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Curaleaf's unsolicited bid to acquire Aurora Cannabis at four dollars per share is running into resistance, and that tension is worth watching closely. Hostile takeovers in the cannabis space are rare, and the deal faces regulatory complexity on both sides of the border, making a clean path to completion far from certain.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, Anthropic has pushed its IPO back by roughly a month to November, but the delay isn't dampening enthusiasm from investors tracking the company's revenue trajectory. The underlying growth number that analysts are focused on suggests the business is scaling faster than the timeline change might imply, and the appetite for this offering remains strong.
And in social media, Meta is seeing strong early download numbers for its Muse AI assistant, but the real test for Zuckerberg now is retention, not acquisition. Getting users to weave an AI agent into daily habits is a fundamentally different challenge than a viral launch moment, and that stickiness metric will define whether Muse becomes a platform or a footnote.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
