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October 31 DoorDash Will Acquire Instacart In $17 Billion Deal
DoorDash is acquiring its competitor Instacart for $17 billion, the company announced Thursday. A majority of the deal will be paid in cash and shareholders will have the option to receive cash, DoorDash stock or a combination of both.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/10/29/doordash-will-acquire-instacart-in-17-billion-deal/

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3 min
October 31 Inside Anthropic’s $1 Trillion Spending Plan On Data Centers, AI Chips
The Claude maker filed for its blockbuster IPO on Monday, revealing $1 trillion in spending over the next two decades on chips and data centers.

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October 30 Billionaires Andreessen And Horowitz Are Betting On Pro-AI Politicians Who Could Boost Their Massive Fortunes
In January, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced it had raised $15 billion in new funds. It was a monster fundraising haul that boosted the 17-year-old firm’s assets to more than $90 billion, nearly double the amount it held in 2024. It also marked an opportunity for the firm’s co-founders, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, to telegraph their lofty ambitions for how to remake the country—and the world.
“As the American leader in venture capital, the fate of new technology in the United States rests partly on our shoulders,” Horowitz wrote in a blog post announcing the fundraise. “Our mission is ensuring that America wins the next 100 years of technology. That starts with winning the key architectures of the future—AI and crypto.”
Forgive him if he sounds a bit boastful. After all, America may win the next century but his firm is already one of the winningest tech investors of the past year and decade. It first invested in OpenAI in April 2023 when it was worth $29 billion; the AI giant’s valuation hit $852 billion in March and is expected to go public next year with a valuation north of $1 trillion.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2026/10/28/billionaires-andreessen-and-horowitz-are-betting-on-pro-ai-politicians-who-could-boost-their-massive-fortunes/

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8 min
October 29 Two Big AI Risks Revealed In Anthropic's New S-1 Filing
Anthropic filed for its blockbuster IPO on Monday, bringing the AI behemoth closer to what could be the largest public debuts in stock market history. The 335-page filing revealed the Claude maker generated around $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of the year, up from $1.2 billion a year earlier, but incurred a $80.7 billion net loss for the first half of the year (most of which is due to a non-cash accounting charge). The company touts more than 300,000 enterprise customers, 250 of which spend over $10 million on Anthropic’s products every year. It plans to list under the ticker symbol “ANT” and is on track to go public as soon as mid-November.
Forbes estimates that its two most prominent cofounders: CEO Dario Amodei and his sister, Anthropic president Daniela Amodei, are worth $13.6 billion and $13.7 billion, respectively. Each cofounder owns an estimated 1.4% stake.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/2026/10/27/inside-anthropics-ipo-prospectus-revenue-losses-and-surprising-details/

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8 min
October 28 Why Struggling Cannabis Growers Are Betting On The AI Data Center Boom
As cannabis prices crash around the country, struggling cannabis companies with big industrial buildings outfitted with power, fiber, water and HVAC systems thought they had a golden ticket to the AI race. But moratoriums, NIMBYISM and power constraints crushed most of their dreams.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2026/10/21/inside-the-weed-industrys-ai-data-center-pipe-dream/

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8 min
October 27 Highest-Paid Soccer Players 2026: Messi Hits A New High But Can’t Touch Ronaldo
This summer represented a bit of a changing of the guard on the soccer pitch, as exemplified by Spain’s winger Lamine Yamal, who hoisted the World Cup trophy at age 19 by beating Argentine legend Lionel Messi—the very man who had bathed him when he was an infant for a now-viral photoshoot in 2007.
But while Yamal is already reaping the rewards of his star turn on American soil, he and the rest of soccer’s new generation still have a long way to go to close the financial gap on Messi and his Portuguese rival Cristiano Ronaldo, two of the greatest money-making machines the sports world has ever seen.
For the fourth consecutive season, and the 12th time in the last 13 years, Ronaldo and Messi are the world’s two highest-paid soccer players, due to haul in $300 million and $145 million, respectively, according to Forbes estimates. (French striker Kylian Mbappé, who lands at No. 3 on Forbes’ list of the top-earning soccer players this year with an estimated $100 million, made a cameo at No. 1 in 2022 thanks to a massive signing bonus he received when he extended his contract with Paris Saint-Germain, two years before he left the club for Real Madrid.)
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hanktucker/2026/10/17/the-worlds-highest-paid-soccer-players-2026/

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7 min
October 25 Elon Musk Says He’ll Give Every Child In America One SpaceX Share Next Year
Elon Musk on Monday announced he plans to give every child in America one share in his aerospace and AI company SpaceX next year, shortly after he criticized rival Anthropic’s plan to pledge 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund and urged the company to distribute its shares directly to the public.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/10/19/elon-musk-says-hell-give-every-child-in-america-one-spacex-share-next-year/

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3 min
October 24 Theranos Whistleblower Alleges Elizabeth Holmes ‘Misled’ Nathan Fielder In Documentary Scene
Tyler Shultz, a former Theranos employee who blew the whistle on the ill-fated biotech company, alleged its founder and convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes “misled” Nathan Fielder about the technology her company developed in a key scene in his new documentary, “You Can See Everything.”
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/10/19/theranos-whistleblower-alleges-elizabeth-holmes-misled-nathan-fielder-in-documentary-scene/

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3 min
October 23 Counterfeiters Are Advertising Fake Cash On TikTok
The Chinese-owned social network has run dozens of ads promoting the sale of counterfeit currency. One even directed users to a Telegram account offering a discount code for 10% off fake money: “TikTok10.”

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7 min
October 22 Highest-Paid NBA Players 2026: Curry Is Basketball’s First $200 Million Man
Stephen Curry was the NBA’s first unanimous MVP, in 2016. The first player to lead the league in 3-pointers four times, then five times, then six and seven and eight times. The first player to launch 10,000 attempts from beyond the arc—and the first to drain 4,000 of them.
But for all of the ways the Golden State Warriors’ 38-year-old sharpshooter has transformed basketball, he is just as much of a game-changer financially.
Already the first NBA player with a $40 million salary (in 2019-20) and a $50 million salary (2023-24), Curry is set to cross the $60 million threshold this season, banking $62.6 million on the court. Meanwhile, after splitting with his longtime sponsor Under Armour last fall and unveiling a new deal with Chinese shoe brand Li-Ning in June, Curry projects to earn an estimated $141 million from endorsements and other business endeavors—demolishing the NBA-record $100 million he made off the court in 2024-25.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brettknight/2026/10/20/highest-paid-nba-players-2026-curry-is-basketballs-first-200-million-man/

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