The Rundown

In this weekend deep dive, Zaid breaks down Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI and the wild allegations involving stolen laptops, confidential files, and Apple hardware brought to job interviews. He also looks at why Apple may be using the case to slow OpenAI’s hardware ambitions, what Sam Altman and Jony Ive are actually building, and the bad blood between Apple's next CEO John Ternus and OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan

Market update for July 17, 2026. 
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In today’s episode, Zaid covers:
Why the tech selloff is getting worse and chip stocks are nearing a bear market

Netflix earnings and why the stock hitting a two-year low

SpaceX stock keeps falling after an aborted Starship launch (and what it means for the IPO market)

Google’s delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro model and growing concerns about its AI strategy

Apollo’s potential $3 billion Yankees deal and private equity’s growing role in sports

Market update for Thursday July 16, 2026
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In today’s episode, Zaid covers:
SpaceX briefly falling below its $135 IPO price for the first time

TSMC’s 77% profit surge and its new $100 billion U.S. investment

UnitedHealth ripping higher after a major earnings beat and raised outlook

United Airlines falling as higher fuel costs pressure its forecast

T. rex fossil selling for a record-breaking $50.1 million

Market update for Wednesday July 15, 2026
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In today’s episode, Zaid covers:
Why cooler CPI and PPI inflation data is easing fears of another Fed rate hike

Kevin Warsh’s promise of a “regime change” at the Federal Reserve

ASML’s blowout earnings and what its order book says about the AI boom

Samsung and DeepSeek could be among the next major AI-related companies headed to public markets

PayPal’s $53 billion takeover offer 

Lucid’s bankruptcy rumor

Why New York is temporarily blocking large data centers

Market update for Tuesday July 14th
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In today’s episode, Zaid covers:
Inflation finally cools off but that might be temporary 

Five megabanks reported earnings this morning, and Wall Street's trading desks are printing money

IBM suffering one of its worst stock drops in decades after a disappointing sales warning

Memory and storage stocks rallying as companies prioritize AI hardware spending

Chipotle is opening its first restaurant in... Mexico. Will Mexicans buy American-made Mexican food?