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Google Gives Gemini Its Own Email Address and a Job: What the Workplace Agent Means for Alphabet Stock

Google's new Gemini agent works like a colleague, with its own identity, multi-day goals and spending caps, aimed at winning the corporate customers that justify Alphabet's AI build-out. Here is what is confirmed, what is still missing, and how the stock has reacted.

DDesk8 Oct 2026 · 16:53 ET6 min read
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Recap

OpenAI Confirms $50 Billion Revenue Run Rate, Not $68 Billion, and AI Stocks Sell Off

OpenAI confirmed annualized revenue of about $50 billion at the end of September, below the $68 billion that had circulated. The gap is partly a reporting basis, but AI stocks sold off anyway: CoreWeave fell 7.3%, Oracle 5.5% and Nvidia 3.1%.

DDesk8 Oct 2026 · 16:06 ET4 min read
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News

Apple Sets "Welcome Home" Event for Oct. 13 as a Smart Home Hub and LG-Built Locks and Doorbells Loom

Apple invited press to a 9 a.m. ET event in Tribeca on October 13. Bloomberg reports a home hub, a new HomePod mini and a new Apple TV are coming, with LG-made accessories including a doorbell, lock and thermostat to follow in a few months.

DDesk8 Oct 2026 · 14:40 ET4 min read
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News

Oracle Is Trucking In Natural Gas to Power Its AI Data Centers, and the Stock Is Sliding

A Bloomberg report says Oracle is hauling compressed natural gas to data centers in Utah and Texas and is weighing the same for its 2.45-gigawatt New Mexico site, at roughly four times the cost of hub-priced gas. Shares fell about 5% Thursday.

DDesk8 Oct 2026 · 14:29 ET5 min read
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Recap

Bitcoin Miners Plunge as $1.12 Billion in Crypto Longs Get Wiped Out and an OpenAI Revenue Scare Rattles AI Bets

Riot fell 11%, Cipher and Hut 8 dropped 10% each and CleanSpark slid 9% as bitcoin weakened, leveraged longs were liquidated and a report that OpenAI's revenue is running about $20 billion below expectations hit AI data-center plays.

DDesk8 Oct 2026 · 14:09 ET4 min read
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Educational

Why 90% of Traders Fail: 6 Hidden Mistakes and the Step-by-Step Plan to Avoid Them

The "90% of traders fail" line is part folklore, part grim fact. Here is what research on day traders shows, the six mistakes behind most losses, and an eight-step process built on risk control, tested rules and honest record-keeping.

DDesk8 Oct 2026 · 10:21 ET8 min read
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