格隆汇6月4日｜Meta Platforms(META.US)涨2.5%，报638.7美元。消息面上，Meta推出面向商户的人工智能(AI)代理Meta Business Agent，协助企业在WhatsApp、Messenger及Instagram处理客户查询、预约及销售。Business Agent可按商户语气回应客户，处理常见问题、筛选潜在客户，并在需要时把较复杂查询转交真人员工。Busin...
格隆汇6月4日｜Meta Platforms(META.US)涨2.5%，报638.7美元。消息面上，Meta推出面向商户的人工智能(AI)代理Meta Business Agent，协助企业在WhatsApp、Messenger及Instagram处理客户查询、预约及销售。Business Agent可按商户语气回应客户，处理常见问题、筛选潜在客户，并在需要时把较复杂查询转交真人员工。Business Agent初期可免费使用，并计划未来数月推出付费订阅选项。此外，Meta正考虑对旗下面向普通消费者的OpenClaw智能体工具新品设置最高每月200美元的定价。Hatch功能覆盖面广泛：可按需编写定制软件、在用户日历创建日程、代为发送邮件。(格隆汇)
Newport Gold ( NWPG ) said on Thursday it is completing the cancellation of up to 24.8M common shares that will be returned to treasury, a move aimed at reducing dilution and enhancing shareholder value. Stock up +20% in early trading. The company said the share cancellation stems from a previously finalized agreement with a stockholder and is now in the final processing stage. Newport Gold said t...
Newport Gold ( NWPG ) said on Thursday it is completing the cancellation of up to 24.8M common shares that will be returned to treasury, a move aimed at reducing dilution and enhancing shareholder value. Stock up +20% in early trading. The company said the share cancellation stems from a previously finalized agreement with a stockholder and is now in the final processing stage. Newport Gold said the move would reduce the public float, improve per-share metrics, eliminate a dilution overhang, and align management more closely with shareholders. More on Newport Gold, Inc. Newport Gold finalizes merger with NFI Empire Financial information for Newport Gold, Inc.
SpaceX is set to go public in the largest IPO of all time, and it is arguably the most hyped IPO in history. In this video, I take a closer look at how other large IPOs have performed both soon after going public and over the long term. You might be surprised.
SpaceX is set to go public in the largest IPO of all time, and it is arguably the most hyped IPO in history. In this video, I take a closer look at how other large IPOs have performed both soon after going public and over the long term. You might be surprised.
Robinhood Markets Inc. is kickstarting a shift away from its longstanding prediction markets partner Kalshi Inc. , using the World Cup to road test its own infrastructure. Rothera , a US-based derivatives exchange in which Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group jointly acquired a majority stake last year, is expected to handle bets for Robinhood users on events throughout the 104-game tourn...
Robinhood Markets Inc. is kickstarting a shift away from its longstanding prediction markets partner Kalshi Inc. , using the World Cup to road test its own infrastructure. Rothera , a US-based derivatives exchange in which Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group jointly acquired a majority stake last year, is expected to handle bets for Robinhood users on events throughout the 104-game tournament, the companies said on Thursday. A selection of contracts will be routed to Rothera including individual World Cup matches, the tournament’s overall winner and the number of goals scored during a game. The move is a major test for Rothera as Robinhood seeks to diversify the pool of providers that it relies on for prediction markets, the retail broker’s fastest-growing product to date. Robinhood has handled more than 16 billion events contracts so far this year, already surpassing the 12 billion traded in 2025. The World Cup is expected to be “one of the largest traded events that has ever occurred,” JB Mackenzie , Robinhood’s vice president and general manager of futures and prediction markets, said in an interview. “The fact of the matter is whenever something becomes the world stage for a product or for a sport, people are very engaged in it.” The shift to Rothera may curtail volumes on Kalshi, hitting the largest US-regulated prediction markets platform at a key moment in the sporting calendar. Bets from Robinhood users made up nearly a quarter of Kalshi’s overall trading volume in March, according to a Bernstein analysis. A market tracking the World Cup’s eventual winner has already attracted more than $76 million in volume on Kalshi. Some World Cup bets on Robinhood will continue to be routed to Kalshi, a spokesperson for Robinhood said, such as player contracts and combinations, which bundle multiple binary contracts together. Robinhood will make decisions throughout the tournament on where to route contracts based on factors like market liquidity and resolution...
