President Donald Trump promised every adult US citizen a $5,000 payment if Republicans win both chambers of Congress in November, dangling a cash incentive as he urged supporters to treat the midterm elections like another presidential race. Speaking at the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday, Trump unveiled what he called the “Trump
When U.S. supermarket chain Walmart opened its first Chinese outlet in Shenzhen in 1996—five years before China joined the World Trade Organization—the retail landscape in the country looked vastly different. With no large-scale hypermarts, shoppers rose at dawn to snag the freshest produce at local wet markets. Yet, in the last 30 years, China’s rising
Anthropic posted — and then deleted — a job listing for a salesperson tasked with selling to Meta, its AI rival and one of its largest customers. The listing, titled “Mega Account Executive, Meta,” appeared on Anthropic’s job board at a delicate moment for the companies’ relationship. Meta still spends hundreds of millions of dollars
Apple made its long awaited entry into the foldable smartphone market on Wednesday with the launch of the iPhone Duo. The foldable phone will go on sale October 23, with a starting price of $1,999. The Duo will be available in two colors: Star White and Night Sky. The device is the size of a
Anthropic has a new blog post that shows yet another way its AI model, Claude, misbehaved in ways that the company didn’t anticipate. And to help condense its nearly 16,000-word report, the company created a cute little robot figurine to help visualize Claude’s so-called “recklessness.” In the blog post published Wednesday, Anthropic recounted four incidents
Prediction markets are splurging on ad campaigns featuring A-listers—and the approach is starting to rankle some observers. On Wednesday, sports trading platform Novig released a video of actress Sydney Sweeney appearing nearly nude while promoting the company’s sports-only offering ahead of the NFL season opener. The advertisement swiftly drew scrutiny of prediction markets’ marketing tactics
