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Long line forms for Kalshi's free grocery event in New York

Hundreds of people queued for Kalshi’s free grocery promotion at Westside Market in New York, with some waiting almost two hours in freezing temperatures for a $50 credit to spend at the store. The promotion was positioned as a grab at groceries amid high prices and was described as

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Lego and Netflix to release KPop Demon Hunters sets in 2026

The Lego Group and Netflix are collaborating to produce KPop Demon Hunters building sets. Lego's first product is set to be revealed later this spring, with pre-orders opening shortly after, and additional sets are planned for release in 2027. Specific details about characters, scale, and play features remain

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Netflix CEO Suggests 'Superman' Underperformed at the Box Office

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos told a Senate hearing that the streamer generally adheres to a 45-day theatrical window but that the timing can shift depending on box office performance, saying some films that underperform have shorter windows and citing Superman as an example while noting Sinners had a longer window.

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Uber: Eats and freight could improve robotaxi economics

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said deliveries could be key to making robotaxis work economically, suggesting Uber Eats and the company's freight business could provide work for self-driving vehicles during periods of low passenger demand. Uber is working with multiple companies, including Waymo, to make self-driving cars available through

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Numbers and Questions Behind Musk’s SpaceX-xAI Merger

SpaceX has acquired xAI in an all-stock transaction that creates a privately valued, combined enterprise worth about $1.25 trillion, with Elon Musk controlling both companies. The stock is currently private, and SpaceX plans to go public later this year. The deal valued SpaceX at roughly $1 trillion and xAI

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WoW lead says Blizzard has 'bigger vision' beyond MMORPG

World of Warcraft turns 22 this year; despite spin-offs like Hearthstone and a movie adaptation, vice president and executive producer Holly Longdale says the Warcraft IP has "been underutilized." Speaking to The Game Business, Longdale said Blizzard has "a bigger vision" beyond simply being an MMORPG

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JPMorgan strategist calls software sell-off a healthy market rotation

Tech shares sold off after Anthropic released new plugins for its Cowork agent, and volatility spread as investors exited positions in many software stocks. Stephen Parker, co-head of global investment strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank, told CNBC the panic is overblown and that the move looks like a healthy rotation.

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Disney's choice of parks chief signals shift from streaming

Disney named parks chief Josh D'Amaro its next CEO, a choice that highlights his parks background rather than film, TV or streaming experience. The selection suggests streaming — once central to Disney’s strategy — is no longer seen as the key driver of the company’s future. Parks are

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Bedrock, an A.I. Start-Up for Construction, Raises $270 Million

Bedrock Robotics, a roughly year-old start-up founded by veterans of Waymo, said it raised $270 million in a funding round that values the company at $1.75 billion. The round was led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides A.I. Fund, and included investors such as 8VC and the venture

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Why Josh D'Amaro won out in the Disney battle with 'sharp elbowed' Dana Walden

Josh D'Amaro has been named CEO of The Walt Disney Company, while Dana Walden was named president and chief creative officer. Walden had been viewed as the other top candidate and would have been Disney's first female CEO; she has led the company's TV

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Novo Nordisk warns of first annual sales decline since Ozempic

Novo Nordisk said it expects sales to fall between 5 and 13 percent this year, a decline that would be its first annual sales drop since 2017, the year before it began selling Ozempic. The company reported revenue of 309 billion Danish kroner last year, about $49 billion, a 10

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How major hedge funds performed in January 2026

The biggest hedge funds started 2026 mostly in the black, as the S&P 500 rose 1.4% and hit record highs in mid-January before dipping late in the month. Point72 gained 2.9% in January, Citadel's flagship Wellington returned 1%, Schonfeld's Partners fund returned

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GTA 6 Still Confirmed For November With Summer Marketing Blitz Planned

Take-Two Interactive reconfirmed during its quarterly earnings report and conference that Grand Theft Auto 6 is set to launch this November and said marketing for the game will begin this summer. CEO Strauss Zelnick said he felt 'I feel good about it. Very good about it' when asked

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BitMine chair's 'feature, not a bug' defense fails as BMNR resumes 30% fall

BMNR stock price resumed a broader downtrend in early February, falling about 25% over five days and more than 33% over one month to trade around $22.35. Chairman Tom Lee defended large unrealized crypto losses as “a feature, not a bug,” but the comments did not attract sustained buying.

