Regulatory approval has been cleared in 68 jurisdictions for Paramount Skydance (PSKY)’s $110 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), but a lawsuit from 12 state attorneys general—including California Attorney General Rob Bonta—remains the final obstacle.
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BitGo will acquire NYDIG’s institutional trading business for about $42.5 million, mostly paid in BitGo stock, adding derivatives, structured products, and other capital markets services to its custody and settlement platform.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
iOS 18 adds RCS support to iPhone, enabling Android-to-iPhone sharing without the older SMS-driven quality drop and letting iPhone users access higher image quality available via RCS.
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A $10,000 Nvidia investment from about a decade ago would now be worth almost $1.5 million, but turning $10,000 into $1 million would require Nvidia’s stock to rise 100x from current levels (to make Nvidia’s market cap exceed $500 trillion).
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A stepped-up basis generally revalues appreciated stock to fair market value on the owner’s date of death under 26 U.S. Code §1014, so heirs can sell immediately with decades of embedded capital gains wiped off the taxable ledger.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Okta beat fiscal Q2 expectations with adjusted EPS of $1.05 (vs. $0.97 expected) and revenue up 11% to $805 million (vs. $795 million expected), while remaining performance obligations rose 17% to $4.86 billion (vs. $4.70 billion expected).
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Chevron signed a deal to significantly expand its Venezuela operations and aims to double output over the next five years, building on its plan to boost production by 50% from 280,000 barrels per day by the end of 2028.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Synopsys plans to eliminate 128 positions at its Sunnyvale campus, with cuts expected to take effect by Wednesday, Dec. 16, as part of a restructuring program launched after its approximately $35 billion Ansys acquisition.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Goodyear extended its “Goodyear Forward” turnaround timeline after missing key targets, with debt still above $7 billion at the end of Q2 and a $453 million net loss through the first half of 2026 versus $131 million of operating income (1.6% operating margin).
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Blackstone and KKR are starting to attract institutional investors to the “evergreen” private-market funds they originally built for wealthy individuals, but the institutional share of Blackstone’s evergreen fundraising is still described as only a small proportion.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI says it has reached its goal of creating an “automated research intern,” a system that can carry out well-defined research tasks under human direction that would take a skilled researcher a few days.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Engadget
The U.S. gross federal debt surpassed $40 trillion and is projected by the Congressional Budget Office to reach $64 trillion by 2036, with the debt balance up 377% over the past two decades and at about 123% of GDP.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
President Donald Trump disclosed purchasing between $15,001 and $50,000 of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) shares on June 23, as part of more than 1,000 stock trades in that month.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NVIDIA’s Groq 3 LPX liquid-cooled rack is in full production and will be deployed at neocloud Nebius later this year, with a claimed 3,400 tokens per second from 256 Groq chips per rack.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
BDC and mortgage REIT dividends are taxed differently than a bank dividend because REITs and BDCs generally pass at least 90% of taxable income to shareholders, avoiding corporate income tax at the company level and shifting taxes to shareholders instead.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Successive like-kind 1031 exchanges can defer capital-gains tax indefinitely, and if the final rental is held until the owner dies, Section 1014’s stepped-up basis can erase all previously deferred gain for federal income-tax purposes (including depreciation recapture and up to 25% unrecaptured Section 1250 gain).
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Equinix announced Equinix Inference Exchange, a distributed AI inference platform built with Nvidia Enterprise Reference Architectures and Together AI’s open-model inference platform, aimed at speeding enterprises’ move from AI experiments to production.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Researchers at Georgia Tech traced 74 vulnerabilities in 43,000 security advisories to AI-generated code, including 14 critical issues, and estimated the real total of AI-generated vulnerabilities is likely 5 to 10 times higher.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Engadget
FERS pension calculations generally exclude overtime from the “high-three” average (highest average basic pay over any 3 consecutive years), while Social Security counts the same overtime as covered earnings toward future benefits.
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bank of America analyst Rinny Singh reiterated a buy rating on NuScale Power (SMR) with a $12 price target, implying about 24% upside over the next 12 months (roughly 23.7%).
Sep 6, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
