HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter. And the company…
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Workday’s stock slumps again on weak guidance and AI disruption fears
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Shares of Workday Inc. got hammered in late trading today after the company offered weak guidance for the current quarter. It was the worst possible news for investors amid growing concerns over the existential threat it faces from the rise of artificial …
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s Board Says Paramount Skydance’s New $110.9 Billion Bid Might be ‘Superior’ to Netflix Deal
Erik Gruenwedel / mediaplaynews - Warner Bros. Discovery Feb. 24 announced that its board of directors, following consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, has determined that Paramount Skydance adding $2.48 billion in cash to its current $108.4 billion bid might lea…
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Fintech giant Stripe circles possible PayPal acquisition: Bloomberg
RT Watson / theblock - Founded in the 1990s, PayPal is considered a pioneer in facilitating internet payments and normalizing digital wallets.
- Live rumor: Stripe in talks to buy PayPal (5)
- Other: non-deal Stripe coverage (1)
- Payments shakeup: merger would reorder the industry (1)
- Stablecoins and crypto: implications of a Stripe-PayPal tie-up (3)
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Live rumor: Stripe in talks to buy PayPal
Other: non-deal Stripe coverage
Payments shakeup: merger would reorder the industry
Stablecoins and crypto: implications of a Stripe-PayPal tie-up
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Apple Shareholders Approve Executive Pay Packages, Reject China Audit
iclarified - Apple shareholders voted to approve the company's executive pay packages and rejected an independent audit of its operations in China during the company's annual virtual meeting on Tuesday, according to preliminary tallies shared during the proceedings.Co…
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WisdomTree Gets SEC Nod to Enable Instant Settlement for Tokenized Money Market Fund
André Beganski / decrypt - WisdomTree is enabling instant settlement for its tokenized money market fund, indicating its product won't be limited by Wall Street’s pace.
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How an AI doomsday Substack post caused a mini market crash
Catherine Baab / qz - After a Substack post laid out a striking economic warning, major indexes and a handful of individual stocks sank. The response was telling
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Stripe Reaches Record Valuation as Global Volume Hits $1.9 Trillion
PYMNTS / pymnts - Stripe was valued at $159 billion in a tender offer designed to provide liquidity to current and former employees, the programmable financial services company said in a Tuesday (Feb. 24) update. The figure is up from the $106.7 billion valuation the compa…
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Hong Kong's RedotPay said to plan blockbuster $1 billion IPO in New York: Bloomberg
Omkar Godbole / coindesk - The stablecoin payments company has hired JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Jefferies, according to Bloomberg.
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Bitcoin is crashing for 3 reasons today. They have more to do with the state of the world than the crypto market
Michael Grothaus / fastcompany - It’s another bad day for Bitcoin. Over the past 24 hours, the digital token has declined nearly 4.5%, putting it just above $63,000 and within range of its 52-week low. But this time, Bitcoin’s fall seems to have nothing to do with the token itself—or the…
- Buyers, treasuries and narratives: accumulation reshapes BTC supply (4)
- Liquidations loom as traders fear full-blown capitulation (5)
- Macro shocks force widespread de-risking of volatile assets (3)
- OTHER — market breadth and altcoin pressure (3)
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Buyers, treasuries and narratives: accumulation reshapes BTC supply
Liquidations loom as traders fear full-blown capitulation
Macro shocks force widespread de-risking of volatile assets
OTHER — market breadth and altcoin pressure
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Stocks fall on US tariff uncertainty
J.D. Capelouto / semafor - “Uncertainty is back,” one banker told the Financial Times.
- Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite (3)
- Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling (8)
- Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff (12)
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Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite
Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling
Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff
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IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization
msmash / slashdot - IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an es…
- Anthropic's Claude Code technical claims (2)
- Developer reaction: COBOL community responds (1)
- Market panic: IBM shares tumble (6)
- Sector ripple: consulting and crypto wobble (2)
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Anthropic's Claude Code technical claims
Developer reaction: COBOL community responds
Market panic: IBM shares tumble
Sector ripple: consulting and crypto wobble
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PayPal Attracts Takeover Interest After Stock Slump
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: PayPal, the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped out almost half of its value, according to people familiar with the matter. The San Jose, California…
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Strategy (MSTR) Stock: 100th Bitcoin Purchase Brings Holdings to 717,722 BTC
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Strategy made its 100th Bitcoin purchase since adopting its BTC treasury strategy in August 2020. The company bought 592 BTC for ~$39.8 million at an average price of $67,286 per coin. Total holdings now stand at 717,722 BTC, acquired at a total cost…
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ASML Boosts EUV Power to 1,000W for Better Yields and Lower Chip Costs
techpowerup - ASML says it has boosted the light source power in its EUV lithography systems to 1,000 watts, up from roughly 600 W today. According to a Reuters report, the company claims the increase could enable up to 50% more chip output by the end of the decade. Mo…
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IQM is going public at a $1.8B valuation. Could this be Europe’s first quantum IPO?
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Classical computers struggle to handle complex simulations in drug discovery, materials science, and optimisation because quantum physics demands…
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Arcellx (ACLX) Stock Jumps 78% as Gilead Agrees to $7.8B Acquisition
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Gilead Sciences is acquiring Arcellx for $7.8 billion, paying $115 per share in cash plus a $5 contingent value right Arcellx stock jumped over 78% in premarket trading Monday following the announcement The deal centers on anito-cel, a CAR-T cell the…
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Anthropic released Claude Code Security as research preview
Erin / testingcatalog - What's new? Anthropic introduced Claude Code Security for security teams and maintainers to spot code gaps; it uses Claude Opus 4.6 with layered checks and patch proposals;
- Developer ecosystem — Claude expands into tools: compilers, IDEs, PowerPoint (7)
- Market reaction — Traders dump cybersecurity stocks after Anthropic demo (4)
- Pentagon friction — Defense confronts Anthropic over safeguards and military use (2)
- Security risks — Vulnerability scanning raises misuse and real-world exploit concerns (2)
Developer ecosystem — Claude expands into tools: compilers, IDEs, PowerPoint
Market reaction — Traders dump cybersecurity stocks after Anthropic demo
Pentagon friction — Defense confronts Anthropic over safeguards and military use
Security risks — Vulnerability scanning raises misuse and real-world exploit concerns
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Spot bitcoin ETFs notch five straight weeks of outflows for first time since March 2025
Zack Abrams / theblock - U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded about $316 million in net outflows during the holiday-shortened Presidents' Day trading week.
- Broader ETF and industry developments (4)
- Miners liquidate treasuries; states and firms reposition holdings (4)
- On the trading floor: Spot ETFs hemorrhage cash, five weeks (7)
- Retail panic and whale selling trigger liquidations, market wobble (10)
Broader ETF and industry developments
Miners liquidate treasuries; states and firms reposition holdings
On the trading floor: Spot ETFs hemorrhage cash, five weeks
Retail panic and whale selling trigger liquidations, market wobble
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OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030
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- AI compute demand shakes chipmakers, data-center financings and stocks (5)
- Altman defends AI energy use, mocks space data-centers claim (7)
- ChatGPT ads, pricing shifts, usage trends and safety issues (6)
- OpenAI warns $600B compute bill, revenue and accounting questions (8)
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AI compute demand shakes chipmakers, data-center financings and stocks
Altman defends AI energy use, mocks space data-centers claim
ChatGPT ads, pricing shifts, usage trends and safety issues
OpenAI warns $600B compute bill, revenue and accounting questions
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