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Johnson & Johnson closed its $1 billion cash purchase of Firefly Bio, the South San Francisco biotech behind the Firelink degrader antibody conjugate platform for KRAS-driven and other hard-to-treat solid tumours.

General Dynamics reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $14.1 billion, up 8.1%, earnings of $4.24 a share, up 13.4%, and $20 billion of orders for a 1.4-to-1 book-to-bill, leaving a $136.5 billion backlog.

Hermès' consolidated revenue reached €8.2 billion in the first half of 2026, up 6% at constant exchange rates, with recurring operating income of €3.4 billion, 41.0% of sales.

Flagship wireless active speakers with a bigger Uni-Q driver and sculptural design by Ross Lovegrove.

Universal Music Group's first half of 2026 brought revenue of EUR 6.19 billion, up 5.3% (10.8% at constant currency) with the Downtown Music consolidation and Streaming 2.0 price rises, while adjusted EBITDA slipped 1.9% to EUR 1.31 billion.

Floorstanding speaker sharing technology with the 3050c but sized for smaller rooms.

Taiwan's Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of Chen Li-ming and Chen Wei-chieh, making their 10- and 6-year sentences for leaking TSMC's 2nm and 14nm secrets final; both go straight to prison.

Etsy closed the sale of resale marketplace Depop to eBay for about $1.4 billion in cash, including purchase-price adjustments and interest, five months after the deal was announced.

Ferrari's Q2 2026 net revenues rose 8% to €1,938 million with an operating profit of €605 million, a 31.2% EBIT margin, as the company raised its 2026 revenue guidance to about €7.6 billion on strong personalisation demand and an order book that covers 2027.

Passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors for the first time in six years, the $16.9 billion budget for FY2026-27 and 2027-28 closes a $642 million deficit and cuts the city's structural gap by about $300 million.

Adidas grew currency-neutral revenue 14% to a record €6.7 billion in the second quarter of 2026, driven by a World Cup marketing push and 25% direct-to-consumer growth, and raised its full-year revenue guidance to 9-10% growth.

Puma cut its second-quarter operating loss to €53.1 million from €109.1 million a year earlier, as currency-adjusted sales fell 9.4% to €1.69 billion amid its 'reset' turnaround under new CEO Arthur Hoeld.

Entry-level portable hi-fi player with an eight-DAC architecture and DSD256 support.

The General Court's President dismissed Broadcom's bid to suspend the Commission's demand for communications with in-house lawyers qualified outside the EU, finding no prima facie case and that the Commission's interest in enforcing competition rules prevails (T-280/26 R). The annulment action continues.

Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts flagship with a 1M-token context window, fifth in Text Arena and second in Vision Arena, and the first Max-tier Qwen whose weights it then released.

Umios, the Japanese seafood group formerly called Maruha Nichiro, grew first-quarter sales 5.3% to JPY 277.6 billion but operating income fell 29.4% to JPY 6.7 billion on rising seafood costs and currency effects.

Aramco's second-quarter adjusted net income rose 33% to $33.4 billion as prices surged with the Strait of Hormuz disrupted by the Iran war, while exports kept flowing through the East-West Pipeline. It declared a $21.9 billion base dividend; first-half adjusted profit reached $67.2 billion.

Wireless microphone system with 32-bit floating-point recording and four transmitters.

ThredUp's second-quarter 2026 revenue rose 17% to $90.8 million with a record 1.77 million active buyers, up 21% year-over-year, and adjusted EBITDA margin expanded to 5.3% of revenue.

The first Megapack 3 units, each holding about 5 MWh, rolled off the line at Tesla's third Megafactory near Houston, built in 16 months with a design capacity of 50 GWh a year.

The Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling, won by Lululemon, that every challenged claim of Nike's patent on a heart-rate and fitness watch console is unpatentable.