by John Hill | Jul 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
The legal battle against the fast-growing prediction markets sector continues to heat up. On Friday, New York became the latest state to put a halt to the markets, filing a petition that accuses industry leader Kalshi of operating an unlicensed gambling platform. The...
by John Hill | Jul 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
Chevron reported its largest quarterly net profit ever—$12.1 billion—on Friday as the Big Oil giants demonstrate how they’re reaping the rewards of the Iran war’s oil and gas supply disruptions worldwide. ExxonMobil’s $14.5 billion second-quarter income and Shell’s...
by John Hill | Jul 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
As wildfires rage in France and Spain and a renewed heat wave is bearing down on Western Europe, a prolonged drought half a continent away is setting record low water levels on one of Europe’s largest rivers, disrupting tourism and industry and confronting residents...
by John Hill | Jul 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
For months, Amazon would not say whether it planned to seek a refund on the tariffs President Donald Trump imposed under emergency powers. In May, that silence became a legal problem when consumers filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in Seattle, arguing they...
by John Hill | Jul 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
Anthropic has said that its Claude models broke out of what was supposed to be an isolated testing environment and gained unauthorized access to the systems of three real organizations. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the second major AI lab this month to...
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