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Jamie Dimon's National-Security Pledge Finances $230 Billion in First Year

JPMorgan's "security and resiliency initiative" is helping bolster U.S. supply chains and defense contractors.

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Quantinuum Sees Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing by 2029 With New Milestone

EXCLUSIVE: Quantinuum says it hit a technical milestone that puts it on a path to achieve fully accurate and reliable quantum computers by 2029.

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Cleveland-Cliffs Revenue Rises on Higher Volumes, Selling Price

Cleveland-Cliffs swung to a third-quarter profit as revenue rose, as the company sold more steel products and at higher prices.

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Germany's Merck to Buy U.K. Biotech Silence Therapeutics for $1.3 Billion

Merck said it is offering $20 in cash for each American depositary share for Nasdaq-listed Silence Therapeutics, more than double the target's closing price as of Friday.

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KKR Sent Formal Objection by EU Over Information Provided in €22 Billion NetCo Deal

The European Commission said it provisionally found that the group gave what it said was incorrect or misleading information related to long-term wholesale access agreements.

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Musk Vows to Give Each U.S. Child a SpaceX Share

The world's richest person made the announcement following similar pledges by Anthropic and other high-profile billionaires.

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Silgan to Combine With Trivium Packaging in $3.4 Billion Deal

Silgan Holdings has agreed to combine with Trivium Packaging, creating a global supplier of metal packaging products for consumer products.

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Anthropic to Commit 5% of Its Shares to New 'Public Benefit' Fund

The fund could send distributions directly to populations affected by AI labor disruption.

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Roche Partners With China's Hansoh in Deal That Could Top $15 Billion

The Swiss drugmaker will assume responsibility for outside China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan after the completion of early-stage clinical trials.

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Lindt Replaces CEO With Former Boss in Bid to Revive Growth

The board replaced Adalbert Lechner-who has been with the company for 33 years-with Dieter Weisskopf on an interim basis.

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Nvidia-Backed Startup doubleAI Launches Model to Pare Cost of Compute

The company, co-founded by Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua, says it slashed one early customer's compute costs by 67%.

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Microsoft Pulls out of Nscale U.K. Data-Center Deal Over Power-Supply Issues

The news is a setback for the AI infrastructure company as it prepares to go public.

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China's CXMT Expects Over Eightfold Revenue Jump Amid Memory Squeeze

Chinese memory-chip maker CXMT said rapidly growing demand for artificial-intelligence computing power has boosted the dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, industry.

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AI Agents Trading Stocks While You Sleep? Charles Schwab's CEO Is Skeptical

Schwab CEO Rick Wurster is betting some money and investing needs require a human touch.

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Ford Wants to Make Fun Cars Again in Europe-if Drivers Can Wait Until 2028

The automaker is leaning into its racing heritage in the region as Chinese competition craters its sales.


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