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AI Infrastructure and Consumer Names Lead the Midday Movers
AI infrastructure stocks surged on stronger revenue and margin guidance, Wendy's jumped on reports of a Trian take-priva...
Goldman: Japan's $1 Trillion Dollar Reserve Buffer Can Fund More Yen Intervention
Goldman Sachs strategists say Japan's cash reserves and access to a Fed repo facility leave room for repeated yen-buying...
South Korea’s Kospi Enters Bull Market as AI Memory-Chip Trade Rebounds
The Kospi has climbed roughly 23% from its late-July low, pushing it into a technical bull market as Samsung Electronics...
OpenAI-Backed Thrive Holdings Raises $2B to Push AI Into Physical Infrastructure
The $12B-valuation AI roll-up will add a physical-assets compliance platform, backed by SoftBank, D1 and Altimeter, afte...
Yen Slides Back Toward 160 as Markets Question Next US-Japan Intervention
The dollar-yen rate has retraced about half of its post-intervention move, putting Washington and Tokyo under pressure t...
Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner Buy Lakers at $12.5 Billion Valuation
The former Disney CEO and Thrive Capital founder take control of the Lakers from Mark Walter less than a year after his ...
Trump Sued Over $100,000-a-Month Early Access to Truth Social Posts
Two press-freedom groups are asking a Manhattan federal court to stop Truth API, alleging the president is selling prefe...
Why AI Citations Are Making Freight Press Releases Matter Again
A LeadCoverage test logged 1,058 AI citations in one quarter and found releases built around hard numbers earned 3.5x mo...
Hidden Brain Repair System: Astrocytes Rebuild Damaged Networks in Mouse Study
Mouse study reveals specialized astrocytes can rebuild damaged brain networks by moving new nuclei into injured areas, c...
Ancient Vietnamese Remains Suggest Yaws, Not Syphilis, Can Pass From Mother to Child
Three children buried in Vietnam more than 3,500 years ago show congenital treponemal infection, weakening a key diagnos...
Brent Tops $90 as Reduced Hormuz Traffic and US-Iran War Drive Oil Higher
Brent crude has risen more than $5 a barrel this week to exceed $90 as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains red...
German Inflation Hits 2.8% as Fuel and Heating Oil Prices Jump
German inflation rose to 2.8% in July as fuel and heating oil prices surged after a temporary tax cut ended. Economists ...
Germany's Per-Capita Hours Slip as Men and Under-55s Cut Back
Average weekly hours per 20–64-year-old fell 0.3 below the 2023 record, driven by men and middle-aged workers; over-60s ...
Germany Pays 19 North Sea Fishers €12m to Quit as Shrimp Fleet Shrinks 30%
Germany has approved €12m to pay 19 North Sea crab and flatfish operators to surrender licences and scrap cutters by mid...
Norway's $2.3tn Oil Fund Turns a Q1 Loss Into a $184bn Half-Year Gain
The world's largest sovereign fund reported a 9.4% first-half return, lifted by Asian tech stocks after a €58bn first-qu...
Google's Pixel 11 Lineup Arrives With Price Hikes, Pixel Watch 5 and a $29 Tracker
Google's new Pixel 11 phones start at $899 and go on sale August 20, alongside the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel Tag. Here's w...
Washington Man Ordered to Repay $24,248 in Idaho Auto Insurance Fraud Case
Jeremy Joshua Antone pleaded guilty after claiming a 2024 collision knocked out all his teeth for an $80,000 dental insu...
New Fed Chair Warsh Faces Early Fire Over Communication, But El-Arian Defends Reform Push
Former Fed officials and columnists question Kevin Warsh's public silence; FT commentator Mohamed El-Arian argues the pu...
DAX's April 2025 Sell-Off Was Endogenous, Athens Study Finds
A University of West Attica study finds the German DAX was already in a fragile 'critical period' before the U.S. tariff...
Russia’s New-Build Prices Trail Inflation as Mass Discounts Stay Off the Table
Primary-market prices rose 3.6% in H1 2026, below 4.2% inflation. Analysts see no mass discounts, but demand is shifting...
T-Bank's IT Picnic Draws 30,000 as Tech Hiring and Community Building Converge
The fourth T-Bank IT Picnic at Kolomenskoye drew 30,000 IT specialists and families for lectures, partner zones, sports ...
Russia and Syria Agree to Convert Hmeimim and Tartus Bases Into Joint Centres
Russia and Syria will turn the Hmeimim and Tartus military sites into joint training centres under Syrian civilian contr...
Putin Orders Russian Navy to Mirror Western Seizures of Merchant Ships
Russia says it will detain and confiscate cargo from vessels of unfriendly states in response to Western seizures of its...
Viant's Proprietary Data Surge Collides With Ad Tech's Fast-Accelerating M&A Wave
Viant’s 34% revenue jump, a wave of $2bn ad tech deals and TIME’s chatbot-influence ad backlash signal the end of neutra...
Uruguay's Carrasco Yacht Returns as a $2m Lakeside Events Hub
The Canelones events brand is rebuilding on a Lake Calcagno public concession, with 30-plus events already booked ahead ...
Source Feed Corruption Leaves Japan Stat Report Unreadable
A crawled Japanese-language item from Stat (JP) arrived as garbled mojibake with no verifiable facts; NewsFormal cannot ...
Tyler Austin Harper on Race, Tokenism and What Went Wrong at Bates
The former Bates professor and Atlantic writer explains why he now sees the campus DEI consensus as a threat to academic...
Virtual TACUNA Program Cuts Cannabis and Alcohol Use in American Indian and Alaska Native Young Adults
An NIH-funded randomized trial found that the virtual, culturally grounded TACUNA program reduced cannabis use, alcohol ...
Cannabis Use Stays at Record Highs as U.S. Adults Shift to Vaping and Pouches
The 2025 Monitoring the Future study shows cannabis near record levels, surging nicotine pouch use, and a small but sign...
AI-Cheating Tools Can Now Fake the Writing Process, Not Just the Essay
A professor's experiment shows auto-typers and 'humanizers' can counterfeit Google Docs version history—and why detectio...