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Wall Street Divided on Madison Air as Data Center Cooling Demand Surges

Wall Street Divided on Madison Air as Data Center Cooling Demand Surges

Madison Air Solutions, a newly public HVAC and indoor air quality firm, drew divergent analyst calls as investors grappled with strong data center cooling growth tied to AI investments and concerns about its valuation and leverage. Goldman Sachs began coverage with a Neutral rating and $44 target, while RBC Capital Markets emphasized the company’s …

Anthropic’s Claude Platform Debuts on AWS with Native API Access

Anthropic’s Claude Platform Debuts on AWS with Native API Access

Amazon Web Services has added native access to Anthropic’s Claude Platform within AWS accounts, allowing customers to call the same APIs and tools available directly from Anthropic using their AWS identity and billing. The integration supports IAM and API key authentication, records activity in CloudTrail, bills consumption through AWS Marketplace,…

U.S. Alerts Banks to IRGC Sanctions-Evasion Methods as Tensions Rise

U.S. Alerts Banks to IRGC Sanctions-Evasion Methods as Tensions Rise

The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on Monday issued an advisory to financial institutions about tactics used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to evade U.S. sanctions. The notice highlights the use of front firms, digital asset infrastructure and other service providers to support procurement networks. The alert comes …

France to Transfer €2.5 Billion of State Stakes to Caisse des Depots

France to Transfer €2.5 Billion of State Stakes to Caisse des Depots

France’s state shareholding agency, Agence des participations de l'Etat (APE), will raise roughly 2.5 billion euros by transferring its stakes in a housing company and two tunnel operators to public lender Caisse des Depots. The move reflects APE’s shift toward strategic sectors including defense, and the transactions remain subject to regulatory a…

CPI, ADP and Weekly Oil Stocks Take Center Stage on May 12, 2026

CPI, ADP and Weekly Oil Stocks Take Center Stage on May 12, 2026

A compact set of influential economic releases and central bank commentary scheduled for Tuesday, May 12, 2026, could shape market direction. Headlining the calendar are the Consumer Price Index and Core CPI prints, which will update headline and underlying inflation readings. Early labor conditions will be previewed by the ADP Employment Change We…

Embraer Pursues C-390 Sales in Colombia and Chile as Production Ramps Up

Embraer Pursues C-390 Sales in Colombia and Chile as Production Ramps Up

Embraer is negotiating potential C-390 military transport sales with Colombia and Chile while accelerating production to meet growing international interest, CEO Francisco Gomes Neto said. Brazil remains the only Latin American operator of the aircraft; new regional orders would expand foreign sales. The company also announced a Middle East order a…

Starbucks to Cut 61 Tech Roles at Seattle Headquarters

Starbucks to Cut 61 Tech Roles at Seattle Headquarters

Starbucks disclosed in a WARN filing that 61 corporate technology positions at its Seattle headquarters will be eliminated, with the layoffs slated to begin in June. The company says the action is not a result of relocation, and the move was not part of a previously announced shift of some technology roles to a new supply-chain office in Nashville.…

Lufthansa commits to 20 next-generation long-haul jets in $7.7 billion deal

Lufthansa commits to 20 next-generation long-haul jets in $7.7 billion deal

Lufthansa Group has placed an order for 20 long-haul aircraft — ten Airbus A350-900s and ten Boeing 787-9s — at a combined list price of $7.7 billion. The deal, approved by Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s Supervisory Board on Monday after an earlier Executive Board decision, schedules deliveries from 2032 to 2034 and is intended to modernize the fleet, red…

Bipartisan Senators Urge President to Maintain Tough Stance on Shipbuilding Trade Measures Ahead of Xi Summit

Bipartisan Senators Urge President to Maintain Tough Stance on Shipbuilding Trade Measures Ahead of Xi Summit

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators urged President Donald Trump to resist concessions to China on maritime trade and to implement trade remedies proposed to rebuild the U.S. shipbuilding sector ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The senators emphasized the need to continue port fees and advance legislation offering tax incenti…

Telus to expand AI-focused data center footprint in British Columbia

Telus to expand AI-focused data center footprint in British Columbia

Telus plans to develop two facilities in Vancouver and expand an existing data center in Kamloops to accommodate artificial intelligence workloads. The three sites are expected to draw more than 150 megawatts of electricity by 2032, with staged openings beginning later this year and a downtown Vancouver facility scheduled to start operations in 202…

Sony Music Publishing to acquire Recognition Music Group catalog in deal valued at about $4 billion, source says

Sony Music Publishing to acquire Recognition Music Group catalog in deal valued at about $4 billion, source says

Sony Music Publishing announced plans to buy the full catalog of Recognition Music Group from funds managed by Blackstone, gaining control of a library of over 45,000 songs that includes works by Beyonce, Fleetwood Mac and Rihanna. Companies declined to reveal the price; a person familiar with the transaction said the deal was for roughly $4 billio…

Family of FSU Shooting Victim Sues OpenAI, Alleging Chatbot Aided Plot

Family of FSU Shooting Victim Sues OpenAI, Alleging Chatbot Aided Plot

The family of Tiru Chabba, a victim of a 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University, has filed suit in federal court in Florida accusing OpenAI and the alleged shooter, Phoenix Ikner, of enabling the attack through interactions with ChatGPT. The complaint says the chatbot provided information used in planning the shooting and failed to flag or …