Apple’s MacBook price hikes raised the starting price of the 14-inch MacBook Pro from $1,699 to $1,999 (16-inch from $2,699 to $2,999), the 13-inch MacBook Air by $200 to $1,299, and the 15-inch MacBook Air by $200 to $1,499.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
CNET
Interest payments on the U.S. national debt have reached nearly $1.2 trillion this year, making up the largest federal expense after Social Security and Medicare, and equaling about $4,000 per American per year (or $16,000 per year for a family of four), according to Rep. Thomas Massie.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Bloomberg reported the DOJ has been investigating Andreessen Horowitz for nearly a year over whether it holds board seats with rival AI companies, and multiple VCs said they were baffled that this conflict would rise to the top of DOJ priorities.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
David Einhorn’s DME Capital Management bought 1.42 million PayPal (PYPL) shares in Q2 worth $61.5 million as of June 30.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Today’s NYT Strands (Aug. 23, #903) uses the spangram THEODYSSEY and the theme “An epic journey,” with all theme words filling the full board when completed.
Aug 22, 2026 ·CNET
Apple’s trade-in list says the oldest iPhone it will still give credit for is the iPhone 8 (2017), which is worth $35 in “Good” condition.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
Engadget
Google Search & other revenue rose 17% year over year to $63.3B in Q2, slightly below Wall Street’s $63.4B expectations, as Search growth decelerated from a prior streak that reached 19% growth in Q1 2026 to slower growth in Q2.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Snowflake reported $1.39B revenue in Q1 fiscal 2027 (+33% year-over-year) and raised its full-year fiscal 2027 product revenue outlook to $5.84B (+31% year-over-year).
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A $735,000 401(k) rollover equating to a $4,300 monthly paycheck ($51,600/year) requires a roughly 7% blended portfolio yield, otherwise the same income target is much harder to sustain.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Energy Transfer’s distribution yield is 6.3%, but the article notes it cut its distribution in half in 2020 during the energy downturn and says the key question is whether it can sustain its payout if oil prices crash again.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Trump made more than 1,000 securities trades in June, with transactions totaling between $78.1 million and $263.1 million in his disclosure range filings.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Third Point sold Broadcom (AVGO) shares during Q2, and the firm’s exit is driving renewed concerns among investors after AVGO’s strong 2026 run.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Clean energy capital expenditures are already $74 billion in the first half of 2026 and are on track to hit a record $180 billion by year-end, despite rollbacks to Biden- and Obama-era clean energy incentives.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Inherent’s Faraday AI agent independently replicated published scientific papers using a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model, outperforming Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 on that task.
Aug 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
California and Paramount are set to hold preliminary talks on Monday about a potential settlement path for California’s lawsuit to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
QDPL (Pacer Metaurus US Large Cap Dividend Multiplier 400 ETF) pays about a 4.42% annual yield—roughly 4x SPY’s ~1%—via monthly distributions (12 payments vs. SPY’s 4) while trailing SPY’s year-to-date return by only 28 basis points.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
KFC closed 300 restaurants in a year, and Local Falcon analysis found at least 312 of its U.S. restaurants permanently closed between July 15, 2025, and July 6, 2026—reducing the chain’s American footprint by 7.64%.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
BankUnited CFO James G. Mackey sold/withheld 3,517 shares at a $46.83 weighted-average price on Aug. 20, 2026, totaling about $164,000 in proceeds and occurring after the stock had risen 29% over the prior year.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Oracle’s fiscal Q4 revenue rose 21% YoY to $19.2 billion, EPS (ex-items) increased 24% YoY to $2.11, and cloud revenue grew 47% YoY to $9.9 billion—while remaining performance obligations (RPO) jumped 363% YoY to $638 billion, driven largely by large-scale AI contracts.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Amazon has cut Chipolo Loop Bluetooth trackers to $33 (from $39), the lowest price since launch.
Aug 22, 2026 ·CNET
