What is the McRib really made of? A federal class action lawsuit alleges McDonald’s is misleading customers
McDonald’s McRib sandwich—a limited-time menu item most recently available in November—has drawn a cult following. Now some of those same fast-food diners are suing the company, alleging the famous sandwich’s…
Want AI agents to work better? Improve the way they retrieve information, Databricks says
On a suite of benchmark tests that Databricks designed that it says reflects real world enterprise use cases involving instruction-following, domain-specific search, report generation, list generation, and searching PDFs with…
When brands play hard to get: why you’re drawn to products that neg you
Imagine you are searching for a new mattress online and find something surprising. The retailer displays an ad featuring a “Mattress Comfort Scale” running from 1 (soft) to 10 (firm),…
Mark Cuban on the $38 trillion national debt and the absurdity of U.S. healthcare: we wouldn’t pay for potato chips like this
Insurers and providers, according to Cuban, “play on the fear and information asymmetry that exists in healthcare.” He advocated for them to be broken up, so as to “make the…
Ray Dalio says AI is in ‘the early stages of a bubble,’ so watch out for 2026
The artificial intelligence boom is no longer just a growth story, as one of Wall Street’s most prolific investors is sounding the alarm about how the tune could shift in…
Amazon is cutting checks to millions of customers as part of a $2.5 billion FTC settlement. Here’s who qualifies and how to get paid
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Warren Buffett left his Berkshire Hathaway job with a parting lesson for young Gen Z workers: ‘Be very careful who you work with’
Looking back, Buffett shared the importance of getting on with the five bosses he served under in those early years—and he advises young professionals to find the same, since it…
From Latin America’s richest country 100 years ago to a founding member of OPEC, the long history of Venezuela’s oil and U.S. ties, explained
In the aftermath, Venezuelan society became further split between the wealthy, who wanted to work with the US, and the working class, who sought autonomy from the US. This division…
After Nvidia’s Groq deal, meet the other AI chip startups that may be in play—and one looking to disrupt them all
Karl Freund, founder and principal analyst at Cambrian-AI Research, pointed to the Microsoft-backed D-Matrix, which raised $275 million last month at a $2 billion valuation. Like Groq, D-Matrix is focused…
Energy stocks rip as JP Morgan estimates the U.S. could hold 30% of all the world’s oil
While the U.S. action is unlikely to have an immediate impact on crude prices given the current glut in the market, it could upend energy markets and have an impact…
