
SpaceX AI Data Centers: $74 Billion Supercomputing Push in Texas, Arizona
SpaceX said it will spend more than $74 billion on AI supercomputing campuses in Texas and Arizona, a conviction bet on AI compute and on generating the power to run it.
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SpaceX said it will spend more than $74 billion on AI supercomputing campuses in Texas and Arizona, a conviction bet on AI compute and on generating the power to run it.

J.P. Morgan projects US humanoid robot production of 300,000 to 400,000 units a year by 2030, while GXO and Apptronik sign a letter of intent to scale the Apollo across logistics.

Brent is trading up 1.96% at $94.58 and WTI up 1.33% at $87.68 on Thursday after Trump said the US doesn't need a deal with Iran and claimed control of the Strait. Who gains, who pays, and what breaks the curve next.

Prediction markets on Polymarket already favor Ian Buck over interim chief Colette Kress to be NVIDIA's next permanent CEO, pricing the transition that the equity tape cannot name.

Within hours of Jensen Huang's resignation as NVIDIA CEO, prediction markets priced Colette Kress at 22.2% to win the permanent chief executive seat, with a separate contract implying a near-certain permanent appointment by end-2028.

UK GDP grew 0.7% in Q3 2026, the ONS said, ahead of expectations and with AI investment named as an extra engine of growth. What the beat means for sterling, gilts, UK equities and Bank of England policy.

Maersk confirmed a legacy-system data breach on November 11 while the WhiteArmor group demands $5 million from the world's largest container carrier.

Governor Barr warned AI could be capital-biased innovation and cited a record-low 52.8 percent labor share, but his speech at Yale contained no fire in the December rate path.

Initial claims rose to 200,000 for the week ending Nov 7, yet the four-week average of 195,250 is still roughly 14 percent below year-ago levels, while October payrolls grew just 165,000 on a 137,000 three-month average. Here is what the claims-versus-payrolls divergence tells you about where the labor market actually stands.

Five days after founder Jensen Huang resigned and the board named CFO Colette Kress interim CEO, Nvidia reports fiscal Q3 on November 17 carrying a $108 billion revenue guide and a 74% gross-margin floor the market now treats as load-bearing.

Commerce finalized the 2024-2025 wooden cabinet antidumping review at a 7.48% margin for the reviewed exporters while holding the China-wide 251.64% cash deposit, and the assessment instructions that follow will decide who actually pays duties on entries from that period.

Iran says two supertankers with more than 4 million barrels aboard caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz; crude barely moved, but war risk premia on Hormuz transits and tanker owner stocks repriced sharply, and the shipping market is now pricing what a closed strait would mean.