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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

The read: A quiet slip today for stocks. The month is mixed across the indexes; Bitcoin has been climbing this month.

Sep 23 · closedPast monthTodayLevelDow−1.0%51,512Nasdaq−0.7%26,936S&P 500−0.8%7,706Bitcoin−2.1%$84,37710-yr Treasuryin points+0.155.11%

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A photo inside a Kroger store's produce section. An illustrated screen marked Sponsored reads Brands pay to reach you, and a receipt hanging from it reads What you buy helps aim the ads. Words below say you're the customer, and the audience.
September 14, 2026

Kroger's store sales barely grew, but profit from its ad business rose 24%

August 28, 2026

Salesforce is making its own screens optional: the sales work moves inside Claude

August 28, 2026

Rival AI companies signed one warning: AI cyberattacks get far more widespread within months

August 20, 2026

A gold miner pulled less metal out of the ground and made its biggest profit ever

August 19, 2026

A personalized cancer shot beat the standard melanoma treatment, and no one will say by how much

August 17, 2026

Groq raised $350 million at half the value it carried last September

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Three colleagues in a bright open-plan office beside a glass wall bearing the Visier sign. One pushes a trolley stacked with dozens of blue folders while two others hand over a cardboard document box.
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Hiring is down 24 percent, but judgment jobs are holding their value

August 15, 2026 · 3 min read
A road-crew worker in a high-visibility jacket and knit cap sits in the open side door of a work van at dusk, speaking into a slim boom microphone. A luminous blue thread of sound runs from her mouth to a ruggedised laptop resting on a toolbox, where it resolves into grey lines of finished text above a small waveform bar with reject and accept controls. Behind her a colleague works at the roadside among traffic cones and truck headlights.
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Wispr raised $280 million on a model built for noisy jobs, not quiet desks

August 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Two people work at a wooden bench in a small warehouse studio at night, stacked shipping boxes and a desk lamp behind them. A woman in the foreground taps a phone cabled to a large monitor while a man stands behind her with his arms folded, watching. The monitor shows a vertical flow of connected step cards with a checklist down one side; its own text is too small and indistinct to read. Four small blue-lit cubes sit in a row along the cable where it meets the screen.
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OpenAI turns on customer-data sharing for existing ChatGPT ad pixels August 17

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Two men walk through a mostly empty office floor at dusk, past rows of desks still sheathed in protective plastic. One carries an open laptop with the monday.com logo on its lid; the other holds a set of keys. Through a glass partition on the right a small team works at lit desks in the adjacent room, a city skyline beyond the windows, with a few thin blue lines running from the empty floor across to the occupied one.
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monday.com revenue grew 22 percent, paying teams grew 6, and the hiring office got written off

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Two men stand backstage behind a dark curtain with a lit auditorium visible through the gap beyond. The man at left, depicted as Mark Zuckerberg, watches as a younger man in a denim jacket reaches past a phone mounted on a tripod rig and points at a small blue control on its side.
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Meta is moving follower-growth tools behind its paid subscription

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Two researchers sit at a plain table on a mezzanine, heads together over a tablet showing a document, laptops and a red notebook beside them. Through the full-height glass wall behind them a crowd fills the sunlit plaza below, and as it recedes the figures resolve into repeating copies of the same few people, arranged in a grid.
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Harvard and MIT gave away 8.3 billion fake customers, and companies will test on them

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
A woman in a navy jacket sits by the window of a commuter train, scrolling a social feed on her phone. A spray of glowing nodes rises from the screen: a bright blue cluster on the left carrying profile photographs of real faces, and a dimmer teal branch on the right whose nodes are empty grey circles that fade out. Other passengers and a city skyline are visible beyond her.
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LinkedIn readers can now flag your post as AI slop, and flagged posts lose reach

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Four men sit along one side of a table in a darkened studio, watching a laptop one of them is typing on. A narrow blue line of light runs out of the laptop into a small glass lens on the table, where it re-emerges as two far broader orange beams that widen away across the surface. The man at the right of the group is depicted as Elon Musk.
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Grok 4.6 ties for third best, and the real price hides past 200,000 tokens

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
A man in a light blue blazer and chinos walks a keynote stage in front of a large blue-lit audience, a presenter's clicker in one hand. A dense cloud of blue particles streams from his hand and sweeps away to the left, narrowing to a single bright point at a stack of black equipment cases, from which one thin red line continues off to the right. Crew in black stand in the wings.
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Cisco's record year ships with another twelve months of restructuring

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
An apprentice in a high-visibility vest and hard hat and an older tradesman in sunglasses work together to fit a blue conduit into a steel manifold in a sunlit outdoor training yard. A glowing blue line runs through the joint they are making and continues along the row of workstations behind them, where more crews work in pairs. A site trailer and a United States flag stand at the back.
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Meta's free trades school now runs through the building unions, with a credential you keep

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
A technician in a white cleanroom suit and safety glasses holds a violet silicon wafer up to the light, beside a tall silver fabrication machine carrying Sony and TSMC nameplates. A blue wireframe of a robotic production line extends to the right.
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Sony's new $4.7 billion chip plant still needs money nobody has promised

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
A white electric air taxi with multiple wing-mounted rotors stands on wet tarmac at blue hour, its passenger door open and the cabin lit from within. The four tan seats inside are still sealed in factory plastic. Two men stand at the doorway inspecting the empty cabin, one in a high-visibility vest holding a folder.
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Three air taxi companies near final FAA approval, but no one can book a seat yet

August 14, 2026 · 3 min read