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The Social Security Administration on Friday announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment for 2026, an increase that will automatically boost monthly payments for the program’s roughly 71 million beneficiaries starting early next year. The increase represents an uptick from the last year’s cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, which set the 2025 increase at 2.5%. Inflation has edged higher this year. The Labor Department …

How Does the U.S. Decide Which Boats to Target? Here’s What We Know.  The New York Times As strikes on alleged drug boats grow, so do questions about their legality and goal  NPR He survived a US military boat strike. Despite a drug record, his family says he’s a fisherman caught in Trump’s war at sea  CNN Trump expands military strikes against civilian …

Starting today, Memory is rolling out to all paid Claude users. Now, the chatbot will remember your projects, context and just about anything else you want it to remember. The feature can be toggled off, but when enabled, Claude becomes a faster and more natural collaborator. Anthorpic’s move puts Claude in direct competition with ChatGPT’s memory features and adds another …

A delayed inflation report on Friday is expected to deliver sobering data about the direction of U.S. prices, with economists forecasting that the Consumer Price Index in September rose at its fastest pace in 16 months.  CPI last month is projected to have risen 3.1% on an annual basis, which would be the highest since the inflation gauge hit 3.3% …

S.F. Bay Area immigration crackdown: Here’s everything we know  San Francisco Chronicle Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area  San Francisco Chronicle Live updates: Protests begin as federal agents arrive in Bay Area for possible immigration operation  ABC7 San Francisco Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law  The New York Times Trump poised to send scores of …

Jasondoiy | E+ | Getty Images Amid recession fears, a government shutdown and tariff uncertainty, consumers are increasingly diverging in their spending. Wealthier Americans are engaging their purchasing power, while lower-income Americans are starting to pull back — commonly described as a “K-shaped” economy. Friday’s consumer price index report could shed more light on the pressures facing large swaths of …

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OpenAI announced this week the arrival of its new artificial-intelligence-powered web browser, ChatGPT Atlas. “We think that AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be about,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during a livestream of the company’s announcement on Tuesday. Atlas was designed to bring ChatGPT, OpenAI’s advanced AI chatbot, and web browsing together in …

Turkeys aren’t known for flying but their prices are soaring ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. A September outlook report from the United States Agriculture Department estimates that wholesale prices for frozen turkeys will be $1.32 per pound this year, a 40% increase from 2024’s average of $0.94 per pound.  The wholesale price is what retailers pay to buy items in bulk. …

Tesla is slated to release third-quarter results after the stock market’s closing bell Wednesday, and most analysts are split between cautious and optimistic toward Elon Musk ‘s flagship business. Earlier this month, the electric vehicle maker reported a 7% year-over-year jump in quarterly vehicle deliveries . Customers rushed to buy cars ahead of the expiration of a key federal tax …