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Amazon taps Uber Eats, Musk's midterm money comes up short, and hackers go after the blood bank freezers.
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Musk's midterm money mostly went to races he lost, with about $446 million spent backing Republican candidates, and Democrat James Talarico won the Texas Senate seat in the most expensive Senate race to date, beating Ken Paxton, whose campaign got $47 million from Musk's PAC, in a record-setting race.
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Agility Robotics goes public on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT after merging with a special purpose acquisition company. It becomes the first dedicated humanoid robot company to trade in the US, and the Nvidia-backed startup begins trading on Thursday.
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Markets · Wed, Nov 4 US stocks closed higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 3.19%, as the Democratic midterm sweep lifted the market and Dow books a 1,500-point gain.
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