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Disney will pay $439 million to purchase the last remaining part of Comcast's stake in Hulu, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday.

Why it matters: The deal ends a nearly two-decade-long, joint-venture journey for the streaming service.

Infants may soon be the newest stock market investors if President Trump gets his way.

Why it matters: The president Monday gathered a roomful of high-profile CEOs to tout his proposal to place $1,000 into an investment account for every U.S. baby.

United Natural Foods Inc., the primary distributor for Whole Foods, said Monday it had to take some of its systems offline after an apparent cyberattack.

Why it matters: In the short-term, the company might not be able to fully fulfill customers' orders as it investigates the potential hack.

Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company to cable channels such as CNN, TBS and TNT and the streaming service HBO Max, announced Monday that it plans split into two publicly traded companies, parting its television networks from its streaming business.

Why it matters: The split gives the company's businesses more flexibility to compete while better positioning WBD to manage its debt following the $43 billion merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia in 2022.

Andy Rachleff is funding startups again, more than two decades after stepping down as a founding partner of legendary venture capital firm Benchmark.

Why it matters: His new mission is curing cancers instead of generating profits for limited partners.

Consumer inflation expectations fell in May for the first time in 2025, according to a survey by the New York Federal Reserve released Monday.

Why it matters: In recent months, Americans anticipated that tariff-related price hikes would result in soaring inflation. Those fears receded somewhat as the Trump administration announced a temporary trade truce with China.

Tesla faces fresh risks to a big income stream: sales of regulatory credits to other automakers under vehicle emissions and efficiency rules.

Why it matters: Tesla's credit sales were $595 million last quarter and totaled $3.36 billion in the five quarters through Q1 of 2025.

The jobless rate for Black women has been creeping higher all year.

Why it matters: This could be a sign of weakness in the overall job market, economists say, though others point to the Trump administration's purge of the federal workforce and its push to eliminate DEI efforts.

It's a brutal time for women executives and others who don't neatly fit the stereotypical ideal of a leader.

Why it matters: Not only has the zeal for diversity that's defined the past decade faded, but backlash from the White House has made firms even less willing to take risks on "nontraditional" candidates, including women, people of color and LGBTQ+ people.

The wildest, scariest, indisputable truth about AI's large language models is that the companies building them don't know exactly why or how they work.

• Sit with that for a moment. The most powerful companies, racing to build the most powerful superhuman intelligence capabilities — ones they readily admit occasionally go rogue to make things up, or even threaten their users — don't know why their machines do what they do.

The Democratic National Committee is launching its first-ever live, daily show on YouTube, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The party has been reeling since its losses in the 2024 elections, but it's counting on growing discontent with President Trump to help fuel interest in the show.

Few tears will be shed in Silicon Valley or at Big Tech firms over Elon Musk's precipitous fall from White House grace.

Why it matters: Musk's brief alliance with President Trump warped the usual dynamics of the relationship between America's most valuable industry and its center of political power.

Israel intercepted a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and 11 other activists early Monday, per posts from the Israeli government and the pro-Palestinian group behind the drive.

The big picture: The "Madleen" yacht that also carried "Game of Thrones" actor Liam Cunningham was being diverted to Israel, and the crew was "expected to return to their home countries," the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on X.