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Jeff Bezos has entered his sports ownership era.On Friday, Liverpool Football Club, one of the English Premier League’s so-called “Big Six” clubs, announced that Fenway Sports Group sold a minority…
Anthropic is trying to calm everyone down over its new watermark.The company sparked a wave of discourse this week when it updated a support page for its Claude model to reveal its plans to mark AI-generated text as AI-generated. Now,…
A new filing in a lawsuit from a fired WPP executive alleges that Sony, one of the ad giant’s major partners, investigated the company and concluded it had improperly withheld rebates from clients.The lawsuit says that Sony presented the findings…
I thought our family budget was airtight. We tracked our spending, cooked at home, and rarely splurged. Yet, every month, our checking account felt like it had a slow leak. Out of sheer frustration, I uploaded a raw spreadsheet of…
Tech analyst Ben Thompson says requiring AI companies to be transparent about the content their models produce is missing the mark.Thompson tore into the European Union AI Act, which Anthropic cited as the reason it will add watermarks to content in Claude-generated files and text.In his widely read “Stratechery” newsletter,…
For the first time in 2026, EV prices are rising.In July, the average transaction price for a new fully electric vehicle jumped to $56,126, per Kelley Blue Book. That’s a 1.6% increase compared to the same month in 2025, and a 1.2% rise compared to June.The increase breaks a monthslong…
It’s tempting to order take-out or make a frozen pizza for dinner, but making a restaurant-quality dish at home isn’t as much of a hassle as you might think.Just ask…
It’s a tough environment for a founder trying to build the next-generation Facebook.With more apps than ever and the mainstay social media giants dominating people’s screen time, the competition is…
Anthropic’s move to watermark Claude-generated text is driving some users away from its AI assistant.The AI lab said this week that some versions of Claude will embed an “imperceptible watermark” directly into their text output. It will travel with the…
AMR Studio / Shutterstock.comDo you love your neighborhood grocery store and buy everything you need there? If so, your local grocery store probably loves you too. It loves that you’re willing to spend so much on items you could get…
I loved the colorful, artsy town of Kinsale.Nishtha ChaudharyI spent a year living in Dublin and traveling across Ireland as a student.During that time, four spots — including Howth and Kinsale — stood out to me as must-visit places.However, I…
Buying second passports was once largely the preserve of the superrich, but one investment migration firm says that’s changing as more middle-class Americans shop for them.The investment migration industry has traditionally catered to those who can afford the six or…
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Elon Musk’s long battle with Tesla’s striking workers in Sweden is finally coming to an end.On Thursday, IF Metall said it is suspending its nearly three-year industrial action against Tesla, effective August 19, after the company bought out all of…
My son is 12, almost 13. I always prided myself on having an awesome relationship with him, so it’s difficult to admit that some of…
Peter Lauwers used to swing by McDonald’s to buy dinner for his family on busy weeknights.A few years ago, though, the Michigan-based father, who runs…
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“I never want to own a house.”That’s what I had said, confidently, for years. After growing up assuming I’d own a house one day, I realized, like most millennials, I might never be able to comfortably afford one.I decided to…
I flew more than 100,000 miles last year for my job as an aviation content creator, making airports and airplanes feel almost like a second…
The burger wars are heating up.Burger King’s second-quarter US same-store sales jumped 8.5%, while McDonald’s growth lagged at 0.8% and Wendy’s went backward, falling 7%.It’s…
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Summer is winding down, but you may still want your car looking good before the season ends. With new car prices approaching $50,000, many owners want to keep their vehicles looking their best for years to come. According to Consumer…
You took a $100,000 distribution by check from your 401(k) and are now wondering if the IRS will penalize you. The answer depends on whether you completed the rollover correctly. A check isn’t necessarily problematic, but missing this deadline could…
On August 5, chief AI scientist Jeff Dean announced he was leaving Google after 27 years. Google proceeded to lose ~$180 billion in market cap, making this the largest impact I’ve ever seen by one employee departing. He’s co-founding Discovery…
Here’s a number worth your attention: The share of travelers over 50 who use artificial intelligence to hunt for travel deals just doubled in a single year, from 8% to 16%. That’s straight from AARP’s 2026 Travel Trends report. Translation?…
No one wants to hear from a colleague that they monopolized a meeting or failed to get their point across — and few colleagues want to be the one to share that with their boss.While thoughtful feedback can be valuable,…
Michael Burry says the seemingly unassailable positivity around AI reminds him of the dot-com and housing bubbles — and warns the mania could have far more devastating consequences than Enron’s collapse.A subscriber to Burry’s Substack told him in a chat…
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Ask a tech worker about their biggest career regret, and they might have a hard time picking just one.In a fast-changing, highly competitive industry, it’s easy to second-guess career decisions — and wonder whether another path might have been the…
It used to be that if you’re the type of person who always has a job, you’re the type of person who can always find a job.But a new analysis of job-finding rates complicates that picture. The study from the…
Turns out, AI agents may not be great team players.In Anthropic’s new research, published on Thursday, the AI lab said that AI agents being given the same task but with incompatible goals often threw a wrench in each other’s work…
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