Thousands of people who say Roundup caused their cancer were dealt a legal blow this week when the Supreme Court opted to protect the weed killer’s parent company from a flood of lawsuits. In a 7-2 decision issued on June 25, the country’s highest court said that the German pharmaceutical company Bayer can’t be sued at the state level over claims that it did not sufficiently warn consumers about cancer risks associated with the herbicide Roundup. Bayer owns Monsanto, which makes Roundup. The Supreme Court sided with Bayer, ruling that federal regulations preempt state-level lawsuits involving Roundup, the popular brand…
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AI was supposed to scale by removing humans. That was the promise. Build the product, automate the interaction, take the human out of the loop, and watch the margins compound. It was the SaaS playbook applied to intelligence. The companies putting AI into real operations are discovering the opposite. The more responsibility you give to AI, the closer you need to be to your customer. Not just at deployment, but continuously. This is the paradox of AI. It scales by moving people closer, not by removing people. AI CHANGES THE NATURE OF THE PRODUCT The old SaaS model was elegant.…
Soccer fans may soon be able to catch more than just flights while traveling this summer on one of America’s largest airlines. Just in time for the world’s largest sporting event—the FIFA World Cup—travelers will be able to stream live entertainment on some United Airlines flights with Starlink Wi-Fi, thanks to a collaboration with DirecTV. The experience, which includes a number of live TV channels, will continue through July 20 on “as many as 150 Starlink-enabled aircraft,” according to a United announcement this week. “This technology has the potential to transform how we think about the inflight experience for both…
President Donald Trump’s latest attack on mail-in voting fell apart in court this week. On June 25, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service from withholding mail-in ballots in states that refuse to give the federal government a list of their voters. The decision struck a major blow to Trump’s plan to seize more federal control over state-run elections. In March, Trump issued an executive order directing the Postal Service to restrict who receives ballots through the mail. The order was a sharp escalation in the administration’s efforts to flex federal power to influence elections, which are conducted by…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 3,005.46 points or -4.15% to 69,360.88 • Shanghai decreased 93.016 points or -2.26% to 4,027.265 • Hang Seng decreased 405.05 points or -1.76% to 22,671.86 • ASX 200 increased 15.50 points or 0.18% to 8,764.20 • SENSEX closed • Nifty50 closed The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.00134 or -0.19% to 0.68960 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00087 or -0.15% to 0.56393 • USDJPY decreased 0.036 or -0.02% to 161.754 • USDCNY increased 0.00128 or 0.02% to 6.80269 The above…
Lionel Messi just got a new 85-foot statue. While it is not the only structure built in honor of the Argentine soccer legend, it is for sure the most talked-about. Unveiled in the small town of Cutral Có, Argentina, in the Patagonia region, the player’s latest statue arrives at the same time as Messi returns to the international stage for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, as well as his 39th birthday. NEW: Argentina unveils an 85-foot tall Lionel Messi statue. pic.twitter.com/Uq9WTC8qfg— Polymarket (@Polymarket) June 25, 2026 Despite being among the largest sculptures in his honor, weighing around 60 tons and…
Billionaire investor Leon Black said Friday that Jeffrey Epstein deceived him during a yearslong relationship in which he paid the disgraced financier $158 million, but insisted he committed no criminal wrongdoing as he appeared before the House Oversight Committee. Black is the 16th person to appear before the committee as part of their broader investigation into the web of wealth and influence around Epstein. Before entering the closed-door deposition, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the House committee chairman, told reporters he believed it might be the most “groundbreaking” yet. “This could be a pretty significant deposition as we try to get answers,” said…
Media just passed a notable milestone. For the first time, people now get their news from social media and video networks like YouTube more than from any other source. That comes from the most recent Reuters Institute Digital News Report, now in its 15th year. Across audiences, 54% of people get news from social media and video networks, passing what used to be the primary sources, publisher websites (51%) and TV (52%). At the same time, the report shows trust in media is once again at an all-time low. Just 37% of people say they trust most news most of…
While much of Hollywood was consumed by the streaming wars, Issa Rae was studying a different mode of entertainment thousands of miles away: microdramas.No stranger to creating a successful online series, the Emmy-nominated actor and producer became intrigued by China’s booming market for the short, mobile-first soap operas, seeing its potential to build audiences and intellectual property.In May, Rae’s Hoorae Media released the thriller “Screen Time,” one of the first major studio-quality microdrama projects developed by an established Hollywood production company. The TikTok-backed series drew nearly 75 million views during its first week.Rae believes the format offers advantages traditional media…
For a workplace redesign, it’s hard to imagine a project that would need to serve as many types of stakeholders as the new Creative Artists Agency (CAA) office opening in Nashville this July. As one of the world’s leading sports and entertainment agencies, CAA caters to a wide range of outsized personalities, from NBA legends to touring musicians to college football coaches to YouTubers. But it’s also regularly bringing in new, young, unsigned talent, and often their parents or family members. And, of course, this new office in Nashville is also a 9-to-5 workplace for 160 employees, from the hotshot…