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Exclusive | Walmart’s New Employee Perk Takes a Bite Out of Workers’ Grocery Bills – The Wall Street Journal

Exclusive | Walmart’s New Employee Perk Takes a Bite Out of Workers’ Grocery Bills  The Wall Street Journal Walmart broadens 10% staff discount to include most grocery products  Yahoo Finance Walmart expands grocery discount for 1.6 million employees as tariffs renew inflation concerns  CNBC Walmart broadens 10% staff discount to include most grocery products, WSJ reports  Reuters Walmart extends employee discount to nearly all …

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Eleanor Holmes Norton keeps a low profile as Trump takes aim at DC – Politico

Eleanor Holmes Norton keeps a low profile as Trump takes aim at DC  Politico DC Mayor Bowser changes her tone on Trump as crackdown ramps up  CNN ‘Radical’ DC officials treated officers ‘like crap,’ police leader says – 7 attacks that led to Trump takeover  Fox News National Guard troops told to maintain presence near National Mall as part of Trump’s anti-crime mission  ABC …

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Meta AI takes first step to superintelligence — and Zuckerberg will no longer release the most powerful systems to the public

Meta AI takes first step to superintelligence — and Zuckerberg will no longer release the most powerful systems to the public

Researchers at Meta claim to have observed the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) systems improving themselves without human input. “Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a policy paper published July 30 on the company’s website. “The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable.” Zuckerberg …

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Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, unnamed sources told the Financial Times.  The startup is expected to be valued at $850 million. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch that talks are still early …

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Apple takes aim at Windows 10 end of support with rumored $599 MacBook

Apple takes aim at Windows 10 end of support with rumored 9 MacBook

Apple is rumored to be making a cheap MacBook, and the latest reports suggest it will feature a screen size of around 13-inches and cost as low as $599. Additionally, it sounds like Apple could be readying this cheap MacBook for launch as soon as this fall, timed perfectly with Windows 10’s end of support. Until now, new MacBook’s from …

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John Oliver Takes Aim at Dean Cain’s Plan to Join ICE

John Oliver Takes Aim at Dean Cain’s Plan to Join ICE

Last week, former Superman actor Dean Cain announced plans to join ICE. On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver quipped that Cain won’t need to disguise himself with a mask because the chances of people knowing who he is “are fucking zero.” “You know, there’s an old saying in Hollywood: ‘If all you can get is …

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Shane van Gisbergen takes Watkins Glen for 4th win this year

Shane van Gisbergen takes Watkins Glen for 4th win this year

Aug 10, 2025, 04:35 PM ET WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Shane van Gisbergen‘s latest victory in NASCAR’s premier series was as historical as it was emotional. With his father, Robert, on hand for the first time this year, the Auckland, New Zealand, native set a Cup Series rookie record with his fourth victory, blowing out the competition again at Watkins …

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‘Couldn’t handle it’ – Shedeur Sanders takes fight to Browns beat reporter suspended over Baker Mayfield jibe

‘Couldn’t handle it’ – Shedeur Sanders takes fight to Browns beat reporter suspended over Baker Mayfield jibe

Shedeur Sanders was going to make headlines regardless of how he played in his NFL preseason debut. But, following a superb performance in which his 138 passing yards, 19 rushing yards and two touchdowns helped the Cleveland Browns cruise to a 30-10 victory over the Carolina Panthers, Sanders didn’t hold back from media personnel. 4 It was all smiles between …

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