- [[Los Angeles Times]]
- What ‘One Battle After Another’ says about original films
- Their box office success partly answers the question: What do audiences want?
- California’s Uber and Lyft unionization law, explained
- Drivers now have collective bargaining rights after years of political, legal battles.
- THE LAW is a rare compromise between labor unions and Silicon Valley gig economy companies.
- [[USA Today]]
- Price of loyalty
- Rising pet costs force owners to choose between debt and care
- Several recent reports point to a sobering conclusion: Maybe pets are only for the rich. ● One in 5 pet owners carry at least $2,000 in pet debt, according to a June survey of 1,000 American pet owners commissioned by MetLife Pet Insurance. One in 7 experience “pet poverty,” struggling to meet their own basic needs while also caring for a pet. ● The lifetime cost of pet care has reached roughly $32,000 for a cat and nearly $35,000 for a dog, according to a recent report from Rover, a pet care marketplace.
- Some U.S. companies offering paid ‘period leave’
- Benefit offered to those experiencing syptoms
- $2.1T sits in forgotten 401(k) accounts
- Report draws attention to growing tab of idle funds
- [[The New York Times]]
- The Fuel Behind Trump’s $100,000 Visa Fee: Lost U.S. Tech Jobs
- The president’s decision to charge employers $100,000 per visa for skilled workers seemed to come out of nowhere. But the grievance behind it has been simmering.
- A Bad Time to Take the Helm? New Retail Leaders Face Extra Headaches.
- New retail C.E.O.s are facing unexpected challenges, like tariffs and worried shoppers, as they try to address existing ones.
- We Finally Have Free Anti-Robocall Tools That Work
- A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it.
- New Tariffs Could Worsen America’s Housing Crisis
- President Trump’s tariffs on timber, wood, furniture and kitchen cabinets could raise the cost of building and buying a home.
- [[Wall Street Journal]]
- Starbucks Kept Cuts Under Wraps
- Investors Pile Into Corporate-Bond Market
- AI Investors Face A Range of Risks
- Taylor Swift Has a Hit With ‘Release Party of a Showgirl’
- Altman Goes on World Tour In Dash For Funds
- [[Financial Times]] A UK-based company owned by Nikkei.
- Weaker growth in spending on US goods and services amplifies role played by AI
- A key theme of market chatter last week was how much of US economic growth this year has come from the artificial intelligence boom.
- Carbon capture falters as extraction costs fail to budge
- Developers of technology seen as crucial to achieving net zero face challenges in scaling up
- Climeworks’ Mammoth direct air capture plant in Reykjavik, Iceland
- Trump tariffs begin to drive prices higher for consumers
- ▸ US data shows goods inflation rising ▸ Retailers pass on extra import costs
- Monzo plots renewed push for American bank licence
- Monzo is considering a new application for a US banking licence four years after shelving a previous attempt when it reached an impasse with regulators.
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📰 Los Angeles Times
What ‘One Battle After Another’ says about the power of original films
Its box office success offers one answer to the question: “What do audiences really want?”
California’s Uber·Lyft unionization law, explained
After years of political and legal battles, drivers have finally won collective bargaining rights.
The law is the result of a rare compromise between labor unions and Silicon Valley gig economy companies.
📰 USA Today
The price of loyalty — the reality created by soaring pet costs
Rising pet-related costs are forcing owners to choose between taking on debt and giving up care.
Several recent reports point to a sobering conclusion — “Perhaps pets have become a luxury only the rich can afford.”
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According to a June survey of 1,000 American pet owners commissioned by MetLife Pet Insurance,
one in five carried at least $2,000 in pet debt.
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One in seven was living in ‘pet poverty’, struggling to meet their own basic needs while still caring for a pet.
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The lifetime cost of caring for a pet reaches about $32,000 for a cat, and nearly $35,000 for a dog, according to Rover, a pet care marketplace.
Some U.S. companies introduce ‘period leave’
Paid leave for employees experiencing menstrual symptoms.
$2.1 trillion sits in ‘forgotten’ 401(k) accounts
A report highlights the rapid growth of idle retirement funds.
📰 The New York Times
Behind Trump’s $100,000 visa fee: America’s vanished tech jobs
The president’s decision to charge employers $100,000 for each skilled-worker visa seemed to come out of nowhere,
but the grievance behind it had been simmering for a long time.
‘A bad time to take the helm?’ Extra headaches facing new retail leaders
New retail chief executives face fresh challenges such as tariffs and anxious shoppers on top of an already difficult environment.
Free anti-robocall tools have finally arrived — and they actually work
A new call-screening feature on the iPhone works much like the technology already available on Android,
and instructions for turning it on have been published.
New tariffs could worsen America’s housing crisis
President Trump’s new tariffs on timber, furniture and kitchen cabinets
are expected to push the cost of building and buying a home even higher.
📰 Wall Street Journal
Starbucks kept its sweeping restructuring under wraps
The cuts, code-named ‘Project Bloom’, took months to prepare and only days to execute.
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Investors pile into the corporate bond market
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AI investors face a range of risks
It examines the pitfalls awaiting investors chasing a ‘big prize’ amid the AI investment boom.
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Taylor Swift scores another hit with a film shown for a single weekend
‘Release Party of a Showgirl’ drew a strong short run in theaters.
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Sam Altman tours Asia·the Middle East in a dash for funds
The OpenAI chief executive headed to East Asia and the Middle East in search of new investors and partners.
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📰 Financial Times
(Headquartered in London and owned by Japan’s Nikkei group)
As U.S. spending slows, AI’s role in driving growth grows stronger
A key theme in the markets last week was the analysis that much of this year’s U.S. economic growth has come from the AI boom.
Carbon capture falters as costs refuse to budge
The carbon capture industry, seen as crucial to reaching ‘net zero’,
is struggling to cut costs and scale up.
Photo: Climeworks’ ‘Mammoth’ direct air capture plant in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Trump’s tariffs begin to drive consumer prices higher
Monzo plots a renewed push for an American bank licence
The British fintech bank Monzo is again weighing an application for a U.S. banking licence
that it shelved four years ago after reaching an impasse with regulators.
