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E-Commerce Giant PDD Holdings Faces Profit Decline Amid Rising Sales

Shanghai, Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
Analysts project PDD Holdings’ quarterly profit to decline 6.4% year-over-year despite a forecasted 13.4% sales surge, driven by heavy supply chain investments and growing global competition.

Surging CoreWeave Borrowing Costs Signal Deepening AI Debt Fears

New York, Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
CoreWeave’s bond yields jumped to 15% in October 2026, sparking private credit bubble warnings as the AI cloud provider struggles with $52 billion in total debt obligations.

Berkshire Hathaway Boosts Stake in Tech Giant Bending Spoons

Omaha, Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
Berkshire Hathaway expanded its investment in Bending Spoons by $330 million, lifting its stake to 4% and sending the software company’s stock soaring over 50%.

Major Tech Stocks Fall as Corporate AI Spending Lags Behind Expectations

New York, Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
Barclays downgraded Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and NetApp on October 14, 2026, warning that corporate artificial intelligence adoption has failed to drive a meaningful boost in hardware revenue.

Biotech Company Appoints Veteran Investment Banker to Board

Vancouver, Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
Lobe Sciences appointed Annette Grimaldi to its board, leveraging her 35 years of investment banking experience to advance drug developments and secure strategic capital opportunities.

Medical Care Technologies Secures First Paid Deal for Health Software

New York, Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
Medical Care Technologies signed its first commercial artificial intelligence contract worth $250,000 on October 14, 2026, marking a critical transition from software development to direct corporate revenue.

Perpetuals Leverages SEC Exemption to Launch Tokenized U.S. Stock Trading

New York, Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
Perpetuals announced plans to offer tokenized U.S. stock trading using the SEC’s new Innovation Exemption framework, bridging traditional regulated equity markets with real-time, onchain digital asset infrastructure.

Chip Equipment Leader ASML Raises Forecast as Artificial Intelligence Drives Record Demand

Veldhoven, Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
ASML reported higher third-quarter profits and raised its 2026 sales forecast, warning that surging artificial intelligence demand will cause equipment shortages through 2028 as customers request orders reaching 2030.

Blancco Launches Artificial Intelligence Platform to Automate Corporate Data Erasure

Austin, Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
Blancco Technology Group has launched Blancco Blue, an artificial intelligence platform leveraging insights from 500 million data erasures to automate corporate hardware sanitization and compliance reporting.

British Police Unit Drops American Tech Giant Palantir

London, Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
A major British regional policing unit has ended its contract with US technology firm Palantir, highlighting growing government pushback over sovereign data control and foreign reliance in public services.