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Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs

The Washington Post told employees on Wednesday that it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are slated to shrink the newsroom by hundreds of journalists, cutting into the paper’s local, international and sports coverage. The cuts were announced in a video call, and executive editor Matt Murray

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Take-Two pauses Borderlands 4 release for Nintendo Switch 2

Take-Two Interactive said during its latest quarterly earnings call that it was pausing development of the Nintendo Switch 2 edition of Borderlands 4, halting the planned release for that platform. Borderlands 4 launched on PlayStation 5, Windows PC and Xbox Series X on Sept. 12, 2025, and a Switch 2

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Newly released files show emails between Bobby Kotick and Jeffrey Epstein

The Justice Department's recent release of files connected to Jeffrey Epstein contains more than a dozen allegedly exchanged emails between Epstein and then-Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. Kotick's name had previously appeared in a 2015 Gawker publication that included a redacted copy of Epstein’s alleged

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HR professional turns vintage Coach bag hobby into side hustle

Jonathan Adona is a 32-year-old human-resources professional in New York City who turned a hobby of collecting and restoring vintage Coach bags into a side hustle after being inspired by TikTok videos. He got his first Coach piece in 2022 and says his interest deepened in December 2024; after an

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Why A.I. Fears Are Battering Stocks, Again

Investors have been fleeing software stocks after A.I. companies like Anthropic introduced more sophisticated business tools, sending shares down in Asia, Europe and on Wall Street. The market lost about $300 billion in value after the release of A.I.-driven automation tools that can handle some legal, marketing

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Wayfair Kitchen Cabinet Organizers to Declutter Your Space From $15

Wayfair offers a range of cabinet organizers aimed at clearing kitchen clutter. The roundup highlights eight space-saving essentials, with prices starting at $15. Top-rated picks named in the roundup include the Dotted Line Albie Steel Cabinet Door Organizer ($22), the Prep & Savour Claudya Helper Shelf ($15, orig. $18), the

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No, GTA 6 Isn’t Skipping Physical Discs At Launch

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick told Variety that recent online claims Rockstar Games would delay GTA 6's physical disc release in favor of a digital-only launch to prevent leaks are not true. "That's not the plan," Zelnick said, addressing a rumor that began in

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New York Times Added 1.4 Million Digital Subscribers in 2025

The New York Times added 1.4 million digital-only subscribers in 2025, including about 450,000 in the fourth quarter, ending the year with 12.78 million total subscribers and on pace to reach its stated goal of 15 million by the end of 2027. A change in counting after

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The 10 best cities to buy a home in 2026

Realtor.com ranked the 10 US metros where homebuyers currently have the most bargaining power as listings sit on the market longer. The report notes the market has shifted from the competitive 2020 environment: a surplus of homes for sale and softer demand driven by higher mortgage rates, a shakier

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Demand has increased, without a doubt: the rise of personal protection dogs

Butch Cassidy, a 40kg Belgian shepherd owned by Grahame Green, is shown responding to a command by clamping on to a trainer's arm in a controlled demonstration. The article notes how such displays underline the potential for harm if a highly trained animal misfires or is handled by

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Inside Jeff Wang's new fund Augnition Global Investors

Former Sequoia investor Jeff Wang is planning to launch Augnition Global Investors later this year. The new fund was the talk of Morgan Stanley's annual Breakers conference in Palm Beach, attendees said. A person close to the firm said the fund will be a long-short equity investor that