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Waters to buy Becton unit in a $17.5 billion deal amid tariff pressures – Reuters

Waters to buy Becton unit in a $17.5 billion deal amid tariff pressures  Reuters Waters and BD’s Biosciences & Diagnostic Solutions Business to Combine, Creating a Life Science and Diagnostics Leader Focused on Regulated, High-Volume Testing  Becton Dickinson Becton Dickinson Biosciences & Diagnostics Unit to Merge With Waters Corp. in $17.5 Billion Deal  The Wall Street Journal Why Waters Corporation (WAT) Stock Is …

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Trump to Unveil $70 Billion in AI and Energy Investments – Bloomberg

Trump to Unveil $70 Billion in AI and Energy Investments  Bloomberg Trump visit to CMU sparks student protests ahead of energy and AI summit  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette With Trump set to attend AI & energy summit, CMU professor worries climate issues will be lost  90.5 WESA Sneak peek: Trump, McCormick plan $70 billion in AI, energy announcements for Pennsylvania  Axios Can Pittsburgh’s Old Steel Mills …

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Becton Dickinson Unit to Combine With Waters Corp. in $17.5 Billion Deal – The Wall Street Journal

Becton Dickinson Unit to Combine With Waters Corp. in $17.5 Billion Deal  The Wall Street Journal Becton to merge unit with Waters in $17.5 billion deal  Reuters Becton Dickinson gets its spinoff deal, but the stock is still falling  MarketWatch WAT Stock Alert: Halper Sadeh LLC Is Investigating Whether the Merger of Waters Corporation Is Fair to Shareholders  Business Wire Waters Corporation Stock Plunges …

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How Google Killed OpenAI’s $3 Billion Deal Without an Acquisition

How Google Killed OpenAI’s  Billion Deal Without an Acquisition

Google just dealt OpenAI a major blow by scuttling a potential $3 billion deal, and in doing so, solidified a rising trend in Silicon Valley’s AI arms race: the “non-acquisition acquisition.” Google announced on July 11 that it poached key talent from the rapidly rising AI startup Windsurf, which until then had a reported $3 billion acquisition deal with OpenAI …

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX might invest $2 billion in Musk’s xAI

Elon Musk’s SpaceX might invest  billion in Musk’s xAI

One Elon Musk business might be making a big investment in another. According to a Wall Street Journal report that cites investors close to SpaceX, the company has agreed to invest $2 billion in Musk’s AI startup xAI. The investment would reportedly be part of the $5 billion equity raise (along with another $5 billion in debt) that Morgan Stanley …

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Google hires Windsurf founders, derailing OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition

Google hires Windsurf founders, derailing OpenAI’s  billion acquisition

In brief: The founders and top researchers of AI coding startup Windsurf have announced that they will join Google’s DeepMind team, effectively ending OpenAI’s $3 billion bid to purchase the company. Windsurf will remain independent as Google will not be taking a stake and its new licensing deal with the firm is non-exclusive. Sources told Bloomberg that Google agreed to …

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A $100 billion mystery is unfolding on tariffs and inflation and economists are cracking the case

A 0 billion mystery is unfolding on tariffs and inflation and economists are cracking the case

Since the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, when the president signaled a wholesale reimagining of the international trade system on a scale not seen in decades, mainstream economists have warned that prices would surge. The mantra, repeated by everyone from mainstream economists to factions of the GOP, has been clear: A tariff is a tax on consumers. …

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Elon Musk Gave Apple 72 Hours to Accept His $5 Billion Deal—Tim Cook Said No, and Paid the Price for His Decision

Elon Musk Gave Apple 72 Hours to Accept His  Billion Deal—Tim Cook Said No, and Paid the Price for His Decision

In the world of technology, few rivalries have been as intense as the ongoing battle between Elon Musk and Tim Cook. Both heads of iconic companies, Musk and Cook, have repeatedly clashed over everything from innovation to market dominance. The latest chapter in their ongoing feud has been marked by an ambitious offer from Musk that could have drastically changed …

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