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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 of its investigation to WPP in 2025 in a detailed…
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 our monthly statements to a free AI chatbot and asked…
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,…
On X, not all engagement is equal.Elon Musk’s social media company on Thursday released the source code that determines how posts are recommended to users, the latest development in Musk’s quest to champion transparency on the platform.”The goal is straightforward — we want people to be able to answer for…
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on Monster. As conversations about burnout and work-life balance continue, long hours remain common across the workforce. Monster’s Workaholics Report finds that for many full-time employees, working beyond 40 hours per week is not the exception but the norm. In fact, most workers now…
Nearly two years after a failed merger with Kroger, Safeway is closing more stores, according to a statement from the chain’s parent company. Albertsons, which owns Safeway, said in a statement on Friday, Aug. 14, that the closures are part of the company’s attempts to evaluate its store network. The…
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 chef and Food Network star Alex Guarnaschelli.When I interviewed her in February 2021, she told me cauliflower “steak” is one…
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 fierce. Investors, meanwhile, are pining after flashy AI deals.There was a peak in venture capital investment in social startups in…
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 content when it is copied and pasted and may survive…
