The composition of Anthropics workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year, according to a report that the AI company published on Friday.
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The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

TechCrunch

Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings - TechCrunch

The Wall Street Journal

SoftBank in Early Talks to Buy Allied Universal - WSJ

Hundreds of you weighed in after I wrote that the style is in decline. Here’s what you had to say.

Cool or Cringe? Readers Sound Off on the State of Midcentury Modern Design - WSJ

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It may even out-muscle the Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric and Lucid Gravity.
It may even out-muscle the Porsche Cayenne Turbo Electric and Lucid Gravity.
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Mercedes-AMG announced the new GT SUV, its first electric SUV built in-house, from the ground up.

The Verge

Mercedes-AMG’s first ground-up SUV is a 1,150hp electric beast - The Verge

The federal governments fiscal year ended last month, and the final tally offered another stark warning about the trajectory of U.S. debt.According to Treasury Department data released on Friday, the… [+4370 chars]

Net interest payments rose 8% to $1.05 trillion in fiscal year 2026, while revenue increased 3% to $5.4 trillion and spending grew 6% to $7.4 trillion.

Fortune

US debt interest costs hit $3 billion a day and jumped 8% in 2026—faster than spending, revenue, GDP - Fortune

TheStreet

Heating oil prices will break the bank in the Northeast this winter - TheStreet

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Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Metas terms.
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Language that experts say allowed the scraping of news sites to train its AI has been removed from Meta’s terms.

Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites - The Verge

Investors may want to rethink their bond allocation and opt for managed futures exposure.
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Investors may want to rethink their bond allocation and opt for managed futures exposure.

CNBC

'Dead money’ for a decade: Why this hedge fund approach may deliver an advantage over bonds - CNBC

Junk bond buyers are increasingly freezing out tech startups looking for financing, as CoreWeave Inc.s pain raises bigger questions about how artificial intelligence companies will fund themselves.
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Junk bond buyers are increasingly freezing out tech startups looking for financing, as CoreWeave Inc.’s pain raises bigger questions about how artificial intelligence companies will fund themselves.

Bloomberg

CoreWeave Woes Risk Shutting Down AI Junk Market: Credit Weekly - Bloomberg.com

Three decades ago, when Kelly Schultz announced his intention to start a pumpkin farm, "everybody laughed at me," he says. Schultz, a second-generation antique seller, had no prior experience with fa… [+7363 chars]

Kelly Schultz bought a pumpkin farm in 1996. He transformed it into a seasonal attraction that draws in 100,000 visitors each fall.

'Everyone laughed' when he started a pumpkin farm—now it brings in $2 million a year - CNBC

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OpenAI, Meta, and Google want AI agents to do everything for you. But popular services on the web arent letting that happen.
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OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others are positioning AI agents as personal assistants that can perform a range of tasks online. But the web is becoming increasingly unfriendly toward agents, undermining their usefulness.

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents - The Verge

In his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made the cost of energy a centerpiece.
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In his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made the cost of energy a centerpiece.

Trump Faces Midterm Fuel Reckoning as Gas Prices Near Biden’s Average - Bloomberg.com

Elon Musk tells biographer Walter Isaacson in a new podcast interview that the fizzled DOGE experiment, which the SpaceX and Tesla CEO once headed, proved there's "no way we were gonna solve the defi… [+3558 chars]

Musk said DOGE proved there's "no way we were gonna solve the deficit from within the government."

Axios

Exclusive: Musk tells Isaacson "AI and robots" will need to fix deficit - Axios

Guests during the Bending Spoons initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. 
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Less than four months into life as a public company, Bending Spoons got a big vote of confidence this week from Berkshire Hathaway.

Software’s new consolidator gets big vote of confidence from Berkshire - CNBC

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<ul><li>Huang declared "all of this is going to pass" as Nvidia slid just 1% while the broader tech sector lost over $1 trillion in a single day.
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Tech stocks shed over a trillion dollars in a single session while oil and Treasury yields climbed, yet Nvidia's CEO stood in Berlin projecting calm certaint...

24/7 Wall St.

Nvidia’s CEO Says “All of This Is Going to Pass” After Tech Lost $1 Trillion in a Day - Yahoo Finance

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., is warning that the "clock is ticking" for Social Security as higher cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) could accelerate the depletion of the program’s trust fund, adding urg… [+2361 chars]

Sen. Bill Cassidy warns the 3.6% Social Security COLA could drain the trust fund faster, leaving Congress roughly five and a half years to act before retirees face steep benefit cuts.

Fox Business

Senator warns ‘clock is ticking’ as Social Security funds run dry - Fox Business

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking another run at defining ultraprocessed foods, a longtime target of his Make America Healthy Again movement.
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Ultraprocessed foods are an enemy of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement.