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Fed’s Warsh faces new pressure to hike rates after inflation heats up

A decision to raise rates next week would come at a politically fraught time — less than two months before a midterm election that will determine control of Congress. Investors now overwhelmingly expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates next week after new data Friday showed gas prices …
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Fed’s Warsh faces new pressure to hike rates after inflation heats up

A decision to raise rates next week would come at a politically fraught time — less than two months before a midterm election that will determine control of Congress. Investors now overwhelmingly expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates next week after new data Friday showed gas prices …

What the settlement left out: Meta can still collect data from kids

In August 2026, Meta agreed to one of the largest consumer protection settlements in American history. The settlement resolves claims from 47 states …

‘We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans’: if AI labs are so worried about AI doom, why don’t they stop?

Earlier this week, researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, saying the firm and its competitors are “gambling with our lives”. “We really do earnestly …

Trump Loses the Other Strait (shared)

The Houthi advance is bad news for the U.S., and even worse news for Saudi Arabia. As recently as last week, the Iran war appeared to be turning slightly in America’s favor. The Houthis—the Yemen-based militia that is Iran’s most formidable remaining ally in the Middle East—were under pressure from …

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with integrated data sources — it pulls research, cites it, and builds decks in minutes

Every day, investment-banking analysts spend hours pulling company and market data, reconciling adjustments in Excel, checking assumptions, moving the analysis into PowerPoint and then working back through the deck to make sure every important figure can be traced to the underlying source. Now, …

Trump’s $5,000 Midterm Ploy Is Even Dumber Than It Sounds

The math is impossible, the inflation risk is real, and the plan would attract an army of scammers. DEAR LORD, DO WE REALLY have to take this …

Trump pledges $5,000 ‘dividend’ to all US adults if the GOP wins the midterms

It was not immediately clear how the plan would be financed. President Donald Trump has pledged to send $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms, a payout that would dwarf the amount distributed during the Covid pandemic and likely explode the …

2026’s El Niño is shaping up to be a doozy – it’s already affecting global shipping, fish behavior and heat

El Niño is here, and forecasters warn that it’s likely to be bigger and stronger in 2026-27 than any El Niño event recorded in at least 150 …

What Russia Is Really Up To in Europe (shared)

Moscow doesn’t want a conventional war, but it is busy fighting a hybrid one. On Russian state television, the Kremlin’s propagandists have for years threatened to bomb European capitals, even while the country’s diplomats insist that no such war is imminent. Lately, the denials have gotten hard to …

The End of U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The End of U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve By Peter Zeihan The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was created in the 70s as a safeguard against major...

Okay, Sure, a Folding iPhone (shared)

Apple needs to learn to take risks again. Nothing quickens the pulse of an Apple fan more than these three words: one more thing. Steve Jobs used the catchphrase to introduce the original iPhone in 2007. In his 15 years running the company, Tim Cook deployed it only a handful of times, including …

Saudi Oil Exports Plunge as Spread of War Shuts Off Shipping Routes (shared)

With few good options for safely shipping oil, Saudi Arabia’s exports have fallen to a 13-year low. Saudi Arabia has made several quick pivots to keep its oil flowing since the start of the U.S. war with Iran. Within weeks of Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz — once Saudi Arabia’s primary export …

New ChatGPT is world’s first human-level AI, says Nvidia boss

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has claimed that the latest version of ChatGPT marks the first instance of artificial general intelligence (AGI), or …

Oil executives are anxious about Venezuela

Big Oil companies have always moonlighted as geopolitical risk assessment firms. That capability faces a big test now. It takes guts to thrive in the …

Elon Musk Seems Legitimately Shaken Over This New Documentary

"The bully is mad." It’s no secret that Elon Musk is hiding plenty of skeletons in his closet. The mercurial billionaire has made an extensive list of …

One Failed Heart-Drug Trial Hits Ionis, Novartis and Amgen: What Happened and Why It Matters

One Failed Heart-Drug Trial Hits Ionis, Novartis and Amgen: What Happened and Why It Matters Biotechnology stocks are being punished today after a closely watched...

