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15 stories on the DEALS beat — reported from primary sources and ordered newest first.

[DEALS]OCT 23

SpaceX stock rises on rare double upgrade and AI revenue surge

Space Exploration Technologies closed at $147.49 on Friday, October 23, gaining 1.89% as a rare double upgrade from Phillip Securities drove investor focus toward the company's artificial intelligence growth.

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[DEALS]OCT 21

AI finds two critical flaws in PHP, the code behind 70% of websites

Security officials in the United States and Japan are urging companies to patch two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, an open-source programming language used by nearly 70% of all websites.

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[DEALS]OCT 21

Salesforce Agrees to Acquire Braze for $5.66 Billion

Salesforce has agreed to acquire customer engagement software provider Braze for $47.50 per share in cash, a transaction valued at $5.66 billion.

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[DEALS]OCT 21

CoreWeave shares trade at low valuation amid negative free cash flow

CoreWeave stock has lost 56.9% over the past twelve months, a decline that contrasts with the company more than doubling its revenue during the same period.

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[DEALS]OCT 20

SpaceX and Tesla form committees to explore potential merger

SpaceX and Tesla have established special committees to evaluate a potential merger, according to Elon Musk, the CEO of both companies.

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[DEALS]OCT 20

OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to expand life sciences AI

OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup developing AI agents for pharmaceutical drug development, in a move shared exclusively with Axios.

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[DEALS]OCT 20

AI Concentration Drags S&P 500; Experts Suggest Buying in Thirds

AI-related stocks now hold nearly half of the S&P 500's market value, a concentration that turned last week's sector sell-off into the index's worst performance since June.

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[DEALS]OCT 06

Dolph Lundgren credits shared abusive childhood with sustaining Sylvester Stallone friendship

Dolph Lundgren stated that his shared history of childhood abuse with Sylvester Stallone has been the foundation of their forty-year friendship.

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[DEALS]OCT 06

AI labs face backlash over rapid progress in mathematics

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other artificial intelligence laboratories have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems over the past year.

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[DEALS]SEP 07

Amazon's Labor Day Sale Closes Tonight, With a Memory-Cost Baseline Shift on Device Deals

Memory and storage costs tied to AI demand are the operating condition that resets the baseline for Amazon's 2026 Labor Day sale. On August 21, Amazon raised prices on its Echo, Kindle, Fire TV, and eero hardware lines b

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[DEALS]AUG 31

Software buyouts face $40bn refinancing crunch as AI erodes the underlying assets

The maturity wall is a concentration event: leveraged buyout debt written in a single vintage comes due in a single window, removing the optionality that staggered maturities provide.

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[DEALS]AUG 23

Visa's $2.4 billion acquisition of BioCatch targets the AI fraud layer

The constraint shaping this deal runs across the payments industry: AI-powered scams have changed the fraud environment faster than detection systems built to monitor it have adapted.

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[DEALS]AUG 19

Stripe to acquire OpenRouter in push into AI model market

The distribution bottleneck in AI application development sits above the model APIs. Every deployment that draws on multiple foundation models must resolve which model to call for a given request, a

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[DEALS]AUG 16

Taylor Sheridan's talent retention record holds as Lioness enters its third season

The binding constraint in premium scripted television is showrunner bandwidth: a single writer-showrunner managing multiple concurrent productions risks thinning creative oversight and losing cast loyalty.

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[DEALS]AUG 13

Workday shares mark best single-session gain in a decade on Silver Lake buyout report

Enterprise HR and finance software has a structural vulnerability the market has been pricing in: AI agents are increasingly capable of performing the workflows Workday charges recurring subscription se

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