Brian Boyle

brian@thedailyupside.com

Brian Boyle (he/him) is Lead Reporter at The Daily Upside. His writing has previously appeared in outlets such as Vice, Slate, and The Los Angeles Times, where he was a contributing writer on the opinion section. He lives in Los Angeles.

Autos

Building Batteries for Data Centers Re-Energizes Ford Stock

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In a note to clients on Tuesday Morgan Stanley analysts flagged Ford Energy as having the potential to be a $10 billion business.

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Consumer

Amazon, Walmart Wage Ultra-Fast Delivery War

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Both companies moved to expand their 30-minute-or-less ultra-fast delivery services across various US cities this past week.

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Semiconductors

Citrini Finds Upside for AI Power Player Wolfspeed

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In its Q3 earnings call earlier this month, Wolfspeed reported a net loss of roughly $120 million on revenue of around $150 million.

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Industrials

Is Boeing’s Massive China Order Finally Close to Landing?

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Boeing also said Tuesday that it it booked 136 orders and completed a lower-than-expected 47 deliveries in April.

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Real Estate

Seemingly Nothing Can Jumpstart The Housing Market

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Existing home sales inched up a lower-than-expected 0.2% in April, according to data released Monday by the National Association of Realtors.

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Enterprise AI

Corning Hits Record High After Signing Up AI Clients

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Corning, the company that invented Pyrex, is commanding Wall Street’s attention as a supplier of fiber optics for AI.

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Economics

Can Bitcoin Fix the US Housing Market? Fannie Mae Is Finding Out

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Fannie Mae is buying mortgages backed by cryptocurrency holdings. Is it the start of a housing renaissance or a new market crisis?

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Energy

Shell Pumps Out Banner Profits Despite Iran War’s Seismic Upheaval

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The boom was thanks in large part to the rapid price swings, which sparked huge demand from big buyers such as airlines and utilities players.

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Media & Entertainment

Wall Street Fetes D’Amaro Like a Disney Prince as Earnings Beat Buoys Stock Price

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Revenue in the Entertainment division climbed 10% to $11.7 billion, with its streaming unit reporting an 88% leap in operating income.This was Josh D’Amaro’s first earnings report as CEO, and the market treated it as a coronation.Disney shares…

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Consumer

Non-Alcoholic Beer Buoys Spirits for AB InBev Investors

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Shares of the beermaker soared after it reported modest sales growth in its most recent quarter on Tuesday driven by its NA beer labels.

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Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic, OpenAI Team with Private Equity to Rev Up AI Adoption

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OpenAI’s joint venture with private equity giants will turn some 2,000 portfolio companies into potential AI adopters.

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Technology

SoftBank Maps Out $100 Billion Robotics Spinoff

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Softbank is planning to bundle a bouquet of existing bets together into a new venture at the intersection of AI and robotics.

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Finance

Berkshire’s Annual Meeting Shines Spotlight on Buffett Successor Greg Abel

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Class B shares of the company have lagged the S&P 500 by 37 percentage points in the past 12 months, the worst such stretch since 2000.

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Technology

Can Robotaxis Take Over New York?

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Tesla and Waymo are among the entrants trying to turn congested New York City, the home of the yellow cab, into a robotaxi hub.

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Social Media

Can Reddit Provide a Human-Centric Haven from AI Chatbots?

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In our increasingly artificial digital age, sometimes internet denizens desire an actual human touch. Enter Reddit.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can OpenAI Recover From Botched GPT-5 Rollout?

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Where recent iterations of ChatGPT allowed users to tinker with various settings, GPT-5 attempted to do the tinkering for the user.

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Industrials

China Recreates a Shipbuilding Dreadnought

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To the extent they ever really were, China’s two major state-owned shipmakers will no longer be ships that pass in the night.

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Media & Entertainment

Paramount Ponies Up $7.7 Billion to Win UFC Rights

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Inflation & Prices

Consumers Aren’t Yet Bearing the Brunt of Inflation, Goldman Warns

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The laws of business gravity say that when costs go up, those costs will, eventually, trickle down to the consumer.

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Industrials

Spacecraft-Maker Firefly Shoots for the Moon in Nasdaq Debut

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Just a week after Figma’s successful market debut, Firefly Aerospace saw its stock pop more than 34% after listing on the Nasdaq on Thursday.

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