Revolution Medicines’ Daraxonrasib Wins FDA Approval as Rasonque: What the RAS Breakthrough Means for RVMD Investors

Revolution Medicines’ Daraxonrasib Wins FDA Approval as Rasonque: What the RAS Breakthrough Means for RVMD Investors Updated from an earlier version published before Rasonque received...

Trump Brags He’s Made ‘Hundreds of Billions’ On Stocks: ‘I Do This for Our Country’

President Donald Trump boasted Sunday that he has made “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars” on stocks and other holdings, insisting he does it for the …

Fuel prices at record Labor Day high in US thanks to Iran War and refinery issues

It’s never been more expensive in the U.S. to fill up the tank and take one last summer trip over the Labor Day weekend. The average price of regular gas was $4.14 a gallon heading into the holiday, nearly a dollar higher than last year and well above the Labor Day weekend record of $3.82 from 2012, …

The Backlash Against Data Centers

The Atlantic staff writer Josh Tyrangiel joined for a special edition of Washington Week With The Atlantic to discuss the future of AI. On a special edition of Washington Week With The Atlantic, the Atlantic staff writer Josh Tyrangiel joined for a discussion about the future of AI and what, if …

The U.S. debt tops a record-shattering $40 trillion. Yes, with a T

The federal debt topped $40 trillion Wednesday, a new high-water mark for red ink that shows no sign of receding. 'Congress is in a coma': Former members sound alarm on health of the House The news, reported by the Treasury Department in its daily financial update, comes just five months after the …

OpenAI Claims We’re in the ‘AGI Era’ With Release of GPT-6 Astra

Welcome to the beginning of... something. We are approaching the precipice of the beginning of what could be the start of the first stages of the …

Iran Rains Missiles on Kuwait as US Patriot Stockpile Nears Crisis Point

US Patriot missile interceptors are 65% depleted since the 2026 Iran war began, with no restocking possible until 2029. Treasury Secretary Bessent is …

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky. Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, …

2026’s El Niño is shaping up to be a doozy – it’s already affecting global shipping, fish behavior and heat

El Niño is here, and forecasters warn that it’s likely to be bigger and stronger in 2026-27 than any El Niño event recorded in at least 150 …

One Failed Heart-Drug Trial Hits Ionis, Novartis and Amgen: What Happened and Why It Matters

One Failed Heart-Drug Trial Hits Ionis, Novartis and Amgen: What Happened and Why It Matters Biotechnology stocks are being punished today after a closely watched...

Revolution Medicines’ Daraxonrasib Wins FDA Approval as Rasonque: What the RAS Breakthrough Means for RVMD Investors

Revolution Medicines’ Daraxonrasib Wins FDA Approval as Rasonque: What the RAS Breakthrough Means for RVMD Investors Updated from an earlier version published before Rasonque received...

A record-shattering El Niño is almost here. Here’s what that means for the world’s weather

The world is bracing for the strongest El Niño in history. The United Nations has made the grim prediction that our planet now sits in the “danger …

OpenAI Claims We’re in the ‘AGI Era’ With Release of GPT-6 Astra

Welcome to the beginning of... something. We are approaching the precipice of the beginning of what could be the start of the first stages of the …

El Niño 2026 is now the strongest in 1,000 years. Here’s what that means for your winter forecast

The projected super El Niño could bring more extreme weather to the U.S. during the hurricane season. El Niño is now the strongest it has been in 1,000 years, according to new research from the University of Michigan, which reconstructed ocean surface temperatures over the last millennium by looking …

The Truth About American Food Safety (updated, shared)

Have sprawling outbreaks become the norm? The phrase When it rains, it pours isn’t one you like to see applied to outbreaks of foodborne illness, yet here we are. The summer started with a diarrhea-causing parasite called Cyclospora cayetanensis, which infested iceberg lettuce. Then came news of Shiga …

FDA approves latest version of Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved a newly updated version of their COVID-19 …