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- latest 10 November 2026
- Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Big Tech bets on owning the whole AI stack, from chips to robots
Why it matters: If owning chips, power and models decides the winner, AI ends up in very few hands, and backers of stand-alone labs and compute renters carry the most risk when money gets tighter.
- Monday, 9 November 2026
Citadel and Cboe-backed group sues to stop Kalshi's single-stock perps
Why it matters: This is a fight over who regulates retail leverage on stocks, and who earns the fees. If perps win, trading could drift from shares and options to round-the-clock contracts outside securities rules.
- Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Bank Hapoalim says free shares made new investors, backing Musk
Why it matters: Gifting shares is a cheap way to widen market participation, a live question wherever household savings sit mostly in cash, gold or deposits.
- Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Anthropic IPO filing: $800bn compute bill, founders keep control
Why it matters: The biggest AI listing yet asks public investors to fund a frontier lab while giving them almost no say. How it prices will set the bar for every lab that follows.
- Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Meta plans $95bn share sale, with Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom as anchors
Why it matters: When one of the richest ad businesses needs outside equity, AI spending has outgrown even Big Tech cash flows. Suppliers buying the stock tightens the loop between who spends and who sells.
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
SpaceX-Tesla merger and Anthropic IPO: how investors price AI
Why it matters: Whether it is a mega-merger or an IPO, investors are paying for a story. Metrics like ARR, and pay targets tied to market value, shape how big that story looks.
- Saturday, 24 October 2026
Tech Mahindra ties up with SpaceX's AI arm to modernise old software
Why it matters: Indian IT grew by maintaining old systems. Selling AI that rewrites them shows firms embracing the automation that could shrink their own people-heavy model.
- Wednesday, 21 October 2026
Larry Ellison borrowed against his shares to fund his son's Warner bid
Why it matters: It shows how the very rich fund deals with debt rather than sales, keeping control and deferring tax in ways ordinary investors rarely can.
- Saturday, 17 October 2026
Tesla's flying Roadster dazzles, but key details are missing
Why it matters: This is marketing as much as engineering: a halo car keeps Tesla exciting as it leans into autonomy and robots. Judge it by delivery dates, not demos.
- Saturday, 10 October 2026
Gillian Tett: five ways to tell if market trouble lies ahead
Why it matters: Credit markets often sense trouble before stocks do, and rates, oil and AI debt are now tied together.
- Friday, 9 October 2026
Mint Explainer: Why is Elon Musk’s Starlink at war with Indian telecom giants?
Why it matters: Satellite internet can reach places towers and fibre don’t; who gets to sell it, and on what terms, shapes India’s connectivity.
- Friday, 25 September 2026
Google's Project Suncatcher readies its first test of AI chips in orbit
Why it matters: Suncatcher is a long-term research moonshot exploring whether space could one day host scalable machine-learning infrastructure. Ground tests included shaking the satellite on three axes and running AI workloads in a proton beam at UC Davis's Crocker Nuclear Laboratory. Cooling is a key open problem: in a vacuum there is no airflow, so heat can only be shed through radiators.
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