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OPEC+ Agrees in Principle to Increase Production in October  Bloomberg.com OPEC+ will likely raise oil output further from October, sources say  Reuters Oil Futures Extend Losses Ahead of OPEC+ Meeting  The Wall Street Journal OPEC+ will likely agree to further oil output hike on Sunday, sources say  Yahoo Finance OPEC+ meets this weekend at a precarious time for crude oil. Here’s what’s at stake.  MarketWatch …

Facebook Tweet Email Link When Lenny Schmidt arrived at his family-run nutrition bar manufacturing business in upstate New York Thursday morning, federal immigration agents were already there. “The agents were swarming the plant,” he said. “There were probably over 100 of these agents, on four-wheelers, on foot, they had dogs.” “They had surrounded the facility and forced their way through …

Hollywood is contracting. Studios are ordering fewer shows, laying off huge swaths of their workforce, and shipping production overseas. It started a few years ago, as, in The Hollywood Reporter‘s words, “a marathon to compete with Netflix’s firehose of content suddenly became a sprint to trim costs” and strive toward profitability. The resonance of this shift has been felt at …

The Galaxy S26 launch happening early next year could finally break the exclusivity streak for Qualcomm’s chipsets, as Samsung is reportedly preparing to mass produce the Exynos 2600. Earlier this year, the company announced that its chipset would be its first 2nm GAA silicon, but at the time, we only learned that its NPU performance would deliver significant improvements over …

Press enter or click to view image in full size Logarithm of the nickel mass loss rate from 3I/ATLAS (vertical axis) as a function of heliocentric distance (horizontal axis). Blue circles show Very Large Telescope/X-shooter measurements of 3I/ATLAS and the black solid curve is a power–law fit to the data with a power-law index of −8.43±0.79. Colored symbols compare with …

Tyler Cowen: Trump Seizes the Means of Production at Intel  The Free Press After U.S. Takes Stake in Intel, Trump Pledges ‘Many More’ Deals  The New York Times Intel’s Problems Can’t Be Fixed By the Government  Bloomberg.com Most Sovereign Wealth Funds Are Poor Performers. The U.S. May Still Get One.  Barron’s Investors worry Trump’s Intel deal kicks off era of US industrial policy  Reuters Source …

The NFL has reportedly relaxed the restrictions that prevented Tom Brady from attending production meetings with coaches and teams during the season due to his ownership stake with the Las Vegas Raiders. Per The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand, Brady will be allowed to take part in those weekly meetings leading up to games that he will be calling for Fox. Marchand …

Nintendo has restructured and rebranded a division that is now dedicated to developing films featuring the company’s characters, such as Mario and Zelda. Now titled Nintendo Stars, the subsidiary is tasked with “implementing and licensing various ancillary uses in films” of Nintendo intellectual property, the company announced today, in order to “familiarize people around the world with Nintendo IP and …

Country music star Hailey Whitters took to social media on Sunday with some big-time life news. That news? Well, the 35-year-old singer is pregnant. Whitters made the revelation on Instagram posing in a photo kissing her husband Jake Gear while holding a hand on her belly. “Our greatest production yet,” she wrote. “Baby boy coming in Nov!” Fans, friends and …

Technology World’s top chipmaker shifts 2-nm tool sourcing as American investment accelerates TSMC plans to start producing chips using 2-nanometer technology, the most advanced in the industry, this year.  © Reuters CHENG TING-FANG August 25, 2025 15:00 JST TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is eliminating the use of Chinese chipmaking equipment in its most advanced chip plants to avoid any …