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The 7-Eleven owner cites a changed path for growth, forcing boards watching M&A risk to reprice Europe bets.

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The 7-Eleven owner cites a changed path for growth, forcing boards watching M&A risk to reprice Europe bets.

Meta’s renewable energy pullout reverses last year’s momentum and locks more power supply to natural gas, with board-level implications.

A new lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus is raising $100M, betting routine task automation beats coding.

David Ellison’s Skydance-led deal is delayed until antitrust rulings, leaving employees split between layoffs and survival bets.

Even cash-rich giants may lean on debt and off-balance-sheet moves, a Moody's warning that changes how investors underwrite AI.

Crackdowns across Jordan and US-aligned Gulf countries aim to stop image circulation and uphold denials of strike targets.

Opus 5 “comes close” to Fable 5 across many domains and improves complex coding, as US scrutiny and OpenAI security concerns keep tightening the AI screws.

Anthropic pitches stronger coding and more efficient reasoning for teams that care about cost per useful output.
New Physical Review Letters analysis uses fast radio bursts to locate expelled ordinary matter far beyond predicted galactic limits.

The studio also confirmed Oblivion Remastered is still alive, and it blamed fan demands for a new comms push.

Agentic browsers add chatbot power fast, but scientists say security got worse, not better, for user data.

Core fighting is solid, but missing launch modes and DLC spark fury, with Steam reviews split between praise and frustration.