Welcome to Staten News, where the market punished a beat, a Pokemon box sold out before shipping, and the NFL is seven days from stealing the whole sports conversation.
Finance
Broadcom posted revenue of $29.59 billion against a $29.36 billion estimate, and adjusted earnings of $3.32 a share against $3.24 expected.
The stock fell 3.49% anyway, because fourth-quarter guidance of $34.8 billion missed the $35.03 billion Wall Street wanted.
AI chip revenue hit $16.7 billion, up 221% year over year, and free cash flow hit a record $13.7 billion.
Snowflake jumped more than 20% on a genuine blowout quarter.
Tesla popped 7% ahead of the Cybercab event. Nvidia added 1.5% on news it’s acquiring Hugging Face.
The S&P 500 closed up 1.01% to 7,745 as Treasury yields fell on dovish comments from Fed Governor Christopher Waller.
Tech
OpenAI connected ChatGPT Health directly to Epic’s electronic health record system, which covers more than 325 million patients.
Clinicians can now pull notes, lab results, medications, and specialist documentation straight into a chat window.
Epic has never opened its system to an outside AI before. Hospitals essentially never switch EHR platforms.
Google and Microsoft have circled healthcare AI for years with pilots that never scaled past a press release.
OpenAI skipped the pilot phase entirely and went straight to the company hospitals already trust.
Sports
The Mets beat the Rays 10-4, with Juan Soto homering and Nick Morabito and Brett Baty each hitting three-run doubles.
The win doesn’t change much. The Mets are 62-77, with no realistic path to October.
The Yankees beat the Angels 6-3.
The NFL opens its season September 9, with defending champion Seattle hosting New England.
The next night, the Rams and 49ers play the first regular-season NFL game ever held in Australia.
TCG
The Pokemon 30th Celebration set (M6a) releases worldwide on September 16, the first same-day global launch in the game’s history.
Every pack is foil, every pack guarantees one of 30 Pikachu cards, and a new FUR rarity debuts on Mew ex and Mewtwo ex.
The Japanese booster box, MSRP about $49, sold out in preorders as of August 31, more than two weeks before release.
The English lineup skips the booster box entirely. An Elite Trainer Box runs $49.99, an Ultra-Premium Collection $179.99.
Thirty classic reprints are included, among them a Base Set Charizard back in print for the first time in years.
Stay sharp. Signal over noise. — The Bandicoots 🔥