Business headlines from the Apex backend, organized by sectors and major public companies for faster market scanning.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Merrill Lynch, a Bank of America unit, relied on an internal software tool to track and report suspicious activity that, for years, did not meet regulatory expectations for anti-money-laundering compliance.
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The enterprise software company behind Rocky Linux and the Fuzzball AI and HPC orchestration platform says the latest Fuzzball release is designed to make NVIDIA’s DGX Spark system suitable for production-style AI workloads, from building models to running inference at scale.
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The startup, positioning its technology for inference workloads, claims $1 billion under contract tied to inference systems powered by its chip, as it also cites a $5 billion valuation.
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A proposed separation would separate Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Sky assets from its broadband and wireless operations through a tax-free spin-off, according to a report published on June 30, 2026.
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The company is reportedly seeking political clearance to add CXMT to its supply chain, a move that would collide with national-security concerns tied to memory components used in advanced computing.
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A fresh wave of market commentary is pointing to Nvidia usage reductions tied to China and, now, OpenAI. Even so, NVDA stock moved higher, highlighting how investors can treat customer-specific cuts as less than the whole story when the AI chip cycle is still expanding.
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DeepSeek introduced DSpark, an inference software module that its developers say can speed AI model responses by 60% to 85% without requiring new hardware. The announcement complicates NVIDIA’s parallel push to expand capacity using a specialized “decode rack,” which customers may need to buy in a second, separate purchase decision.
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Aptos Labs says it is joining a growing set of companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase and BlackRock, to support a new stablecoin called Open USD.
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A new market commentary argues Alphabet could still merit a “solid growth” label, but it offers limited detail on catalysts and metrics in the information available.
