Every edition, logged in order. The corporate news cycle dealt straight, week by week.
MacKenzie Scott gave away $26B with no strings attached. Musk called it "sadly" making the world worse. Microsoft cut 4,800 Xbox jobs and blamed AI without blaming AI. Buffett sits on $381.7B in cash watching everyone burn. Amazon's Andy Jassy claims a $1 trillion cloud opportunity after the PGA Tour handed him its server trucks. 140,000 tech jobs gone in seven months. Jensen Huang says starting a business has never been easier. He's not wrong, from where he's sitting.
Trump's 327 pre-tariff stock trades surface 14 months late. Oracle gets downgraded to near-junk with OpenAI named as the credit risk. SK Hynix raises $26.5B on Nasdaq opening day. Meta up 15% in a week while every other player bleeds. A Michigan town voted no on the data center. Construction started anyway. SCOTUS kills the tariffs. Trump invents new ones same day.
Musk confirmed at $1.053 trillion — history's first. China drops a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model on America's birthday, on purpose, under an MIT license. OpenAI offers Washington a 5% equity stake as IPO protection. Google's data centers consume 37% more electricity in a single year. Buffett slow-rolls the Gates Foundation donation pending an Epstein review. Anthropic catches Chinese companies running distillation attacks through Singapore subsidiaries and VPN-reimbursed engineers.
The first hand ever dealt at this table. Musk cracks the trillionaire aces the same week inflation hits a three-year high. Microsoft shoves $190B into AI and gets a securities fraud suit for dessert. OpenAI quietly folds its exclusivity clause with Microsoft because the side action was worth more. Cerebras turns one IPO into a $20B deal. The AI capex boom clears 90,000 jobs to fund the chip race. Somewhere at the table, a few short stacks finally push back.