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Agents wrote more pull requests on GitHub than humans did in August, near 75 million a month. Two months earlier, Microsoft put Copilot on a meter.

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Paramount Skydance closed the Warner takeover carrying more than $80 billion of debt. Netflix lost the auction, but a rival that needs cash is also a seller. Its licensing pipeline runs straight to Netflix's 325 million subscribers.

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Shopify ran 12.6% higher in six sessions on the agent-commerce boom, but Piper's own expert puts agent-driven volume under 2% of merchandise volume. The November 3 print has to square that.

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Broadcom says Anthropic becomes its biggest chip customer in 2027, and its own filings show up to $42 billion of lending to make that happen. Marvell raised 2028 to $20 billion on the same demand. One forecast also signed the loan.

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Five days after Anthropic warned GLM-5.3's safeguards could be bypassed up to 100% of the time, AWS started selling the model on Bedrock. Amazon owns a fifth of Anthropic.

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Tingwei Sun, the broker charged over $2.5 billion of smuggled Supermicro servers, also incorporated Greg Lui's front company. The tie is a name in public records, not a charge.

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AMD's 12 gigawatts of OpenAI and Meta demand was bought with warrants for up to 320 million shares at a penny each, worth about $200 billion today. Nothing has vested yet; the first tranche lands when the first gigawatt ships this half.

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Korea's parliament counted a moving van: CXMT hired 27 Samsung and SK hynix veterans at up to double pay. Twenty-six of the 27 are already gone, after 2.9 years on average.

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Schneider is buying PTC with a $25 billion bridge loan, more than the whole deal, and no financing condition. The bill lands on its own shareholders, whose stock just fell 7 to 9 percent.

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The Energy Department is lending Vistra $4.2 billion for reactor upgrades that start construction this month. The NRC application that would let them run isn't due until 2029.

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NuScale sold $985 million of stock in six months and booked $75,000 in revenue. The money funds payments to ENTRA1, its exclusive partner, which has no obligation to buy anything.

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Mercor's trainers say approved work got hours cut after the fact. The reported $20 billion round would price exactly the payout line they're disputing.

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Intuitive Surgical is 35% off its high even though revenue grew 19% last quarter. The market is pricing the first real challenge to its robot surgery monopoly.

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Arkansas teachers' pension put $100 million into Digital Realty's new AI data center fund, which targets 9% to 11% a year. Jeff Olin rode the stock from $140 to $178 and sold it over the same risk.

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Mainland investors put HK$6 billion into Baidu in its first Stock Connect month, about 13 times the HK$450 million the company spent buying back its own stock.

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Amazon opened its sellers' back office to one outside AI, Claude, days after locking Meta out. And Amazon owns a $190.4bn stake in Claude's maker.

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ASML's stock sits 47.7% above its fair-value estimate on promises from Samsung, Intel and TSMC that came with no order counts. The tool that is actually sold out is the cheaper one. Q3 on 14 October gives the first count.

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Musk confirms TSMC talks on Terafab, but nothing is signed. The ownership split is the whole story: it decides who eats the $16.8 billion.

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Jane Street priced Etched at $21 billion and is the only customer Etched has named. Until a buyer with no equity signs, that $1 billion order book is the cap table.

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MACOM insiders sold 76 times since April and bought nothing. On the day Lou Basenese pitched the chipmaker on Fox Business, the stock jumped 5.9%.

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