The Wall Street Journal Marches Toward Pravda With American Characteristics

Greg Ip, chief economics commentator for The Wall Street Journal, under the euphemistic headline “The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics”: A generation ago conventi… [+2299 chars]

Klarna Posts Revenue Growth as U.S. Momentum Continues

STOCKHOLMKlarnas total revenue jumped in the second quarter as momentum in the U.S., its biggest market, continued to accelerate. The unlisted buy now, pay later company posted revenue of $823 milli… [+292 chars]

Deere Cuts Outlook as 3Q Profit, Revenue Fall

Deere lowered the high end of its full-year outlook as its profit and sales declined in its fiscal third quarter. - patrick t. fallon/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Deere lowered the high end of … [+2191 chars]

Perplexity Jumps the Shark, Makes Clownish $34.5 Billion Stunt Offer to Buy Chrome From Google

Katherine Blunt, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a paywall-puncturing gift link; also on News+): Artificial-intelligence startup Perplexity on Tuesday offered to purchase Googl… [+3073 chars]

‘Unusual Agreements’

Amrith Ramkumar and Robbie Whelan, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have agreed to give the Trump administration a portion of the sales from the… [+2850 chars]

Rumble Shares Gain After Possible Northern Data Deal, Second-Quarter Results

Data servers in a Northern Data-operated mine. Rumble is mulling an all-stock bid for the AI cloud computing group. - Fredrik Solstad/Bloomberg News Shares of Rumble climbed after the company report… [+1854 chars]