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Social platform operator, public since March 2024, being added to the S&P 500 before the August 18 open; reported Q2 net income of $253 million on revenue of $805 million.
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404 Media reports a wave of minimally altered real photographs of celebrities on X, posted by monetized engagement accounts. The tell reporters and moderators leaned on, implausible context, is gone.
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An undisclosed pay-to-continue prompt appears at the moment of lockout, and the weekly cap it lifts is never shown to users as a number they could plan around.
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Google says the first version of its Advanced Flow is rolling out for installs from unverified developers. The reported announcement carries no criteria, no dates and no scope.
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WIRED took a counterfeit Oyster Perpetual into the Old Bond Street flagship for a bracelet adjustment. Staff sized it, praised it, and bagged the spare links.
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iPullRank's Q3 2026 panel puts ChatGPT sixth among Google destinations by clicks but first by paid share. An AI assistant is now visible in the auctions marketers already pay to win.
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Home Depot, Target and Walmart report on consecutive mornings into a thin data calendar. Their guidance, not the macro releases, is where tariff pass-through shows up first.
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The 11% pop in extended trading is index trackers filling an order. The stock is still down 31% for the year, and the reason it fell has not been fixed.
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Cringebot 3000 turns one word and one of eight preset styles into executive wisdom. LinkedIn's answer so far is a button that lets users report AI slop.
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J.P. Morgan puts the required index-fund purchase at 16.7 million shares, close to three normal sessions of volume. The business and the buying are on separate tracks.
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