$95B for war. Rural hospitals are struggling. Working families are drowning in rising costs.
Arkansans don’t need more blank checks for endless wars. We need affordable healthcare, lower costs, and investments that strengthen our communities.
#NoNewWars#Affordability #Accountability #ProArkansas
The most-accurate forecaster of dollar-yen in Bloomberg's latest rankings sees the currency sliding as far as ¥170 against the dollar next year. 👉 https://t.co/jd9MAPYvYB
> Don't be Intuit
> Spend 20 years lobbying Congress so Americans can't file taxes for free
> IRS Direct File finally dies, pop champagne, moat secured!
> Perplexity drops an AI tax agent three weeks later that reads your W-2 for the price of a chatbot subscription
> ChatGPT explains your 1099 better than the $209 "Deluxe" tier
> Intuit response: open a physical TurboTax store in Soho!
> Yes, a retail store...for tax software...in 2026
> Announce we'll pay for your Uber to come do taxes in person
> CFO on earnings call: "customers buy confidence, not code"
> Stock drops 20% during the call = most confident -20% you've ever seen
> Five year low, congrats to everyone who bought the AI story at $700
> Strategy update: deliberately letting DIY customers leave
> Translation: the ones who noticed "free" wasn't free
> QuickBooks pivot: "usage-based pricing," aka the meter now runs while you cry
> Mailchimp, purchased for $12B, currently held together with tape and apology emails
> Flagship innovation: AI that finds deductions, then upsells you a human to check the AI
> The human costs extra, the AI costs extra, the extra costs extra
> Board response: raise prices, issue $1.75B in bonds, add "agentic" to every press release
> Mention "AI" over 100 times during earnings call
> Meanwhile, somewhere an accountant with a Claude subscription does your tax return in 15 minutes for $50
The stock market and the economy are not the same thing.
On Top Stocks, Brett Eversole explains why strong corporate earnings can push stocks higher even while many Americans continue to feel pressure in the real economy.
📹: https://t.co/yPmYxJhWkY
Your face is becoming a password you can never change.
Airports, police forces, and private companies are quietly building enormous databases of faces. Some are scraped from photos posted online, others captured by cameras in public without anyone asking.
The danger is simple. If a password leaks, you reset it in a minute. But once your face is in these systems, it is there for life. You cannot get a new one, and you usually cannot even find out who is holding it.
China launched the world's first industrial-grade humanoid robot free-combat league, URKL (Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend), on July 16, 2026, in Shenzhen. Created by the robotics firm EngineAI, the MMA-style tournament features full-size, autonomous humanoid robots trading punches and kicks in a fighting cage.
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