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Artificial Intelligence: How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?Gaming: Microsoft, Please Don’t Ruin MinecraftSports: Kalshi’s Weather Delay Bets Raise Regulatory QuestionsPersonal Finance & Markets: Trump makes the stock market his scoreboard, but many Americans aren't even in the game - ReutersEntertainment & Streaming: ‘Elle’ Bosses on Lexi Minetree’s Elle Woods Transformation and How the Late James Van Der Beek Rewrote His Character’s EndingHealth & Wellness: Can You Actually ‘Boost’ Your Metabolism?Technology & Gadgets: 'The thing that's amazing to me is this was 3D-printed': Pentagon's SciTech supremo describes future of warfare where projectiles are made up of coconut husks and coffee groundsBusiness & Startups: Lockheed Martin, Rheinmetall to jointly produce ATACMS missiles in Germany - ReutersPolitics & Policy: Wall Street banks rule on staff betting on prediction markets, sources say - ReutersCreator Economy & Social Media: White House taps the guy who keeps crying ‘aliens’ to run UFO group
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Artificial Intelligence

Models, tools, power shifts, and policy.

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The U.S. government's process for evaluating OpenAI's frontier model safety remains opaque, with little public disclosure about the dialogue between regulators and AI companies. Officials have not clarified what specific criteria or testing protocols determined the model was safe for release.

🎩 When the government can't explain its own homework, maybe it's because the dog ate it—or because the dog was built by the company being graded.

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OpenAI is hiring a product manager to build ChatGPT experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults. The role signals a strategic push to embed AI assistants deeper into household routines.

🎩 Nothing says 'move fast and break things' quite like targeting grandma and the kids simultaneously.

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Gaming

Games, platforms, studios, and culture.

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Microsoft has begun restructuring its Xbox studios with significant layoffs, prompting fears about the future direction of flagship franchises including Minecraft. The cuts span multiple development teams.

🎩 Microsoft buying studios and then gutting them is becoming a speedrun category of its own.

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Steam generated an estimated $11.1 billion in gross revenue during the first half of 2026, marking its biggest six-month period ever according to market analysts. PC gaming spending continues to accelerate despite rising hardware costs.

🎩 Eleven billion in six months, zero customer service employees hired — the Valve way.

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Personal Finance & Markets

Money, macro, markets, and consumer finance.

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Trump makes the stock market his scoreboard, but many Americans aren't even in the game - Reuters
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Michael Burry took positions in DraftKings and Flutter Entertainment, betting that regulatory crackdowns on prediction markets will benefit traditional sportsbooks. He sees Kalshi and Polymarket as facing regulatory headwinds.

🎩 Burry betting against prediction markets is deliciously meta — the guy who predicted the housing crash is now predicting a prediction-market crash.

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