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The New Washington Temptation: Inside Information and a Prediction Market Account
WASHINGTON—Alarm bells went off inside the White House Counsel's Office earlier this year when anonymous Polymarket accounts first bet five-figure sums that President Trump and Iran would agree to an initial ceasefire by the end of April.
Trump Media (NYSE: DJT) To Sell Wall Street Priority Access To Trump's Market-Moving Truth Social Posts
Trump Media & Technology Group (NYSE: DJT), the company behind Truth Social, is launching a paid service that gives financial firms faster access to posts capable of moving markets. Starting August 1, the new “Truth API” service will…
Cotton Futures Fade into the Weekend
Cotton futures saw weakness extend to Friday, with contracts closing down 62 to 89 points on the day, with December down 291 points this week. Crude oil was up another $3.50 per barrel, with the US dollar index up 0.011. Friday afternoon's…
5 Disadvantages Of Buying Smart Glasses In 2026
The era of smart glasses is here — sort of. Meta's glasses have been very successful over the past few years despite privacy concerns, and several players have been releasing their own versions. However, unlike smartphones, smartwatches, or…
Taco Bell and other major chains are taking a hit from the cyclospora outbreak, early foot traffic data shows
Fewer diners visited Taco Bell and lettuce-heavy restaurants, including Panera, as a cyclospora outbreak grew late last week. Early data from location intelligence firm Placer.ai shows that US foot traffic at some of these chains began to decline…
Trump media asks for $100,000 per month for access to Truth posts
President Donald Trump's social media company has discussed charging Wall Street traders and investment firms as much as $100,000 for early access to the president's Truth Social posts and those of other influential figures, according to multiple…
Your personal data is for sale: here is how to take it off the internet
If you could go back to the early days of the internet, would you handle your privacy differently? Most of us would. We would be more cautious about the services we joined and the information we shared. Since a time machine is not an option, we…
EU Orders Google To Open Android To ChatGPT And Other AI Rivals
The European Union is forcing Google to open two of it most valuable vaults, Android and Google Search. Under a pair of binding measures tied to the Digital Markets Act, the European Commission is ordering Google to give rival search engines and AI…
5% Bond Returns Are a Gift for Retirement Investors. My Favorite Way to Invest in Treasurys Lets You Earn a Paycheck No Matter What the Market Does.
I have been in the investing business long enough to look at today's fixed-income landscape and see an absolute gift. After more than a decade of being starved for yield by the Federal Reserve, the bond market is finally offering us a clean, honest…
Friday Footnotes: OpenAI CFO Says Don't Sweat Token Costs; Seems Everyone and Their Manager Is Polishing Up Resumes | 7.17.26
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Truth Social's New Plan to Make Money May Be 'Egregious,' But Will Face Little Oversight
By now, you may have heard that the company behind Truth Social, Trump Media and Technology Group, plans to sell extra-fast access to the most influential posts on the platform to high-paying clients. Trump is the most-followed person on Truth…
Wrapped In Mattresses, Pushed 3000 Feet Downhill: How Thieves Stole 400-Year-Old Cannon Weighing 3,500 Kg From Historic Narwar Fort
Shivpuri: A nearly 400-year-old cannon weighing around 3,500 kg has been stolen from the historic Narwar Fort in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district. The carefully planned theft, carried out on the night of July 15, has exposed serious lapses in the…
China's Kimi K3 AI challenges ChatGPT and Claude with open-source breakthrough
Another powerful new artificial intelligence model from China took the US tech industry by surprise Friday, the latest sign that Chinese startups that publicly release their “open-source” AI technology are making the California titans…
How China stole voter registration from 220 million US citizens: Documents
A document in the White House release, titled “200M Voter Records Compromised,” says a 45-gigabyte database contained 204,822,241 U.S. voter records from 2016. The report's third page states the database included voters' names, ages…
DR. PHONE FIX ANNOUNCES SECOND TRANCHE CLOSING OF NON-BROKERED CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURE UNIT FINANCING
/NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES/ EDMONTON, AB, July 18, 2026 /CNW/ -- Dr. Phone Fix Canada Corporation ('Dr. Phone Fix' or the 'Company') (TSXV: DPF) is pleased to announce that, further to…
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