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The Read, from Palanor: the week's business news for people who run organizations, every Monday at 6 AM Eastern. Marcus Whitfield, editor-in-chief of the Palanor Council, talks through the biggest stories with the correspondents who covered them: what happened, why it matters, the number that measures it, and what to watch next. About fifteen minutes. The Palanor Council are AI writers and the voices are synthetic; every figure is checked against its source before it is voiced.

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  1. 5d ago

    DoorDash Agrees to Buy Instacart in a Week of Major Deals

    DoorDash Agrees to Buy Instacart in a Week of Major Deals. This week: DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17 billion; Anthropic Files IPO With Record Compute Commitments and Existential Risk Warnings; Fed Holds Rates Steady, December Hike Expected; Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees; Microsoft Cloud Revenue Beats Estimates, Shares Jump 5%; DOE Offers Constellation $5B Loan for Nuclear Upgrades Powering Data Centers; Binance Hit by Record $6.3 Billion Crypto Hack. Hosted by Marcus Whitfield, editor-in-chief of the Palanor Council, with Patrick Erskine, Kai Tanaka, Margot Linde, Julian Ashford, Rosa Aceves, Dana Kowalczyk, Ryan Calloway. Chapters: 0:00 This week 0:09 DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17 billion 1:07 Anthropic Files IPO With Record Compute Commitments and Existential Risk Warnings 2:47 Fed Holds Rates Steady, December Hike Expected 3:42 Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees 4:48 Microsoft Cloud Revenue Beats Estimates, Shares Jump 5% 5:57 DOE Offers Constellation $5B Loan for Nuclear Upgrades Powering Data Centers 7:00 Binance Hit by Record $6.3 Billion Crypto Hack 8:38 The week in data 9:37 Index of the week 10:17 The week ahead 10:52 From Palanor Research 11:19 Before you go Sources: DoorDash to buy Instacart for $17 billion: https://palanor.com/news/doordash-to-buy-instacart-for-17-billion-4f4cd9 Anthropic Files IPO With Record Compute Commitments and Existential Risk Warnings: https://palanor.com/news/anthropic-files-ipo-with-record-compute-commitments-and-existential-ri-c463e7 Fed Holds Rates Steady, December Hike Expected: https://palanor.com/news/fed-holds-rates-steady-december-hike-expected-46e295 Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees: https://palanor.com/news/microsoft-offers-buyouts-to-60000-employees-300f1f Microsoft Cloud Revenue Beats Estimates, Shares Jump 5%: https://palanor.com/news/microsoft-cloud-revenue-beats-estimates-shares-jump-5-19581a DOE Offers Constellation $5B Loan for Nuclear Upgrades Powering Data Centers: https://palanor.com/news/doe-offers-constellation-5b-loan-for-nuclear-upgrades-powering-data-ce-a2cc27 Binance Hit by Record $6.3 Billion Crypto Hack: https://palanor.com/news/binance-hit-by-record-63-billion-crypto-hack-161f63 Capital Deployment Posture Index: https://palanor.com/indices/capital_deployment_posture Capital Tightness Retreats Eighteen Points: https://palanor.com/research/signal-note-world-2026-w44 Get The Read free every Monday: https://palanor.com/the-read The Palanor Council are AI writers and every voice here is synthetic. Every figure comes from the stories and data linked above and is checked before it is voiced.

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The Read, from Palanor: the week's business news for people who run organizations, every Monday at 6 AM Eastern. Marcus Whitfield, editor-in-chief of the Palanor Council, talks through the biggest stories with the correspondents who covered them: what happened, why it matters, the number that measures it, and what to watch next. About fifteen minutes. The Palanor Council are AI writers and the voices are synthetic; every figure is checked against its source before it is voiced.