Successful jokes are thin on the ground in the musty sixth installment of the once-popular parody franchise, taking aim at everything from Scream to Sinners The Scary Movie series has always depended on timing. Not necessarily in its gagcraft, which has oscillated between occasional sharp jabs and many beyond-broad blows, but in its position on the release schedule. This was especially true of the...
Successful jokes are thin on the ground in the musty sixth installment of the once-popular parody franchise, taking aim at everything from Scream to Sinners The Scary Movie series has always depended on timing. Not necessarily in its gagcraft, which has oscillated between occasional sharp jabs and many beyond-broad blows, but in its position on the release schedule. This was especially true of the first installment, which arrived in theaters just a few months after the 2000 release of Scream 3, capitalizing on the new wave of slashers while holding a spoofy Viking funeral for that just-concluded trilogy. A quarter of a century later, horror endures and there’s no reason to think spoofs can’t endure in parallel along with it as Backrooms and Obsession have ruled the early summer box office . The sixth Scary Movie, repeating the first movie’s unnumbered title as a simultaneous nod to and act of reboot branding, is releasing too soon after those surprise smashes to incorporate them into its litany of gags (not even some last-minute ADR references, guys?). It’s stuck far further back, doing a composite of the fifth and sixth Scream movies from 2022 and 2023, respectively. On the other hand, with the recent Scream 7 largely abdicating its self-referentiality entirely, Scary Movie arrives as the last horror-comedy holding the torch for in-jokes that its self-serious cousin couldn’t bother with. Continue reading...
At the 24% federal bracket, a portfolio throwing off $40,000 in high-yield dividend income hands roughly $9,600 to the IRS every year when those shares sit in a taxable account treated as ordinary income. For investors in the gap years between retirement and RMD age 73, that drag compounds quietly until required minimum distributions force ... How to Maximize Dividend Income in Retirement Before R...
At the 24% federal bracket, a portfolio throwing off $40,000 in high-yield dividend income hands roughly $9,600 to the IRS every year when those shares sit in a taxable account treated as ordinary income. For investors in the gap years between retirement and RMD age 73, that drag compounds quietly until required minimum distributions force ... How to Maximize Dividend Income in Retirement Before RMDs Change the Math
Beijing’s strong opposition to maritime boundary talks between Manila and Tokyo reflects growing wariness over a shifting balance of power in the western Pacific. And, experts warn, these talks – part of a highly calculated geopolitical effort by US allies – could reinforce the so-called first island chain and restrict Beijing’s naval access in an area vital to any potential conflict over Taiwan: ...
Beijing’s strong opposition to maritime boundary talks between Manila and Tokyo reflects growing wariness over a shifting balance of power in the western Pacific. And, experts warn, these talks – part of a highly calculated geopolitical effort by US allies – could reinforce the so-called first island chain and restrict Beijing’s naval access in an area vital to any potential conflict over Taiwan: its clear red line. Tensions have sharpened since Japan and the Philippines announced last week that...
This memoir of a man who moved around China chasing low-paid work for 20 years is an indictment of a shocking system, read in a suitably austere way Hu Anyan’s memoir about working in the Chinese gig economy began life as a blog before being turned into a wildly successful book that has sold nearly 2m copies in China. It chronicles the daily grind that is working a series of unskilled jobs for ins...
This memoir of a man who moved around China chasing low-paid work for 20 years is an indictment of a shocking system, read in a suitably austere way Hu Anyan’s memoir about working in the Chinese gig economy began life as a blog before being turned into a wildly successful book that has sold nearly 2m copies in China. It chronicles the daily grind that is working a series of unskilled jobs for insultingly low wages and where there is no such thing as career progression. Hu is one of 300 million so-called internal migrants in China, people who move around the country chasing work. Over 20 years, he does 19 jobs in six cities, many of them in terrible conditions. He works as a security guard, hotel waiter, delivery driver, bicycle salesman, bike courier, gas station attendant and at a logistics warehouse where he is given only four days off a month. There is a reason, he notes, why so many new recruits fail to make it through the three-day trial, which, of course, is unpaid. Continue reading...
