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š OpenAIās $38B AWS AI Power Play | šŗ Disneyās ABC Election Day Streaming Battle | š Verizon & AWS Fiber for AI Speed
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š Todayās Angle
If you had decided to stay in bed today, hereās everything youād be missing:
OpenAI just locked in a $38B deal to turbocharge your AI overlords.
Disney is fighting to get ABC back on YouTube TVājust in time to stress-watch Election Day.
Verizon and AWS are building the kind of fiber connection thatād make even your WiFi blush.
Ether whales are on the move (spoiler: theyāre not going extinct).
Solanaās ETF honeymoon phase? Letās say, itās complicated.
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š Tech & Business
What Happened: OpenAI and Amazon just inked a deal worth $38 billion over seven years. OpenAI, best known for ChatGPT, will tap AWSās muscleāincluding a truckload of Nvidia chipsāto train and deploy future AI models faster than ever. Both companies call it a ālandmarkā for AI infrastructure.
Why It Matters: This isnāt just about scaleāitās about pace. Whoever gets to āartificial general intelligenceā first sets the rules (or at least gets to name the robot dog). The AWS deal signals OpenAIās intent to stay in the ring with Google and Microsoft for the long haul.
What Happened: Disneyās asking YouTube TV to bring back ABC just in time for Election Day, after a contract spat yanked the channel. Googleās response? Not yet public. Disney says itās not about Disney+, itās about democracy (and, letās be honest, ad revenue).
Why It Matters: Millions rely on live news during elections. Platform battles now directly impact civic engagementābecause nothing says āmodern democracyā like negotiating to see a vote count.
What Happened: Fresh off an infrastructure binge, Verizon and AWS announced a new coast-to-coast fiber network deal. Itāll juice AWSās ability to sling massive AI workloadsāthink training LLMs or running inferencing faster than you can say ābuffering.ā
Why It Matters: The future runs on data, and data runs on bandwidth. Reliable, high-speed fiber isnāt just a nice-to-have; itās whatāll separate the AI winners from the Buffering Brigade. Also, not to alarm you, but the fiber here is faster than your morning coffee.

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š° The Finance Overview

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Big Tech? Still breathing, but a little windedāApple and Google barely budged while Microsoft quietly expanded its AI cloud spend. FAANGs are holding steady, though Metaās latest AR push got a reality check from lukewarm user adoption.
Startup funding trickled but didnāt drown: Seed rounds are up, but those $100M mega-raises now hit like surprise plot-twistsāa lot rarer than last year.
Infrastructureās the name of the game, with semiconductors (especially Nvidia) in perpetual demand and cloud providers racing to promise āAI in every bite.ā
Wild card: online media and streaming stocksātheyāre swinging with every content spat and new subscription war. Investors: Eyes on fiber and chips. If you see a cloud provider sneezing, you might just want to grab an umbrella.
Ticker |
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S&P 500: $SPY ( ā² 0.19% ) |
DowJones: $DJI ( ā¼ 0.48% ) |
Nasdaq: $QQQ ( ā² 0.48% ) |
German DAX: $DAX ( ā² 0.58% ) |
Indian NIFTY: $NIFTY50.NSE ( ā¼ 0.64% ) |
Bitcoin: $BTC.X ( ā¼ 2.97% ) |
Ethereum: $ETH.X ( ā¼ 6.76% ) |

š° Crypto Carousel

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What Happened: Tom Leeās BitMine Immersion doubled down on Ether with a fresh $300 million buy, bringing its holdings to $13.7 billion. The move comes amid ongoing market chop, but BitMine seems unbotheredācall it Ethereumās luxury stabling.
Why It Matters: Whale activity like this telegraphs institutional confidence in Ethereumās future (and makes you wonder if they know something you donāt). If this ETH migration continues, DeFiās next boomāor bustācould be led by corporate giants.
What Happened: Solanaās ETF debut was supposed to send price to the moon, but SOL dropped nearly 20% despite robust inflows. Investor interest is real, but so are market jitters. Not every ETF is born with wings.
Why It Matters: Itās a cautionary taleābig financial vehicles donāt always mean price gains. In a market where hype often outpaces fundamentals, Solanaās stumble proves even cryptoās golden children trip sometimes.

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Why It's Worth Your Time: Whether youāre smuggling Python into your day job or gunning for your first developer gig, this series upgrades you from ābeginnerā to āactually hireable.ā

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š Tomorrowās Forecast
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