Futures are mixed ahead of a big week for major retailers as new questions emerge about the state of the U.S. consumer, a major engine powering the American economy. The S&P 500 edged 0.1% higher, while Dow Jones Industrial Average futures slipped 0.2%. Nasdaq futures gained 0.5%. U.S. stocks hit an all-time high last week despite some
Stray Kids have scored their biggest sales week yet as their latest, “This & That,” becomes their ninth No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The group bows atop the chart with 369,000 equivalent album units, with traditional album sales accounting for 357,000 of that sum. The latest feat extends their record for most No. 1s
Anthropic is trying to calm everyone down over its new watermark. The company sparked a wave of discourse this week when it updated a support page for its Claude model to reveal its plans to mark AI-generated text as AI-generated. Now, after concerns from Claude users, Anthropic has published a blog post on Friday that
The summer heat rages on, but so do the new movies and TV shows landing on streaming services this week. We’ve scoured the latest releases to highlight the five best new movies and TV shows streaming the weekend of August 14, 2026. This week’s line-up includes an action flick starring Bob Odenkirk, along with Sunny
Michael Burry says the seemingly unassailable positivity around AI reminds him of the dot-com and housing bubbles — and warns the mania could have far more devastating consequences than Enron’s collapse. A subscriber to Burry’s Substack told him in a chat thread this week that it felt like “we are witnessing a massive coordinated effort
Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the “coming weeks” to “pursue other opportunities,” she said in a team note posted to LinkedIn. Dali Rajic, president and COO of Wiz, will be taking over the