#vertical-integration

#vertical-integration

Meta is building these chips because buying AI hardware at scale is expensive, and relying too heavily on external suppliers leaves less room to shape that hardware to its own needs. Building more in-house could help the company keep AI costs in check.

"A 'lack of competition and consolidation within the insurance marketplace has led us to higher healthcare costs as a whole.'"

Mixue, the fast-growing megachain that boasts a bigger global retail footprint than McDonald's, opened its first U.S. outpost on Hollywood's Walk of Fame last month, selling drinks for less than $5 and ice cream for about $1. Mixue spokesperson Xu Ping said in a written statement in Chinese that the company chose Hollywood as its first U.S. location because the "movie capital of the world" attracts both international tourists and local consumers year-round. The store, Ping added, "aims to serve a diverse global consumer base and demonstrates the brand's commitment to the American market."

Invitation Homes' $89 million acquisition of ResiBuilt one of homebuilding mergers and acquisitions' 2026 table-setters is a small deal that can change the rules of engagement and shift the balance of competitive power for two adjacent ecosystems. Here's the context: Single-family rental REITs, with an exception or two, have historically been buyers of homes. Single-family builders have historically been sellers of them.

In the late 2010s, at the height of the direct-to-consumer boom, Framebridge founder Susan Tynan was green with envy. Many other venture-backed startups from the era-like Casper, Away, and Glossier -were growing much faster than her custom framing business. While these other buzzy brands focused on acquiring customers and growing revenue, Tynan was using her $81 million in venture funding to tackle more arduous operational issues, like building factories and hiring hundreds of craftspeople to make frames by hand.

We connected over a really basic question, which is: why doesn't that magical experience that you get out of a Rivian exist in anything smaller than a car?