful, a new reminders app designed to make it structurally impossible to lose a task, and built as a direct response to his own lifelong struggles with forgetfulness. The app is available now on iOS and Mac, priced at $19.99 per year. Arment, the indie developer behind the Overcast podcast app and the read-later service Instapaper, has been public about what drives the product. In his announcement post, he disclosed that he has ADHD, and traced his difficulties with task management back to adolescence, when he was repeatedly told he was ‘lazy’ and ‘wasn’t living up…
