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Aug 28 · closedPast monthLevelTodayDow53,560−0.0%Nasdaq26,402−0.5%S&P 5007,712−0.2%Bitcoin$78,990+1.5%

The read: A quiet slip today across the board. Stocks still sit higher than a month ago; Bitcoin has been climbing this month.

Sunday, August 30, 2026Coming up: Fed rate decision Sep 16 · Fed rate decision Oct 2810-yr Treasury 4.72%▲0.05shapes loan rates

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A giant cream letter tilted on a dark navy ground, carrying the OpenAI mark and the headline A Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense over rows of abstract signature strokes and a chip reading 128 signatures. Beside it, large text reads Rivals signed, nothing binds, over the line AI labs, banks, insurers, GM. A cyan-edged tag says attacks scale in the coming months.

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A giant navy file folder stamped with the Spirit Airlines wordmark and an In Bankruptcy chip, headlined Decades of Employee Files, with an employee name struck out in cyan. A cream tag carries the Google wordmark and Bid ten million dollars. On the right, the blue duotone Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House with the words A judge decides, September 9.
August 27, 2026

Google wants a bankrupt airline's employee files, and stripping the names may not protect the workers

A man sits alone at a kitchen table before dawn, chin resting on his hand, watching a laptop. On the screen two columns of stacked bid and offer bars, teal on the left and magenta on the right, feed inward along glowing threads into a single document icon at the centre; the screen's own labels are too indistinct to read. Below the laptop sits a locked glass case of gold blocks with a light running from it up into the screen. A wall clock reads about seven and a lit city skyline stands beyond a rain-flecked window.
August 17, 2026

Stock options may start trading two hours before the stock market opens

A woman in medical scrubs and a fleece fills a silver minivan at a service station at dusk, a receipt in her free hand, looking down at the nozzle. A child sleeps in a car seat inside the van. A tote of groceries and a takeaway coffee cup sit on the wet ground beside the car, and a thin thread of light runs along the pavement between them and the pump.
August 14, 2026

Inflation cooled to 3.4 percent, but gas still costs 24.6 percent more than last summer

A woman in a dark blazer with a lanyard sits at a table by a window, a red pencil in her hand, lifting the corner of a printed document. Beneath the raised page a dense blue grid of glowing points is revealed, as though embedded in the paper itself. Outside, European Union flags fly in front of the Berlaymont building at sunrise. A colleague works at a desk behind her.
August 13, 2026

AI writing now carries a watermark, but it can't prove who did the thinking

Three young trainees in hard hats with headlamps work at separate stations in an underground mine training gallery: one sighting through a surveying instrument on a yellow tripod, one examining a lit core sample laid along a bench, and one crouched wiring a control box. An instructor watches from the shadows at the left, with rough rock walls and caged equipment behind them.
August 14, 2026

Washington put $180 million into mining schools and named only three of them

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