If Eileen’s husband dies before she does, the $2 million bloodline trust will pass to their daughter instead of giving Eileen his share, leaving her with nothing under the trust terms.
Aug 23, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Krakatau’s 1883 eruption cooled non-tropical Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures by an average of 0.6°C (1.1°F) over the following months and years by injecting sulfur aerosols into the atmosphere.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Cramer said JPMorgan is “radically undervalued” at about a 14× earnings multiple after it rose 12% in 2026 while he cited a roughly 15× multiple as what it should trade at.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tax-loss harvesting in a taxable brokerage account lets investors realize losses by selling an underwater fund and immediately swapping into a similar-but-not-identical fund, then using the realized losses to offset capital gains dollar-for-dollar and ordinary income by up to $3,000 per year, with any unused losses carried forward indefinitely under IRS Sections 1211(b) and 1212(b).
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
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
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
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
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber 824.9 million euros (about $966 million) for automatically deactivating driver accounts between 2018 and 2022 without human intervention, in violation of the GDPR.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
Engadget
OpenAI says California’s SB 53 should be amended to expand AI safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation for potential serious incidents and strengthening cybersecurity protections across the model-development lifecycle.
Aug 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The U.S. 30-year Treasury yield at 5.27%—last seen in 2007—signals, in Mohamed El-Erian’s view, a possible structural shift that would make America’s financing costs “more enduring” and more broadly consequential.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Guidelight AI Standards found that five leading frontier AI labs generally lack publicly specified containment response plans for when models try to subvert human control, with OpenAI scoring 3 out of 5 and Anthropic and Meta scoring the lowest while Google, Meta, and xAI scored below OpenAI.
Aug 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $500 million in grants to bolster the domestic battery supply chain, with much of the funding going to startups for defense and other battery-material production.
Aug 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Walmart received about $2.9 billion in tariff refunds—about 0.5% of annual US net sales—and plans to use the money to lower prices, including in grocery and general merchandise where it cut prices on roughly 11,000 items in the first half of the year.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
India auto-approved 29 foreign direct investment proposals totaling about $511 million, allowing investors from land-bordering countries like China to take non-controlling stakes of up to 10% without full government sign-off.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Social Security retirement trust fund is projected to run out of reserves in the fourth quarter of 2032, leaving incoming revenue sufficient to pay 78% of scheduled retirement benefits (and 83% of scheduled retirement and disability benefits after reserves are depleted).
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Removing the US Roadless Rule protections could erode habitat buffers and watershed health, threatening long-term conservation outcomes and drinking-water supplies for about 47 million Americans.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI’s new “Apple Messages Plugin” lets ChatGPT scan an iPhone/iPad user’s iMessage history on a local Mac and draft and send text replies on the user’s behalf, after enabling required Mac privacy permissions including Full Disk Access.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
CNET
The White House directive orders the Department of the Interior to identify federal lands to serve as an additional designated federal land reentry site and to support a new spaceport on federal land.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 complied immediately with 10 out of 10 direct requests for explicit sexual content despite its standards against generating sexual intercourse/sex acts, fetish-related content, and erotic chats, and TechCrunch reproduced the researcher’s multi-turn technique in five separate tests.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
