‘Squid has a distinctive odor to it’: Seafood truck crash in Rhode Island creates ‘Squidpocalypse of ’26’
Narragansett’s “Squidpocalypse of ’26” shut an intersection from 9:27 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. as crews removed spilled…
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Klarna wants its next CFO in New York. That’s a signal to Wall Street
Niclas Neglén is stepping down as finance chief, and the company's next CFO will need capital markets credibility, says…
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Trump’s Canada tariff threat produces a deal with no public terms
Canada and the United States moved closer Wednesday to finalizing a trade agreement that would avert threatened 50%…
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Portfolio review takes on a new urgency for VCs as AI makes 2024’s great deals look like 2026’s clear mistakes
In venture capital, the half-life of a thesis has never been shorter.
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AI is becoming a financial engineering business
As large language models become more interchangeable, balance sheets will matter as much as tech breakthroughs in the…
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Current price of oil as of August 20, 2026
When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.
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Climate change to cost London up to £36 billion a year by 2050s
Lost working hours, disruption to businesses and damage to infrastructure caused by extreme weather in a warmer climate…
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Bessent’s $4 billion bond plan is like ‘rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic given the U.S. national debt of $40 trillion,’ ING says
Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.
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AI won’t fix enterprise complexity. Rewiring will
Picture a railroad that spends billions on the fastest trains in the world, then runs them on the same aging rails. The…
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Zynga founder Mark Pincus: AI can get you to a B-plus, but it won’t get you to an A
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Amazon can’t quit Bezos’ drone dream
In today's edition: Amazon drones, Stripe OpenRouter, Google Marvell deal, Meta trial, OpenAI IPO, SpaceX Cognition,…
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Venezuela oil minister to U.S. companies: ‘It’s an entire world waiting to be discovered’
Smaller, private U.S. oil producers are beginning to ink deals in Venezuela as the dilapidated energy industry evolves.
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Meta faces a $1.4 trillion threat that could mean ‘turning in the keys and walking away’—but the stakes of the case reach across tech
The $1.4 trillion figure may be unlikely, but the case could give states a new way to challenge how social media…
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Companies are spending trillions on AI. The C-suite doesn’t know who is in charge of it
Boards, CEOs, and the executives who report to them are sharply divided on who owns AI.
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Teachers in one of San Francisco’s richest suburbs are so underpaid that a philanthropist just gave each of them $9,161
Local philanthropist Maja Kristin donated $1 million to fill the gap in teacher salaries.
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‘Buyers aren’t yet opening their wallets’: AI-generated assets are flooding marketplaces, but consumers are snubbing them for human-made products
In 3D model marketplace CGTrader, AI-generated assets made up one-sixth of newly uploaded models, but just 2.6% of…
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In this economy, millennials and Gen Z would rather break up than date someone in debt: ‘There’s a pretty big divide’
Nearly half of Americans say a partner's debt is a dealbreaker, and younger generations are the pickiest of all.
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Amazon isn’t giving up on Jeff Bezos’ drone deliveries dream—and after 13 years of turbulence, the momentum is finally shifting
The e-commerce giant announced it is expanding drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of this…
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Bitcoin posts surprise rally as currency nears $70,000 for the first time since June
The U.S. Treasury’s bond-buyback announcement helped send Bitcoin up nearly 6% with one analyst saying a broader…
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Google and the UK think changing flights paths could cut down on climate change
A 30-month, $6.76 million trial will nudge hundreds of flights off course over the Atlantic to test whether contrails…
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Pentagon pushes ‘zero tolerance’ audit on foreign university partnerships that ‘compromise our national security’
Schools must complete a review and terminate arrangements deemed problematic—or face funding losses.
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Geopolitical risk needs to move away from the ‘after-dinner speaker’: Eurasia Group and Rio Tinto’s Dominic Barton
Eurasia Group counselor Dominic Barton says corporate leaders can no longer treat geopolitics as a boardroom sideshow…
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The new head of America’s top children’s hospital sees ‘the dawn of a new era’ for kid cancer treatment
St. Jude CEO Dr. Charles W. M. Roberts said he believes this is a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to achieve the dream…
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Trump threatens to bomb Oman, widening the war that crippled the global economy
The oil chokepoint is under fire from multiple directions as Trump pushes Oman for a tougher line on Iran shipping…
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‘Harvest their data and hide the truth from the public’: Four states seek billions from Meta over child safety practices
The suit looks to make fundamental changes to how Meta runs its social media platforms to better serve child privacy…
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National debt crosses $40 trillion and think tank warns: ‘The level of fiscal mismanagement is tragic
"To anyone who cares about America, about democracy and our future, in my view, this is already a crisis," Michael…
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A SpaceX rocket carved out a crater on the moon as long as a bowling lane with ‘butterfly wing’ streaks
It took six days before the crash scene came into view
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Texas’ screwworm could be fatal for the unadopted dogs and cats in rescue shelters statewide
“It’s thrown a wrench into things, for small rescues as well as the bigger shelters,” said Mia Bendixsen of the Texas…
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A woman inspired by Luigi Mangione to try bombing Scott Bessent gets hit with 6 years in prison
Prosecutors sought more than 10 years for Riley English, who cited mental health struggles and fears about Trump-era…
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Jimmy Kimmel feud with Trump escalates to ABC suing the FCC over threats to its broadcast licenses
“Again and again, the Administration has attacked ABC’s speech — the stories its journalists report and the viewpoints…
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Fortune 500 companies got billions in tariff refunds. Here’s who’s giving customers a cut—and who isn’t
Giants like Amazon, Target and Nike are profiting most from the Supreme Court's tariff ruling without committing to…
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American Airlines is finally bringing back seatback screens after nearly 10 years in a premium push to win back customers
American is coping with a massive profit gap to competitors amid rising jet fuel costs and a movement towards luxury…
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How KFC and Taco Bell’s top technologist is embracing AI and automation across 63,000 restaurants
The top technologist at Yum Brands, Jim Dausch, is embracing AI and automation across 63,000 restaurants.
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Moderna’s and Merck’s personalized mRNA vaccine shows real promise against deadly skin cancer melanoma in late stage trial and sends stocks soaring
The shot, paired with Merck's Keytruda, cut the risk of melanoma recurrence in a trial of more than 1,100 patients.
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A Democratic Socialist just defeated a central figure in Trump’s first impeachment trial in a Florida primary
Alexander Vindman congratulated Angie Nixon for running a strong campaign: "I will be standing by her side in the fight…
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‘Often flying blind’: Up to $246 million of taxpayer-funded CDC programs are largely unstaffed
The Office on Smoking and Health, the epilepsy program, sickle cell disease data collection operation, the rape…
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