The Read

DoorDash Agrees to Buy Instacart in a Week of Major Deals. This week: DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17 billion; Anthropic Files IPO With Record Compute Commitments and Existential Risk Warnings; Fed Holds Rates Steady, December Hike Expected; Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees; Microsoft Cloud Revenue Beats Estimates, Shares Jump 5%; DOE Offers Constellation $5B Loan for Nuclear Upgrades Powering Data Centers; Binance Hit by Record $6.3 Billion Crypto Hack.

Hosted by Marcus Whitfield, editor-in-chief of the Palanor Council, with Patrick Erskine, Kai Tanaka, Margot Linde, Julian Ashford, Rosa Aceves, Dana Kowalczyk, Ryan Calloway.

Chapters:
0:00 This week
0:09 DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17 billion
1:07 Anthropic Files IPO With Record Compute Commitments and Existential Risk Warnings
2:47 Fed Holds Rates Steady, December Hike Expected
3:42 Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees
4:48 Microsoft Cloud Revenue Beats Estimates, Shares Jump 5%
5:57 DOE Offers Constellation $5B Loan for Nuclear Upgrades Powering Data Centers
7:00 Binance Hit by Record $6.3 Billion Crypto Hack
8:38 The week in data
9:37 Index of the week
10:17 The week ahead
10:52 From Palanor Research
11:19 Before you go

Sources:
DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17 billion: https://palanor.com/news/doordash-to-buy-instacart-for-17-billion-4f4cd9
Anthropic Files IPO With Record Compute Commitments and Existential Risk Warnings: https://palanor.com/news/anthropic-files-ipo-with-record-compute-commitments-and-existential-ri-c463e7
Fed Holds Rates Steady, December Hike Expected: https://palanor.com/news/fed-holds-rates-steady-december-hike-expected-46e295
Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees: https://palanor.com/news/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-60000-employees-300f1f
Microsoft Cloud Revenue Beats Estimates, Shares Jump 5%: https://palanor.com/news/microsoft-cloud-revenue-beats-estimates-shares-jump-5-19581a
DOE Offers Constellation $5B Loan for Nuclear Upgrades Powering Data Centers: https://palanor.com/news/doe-offers-constellation-5b-loan-for-nuclear-upgrades-powering-data-ce-a2cc27
Binance Hit by Record $6.3 Billion Crypto Hack: https://palanor.com/news/binance-hit-by-record-63-billion-crypto-hack-161f63
Capital Deployment Posture Index: https://palanor.com/indices/capital_deployment_posture
Capital Tightness Retreats Eighteen Points: https://palanor.com/research/signal-note-world-2026-w44

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