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- Tigers, Astros Legend Justin Verlander Sends Blue Jays Message Just Before Final Start
The Detroit Tigers’ future Hall of Famer pointed to a Houston Astros game against the Toronto Blue Jays shortly before retiring.
- Alo is defying China’s consumer slowdown, selling $1.5 million in one minute and planning 8 more stores
Alo just broke a Tmall record in China as Lululemon stumbles.
- Harvard’s last Affirmative Action program is for the rich
Three years after affirmative action’s end, Harvard still favors applicants by ancestry.
- Nearly half of home sellers are now offering incentives to unload their properties—even $20,000 in concessions and all-expenses-paid cruises
“If we were to quantify all these concessions…we would see that home prices are down, and people are getting better deals,” Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather said.
- He washed dishes beneath BlackRock’s headquarters, landed his dream job there—then quit to build his family’s restaurant empire
The 30-year-old now employs 300 people and works seven days a week. “I’ve never been more stressed,” he says.
Technology
- Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.
Heidi Overton faced questions focused on vaccines, birth control, and vapes.
- Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
- Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
- Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.
- Review: The iPhone 18 Pro is Apple's coolest smartphone (but only literally)
Better thermals and battery life make this iterative update nicer to use.
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