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Morning links — October 7, 2026

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A restaurant bankruptcy reveals the cost of emergency cash <Restaurant Business>
About a quarter of True Food Kitchen’s $42 million-plus debt came from alternative advances, including arrangements repaid through delivery orders and discounted meals.

Google’s nuclear power deal has a much larger, less nuclear companion <The Verge>
Google’s deal with Constellation promises 890 megawatts of added nuclear capacity; a separate agreement for 2,700 megawatts of existing power is not limited to nuclear plants.

Uber pays $2.3 billion for a seat at the office lunch table <TechCrunch>
Uber is buying ezCater to reach workplace meal budgets; the platform had $2.5 billion in gross bookings—not revenue—over the past year, according to Uber.

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Evening links — October 6, 2026

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A Lego claim exposes a bigger insurance-fraud bill <The Guardian>
A fake theft claim for collectible Lego helped expose one fraudster; insurers say they detected £1.34 billion in bogus UK claims last year, up 14% even as the number of cases fell.

Lambda’s $50 billion backlog has a $35 billion catch <TechCrunch>
Lambda is seeking up to $4 billion before a planned IPO, TechCrunch reports citing the Wall Street Journal; $35 billion of its $50 billion order backlog comes from Anthropic, leaving its debt-funded expansion heavily exposed to one customer.

Mattel gets another invitation to sell itself <Retail Dive>
A second major investor wants Mattel to consider a sale or breakup; quarterly sales rose 10%, but the Barbie maker swung to an $18 million loss, and the activist says progress has stalled.

Hy-Vee puts its dollar-store experiment back in the box <Grocery Dive>
Hy-Vee is rebranding its remaining Dollar Fresh stores after finding that its 96-year-old supermarket name resonates better than the discount spin-off.

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Morning links — October 6, 2026

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Lindt’s $94,000 ticket to a chocolate suitcase <Business Insider>
A voting share costs about 78,000 Swiss francs; shareholders who vote at Lindt’s annual meeting get a blue briefcase of chocolate, an unusually edible status symbol.

ChatGPT’s image generator gets an ad break <TechCrunch>
OpenAI says labeled ads will appear alongside generated images for U.S. users later this month, giving its free and low-cost tiers another way to make money.

Museums license their way into hotel rooms <The Guardian>
London’s Natural History Museum has licensed a hotel suite with T. rex bunk beds starting at £724 a night, part of a wider push to turn collections into revenue as costs rise.

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Evening links — October 5, 2026

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Crumbl’s cookie empire starts to crack <Restaurant Business>
Restaurant Business reports at least 57 store closures this year and August sales 70% below two years earlier, even as franchisees were pressed to spend $30,000–$50,000 on dirty-soda equipment that has not revived sales.

Has Publix lost its magic? <Grocery Dive>
The employee-owned grocer’s same-store sales fell 0.5% last quarter, versus 6% growth a year earlier; even a beloved sub sandwich is a tough defense against Walmart and Costco.

BT’s TalkTalk rescue comes with an unpaid bill <The Guardian>
BT’s rescue of the collapsed broadband provider is expected to cost £400 million, including £100 million in unpaid revenue owed to BT’s own Openreach network; the deal also brings 1.5 million customers and a competition review.

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Evening links — October 2, 2026

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Rick Santelli says goodbye after nearly 30 years at CNBC <Talking Biz News>
Bon voyage, Rick Santelli. CNBC will be much less entertaining without him.

Ikea to shutter 3 small-format plan and order stores <Retail Dive>
One Georgetown shop opened less than a year ago; closing it alongside two other plan-and-order locations complicates Ikea’s small-store experiment, launched amid a $2.2 billion U.S. expansion plan.

David Ellison has a new name for the combined Paramount and WBD <Business Insider>
The proposed $110 billion combination would take the name of Ellison’s original film studio, Skydance, while Paramount and Warner Bros. remain the legacy brands; the merger has not yet closed.

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Morning links — October 2, 2026

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California says Lyft will pay $272.5M to resolve driver-pay claims <California Labor Commissioner>
The state calls it its largest wage-and-hour settlement; 87% is slated to go directly to drivers over alleged 2016–20 violations, before Proposition 22 changed the rules.

Reddit is closing the free pipes to its data <TechCrunch>
RSS ends November 13 and public API access in March 2027; meanwhile, Reddit’s “other revenue” rose 24% to $43 million as licensing grows—leaving moderators, researchers and third-party tools to find another route in.

Bending Spoons’ acquisition machine lifted revenue to $1.31 billion <Euronews Next>
Most of the company’s revenue jump since 2023 came from acquisitions, while subscriptions supplied 84% of first-quarter sales; the roll-up still has to keep users through post-deal changes.

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