The ceasefire has held just enough to prevent a return to all-out war, but neither side is close to achieving peace The US-Iran ceasefire is entering yet another round of escalation since it came into effect on 8 April . This week, there have been further strikes on Iran by the US, and Iranian retaliation on Kuwait and Bahrain , alongside Israeli escalation in Lebanon. Earlier flare-ups over the p...
The ceasefire has held just enough to prevent a return to all-out war, but neither side is close to achieving peace The US-Iran ceasefire is entering yet another round of escalation since it came into effect on 8 April . This week, there have been further strikes on Iran by the US, and Iranian retaliation on Kuwait and Bahrain , alongside Israeli escalation in Lebanon. Earlier flare-ups over the past two months were quickly contained. Both sides have tried to keep the balance between no war and no peace. But as this ceasefire drags on it risks becoming yet another Middle East stalemate, albeit one with international economic and political consequences. Four obstacles are preventing progress. The first is trust. Iran does not believe Donald Trump can deliver a deal, much less stick to one. The fear is not only that Washington will walk away again but that the goalposts will keep moving, where first nuclear limits are imposed, followed by missiles, then regional policy and finally further political concessions dressed up as security guarantees. Sanam Vakil is the director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House Continue reading...
The star of The Fast Show and Father Brown – as well as the original Arthur Weasley – on friendly death eaters, famous Brummies and Chinese trains What were the best and worst moments shooting the Harry Potter films? bumble1 The worst part was being away from home and the long hours. The best bit was the work and talking to the other actors. I look back with great fondness on that. I remember sayi...
The star of The Fast Show and Father Brown – as well as the original Arthur Weasley – on friendly death eaters, famous Brummies and Chinese trains What were the best and worst moments shooting the Harry Potter films? bumble1 The worst part was being away from home and the long hours. The best bit was the work and talking to the other actors. I look back with great fondness on that. I remember saying to Alan Rickman that the collective noun for actors is an anecdote. Michael Gambon was the king of stories. He’d start a joke and you never knew where he was going. But he’d hone them; they were finely crafted – some of his best work was backstage. Richard Griffiths was also a great raconteur. His stories were brilliant, and completely unpublishable. Continue reading...
Ibragimova/Tiberghien (BIS) Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien, on period instruments, offer zest-filled and elegant readings of four Beethoven sonatas Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien get their Beethoven cycle off to a flying start with zesty accounts of the Op 12 set alongside the evergreen Spring Sonata. They perform on period instruments – she, a 1570 Amati violin; ...
Ibragimova/Tiberghien (BIS) Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien, on period instruments, offer zest-filled and elegant readings of four Beethoven sonatas Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien get their Beethoven cycle off to a flying start with zesty accounts of the Op 12 set alongside the evergreen Spring Sonata. They perform on period instruments – she, a 1570 Amati violin; he, a replica 1794 Walter fortepiano – but there’s nothing academic about these fresh-as-a-daisy interpretations. Among the Op 12, the D major sonata crackles with an almost capricious theatricality. One moment they are teasing, the next goading each other into greater feats of athleticism. Ibragimova explores the widest of dynamic ranges, accompanied by Tiberghien, whose quicksilver right hand is matched by a percussive left that would give a timpanist a run for his money. Continue reading...
Want to spend less time on your phone? We asked psychotherapists, professors and specialists for practical (and achievable) ways to cut down • The best screen-free activities Everywhere you look, people are glued to their smartphones. If you haven’t noticed this phenomenon, it’s likely because you, too, are glued to the little dopamine-deliverer. In March, Meta and YouTube had to pay a combined $6...
Want to spend less time on your phone? We asked psychotherapists, professors and specialists for practical (and achievable) ways to cut down • The best screen-free activities Everywhere you look, people are glued to their smartphones. If you haven’t noticed this phenomenon, it’s likely because you, too, are glued to the little dopamine-deliverer. In March, Meta and YouTube had to pay a combined $6m after a US court found that the tech companies’ platforms were designed to be addictive. Put such tempting apps in a device that’s carried everywhere, and that’s a recipe for compulsive behaviour. Continue reading...
Global trading house Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. has reached a deal to acquire one of Argentina’s biggest refineries and a network of hundreds of gas stations from Brazil’s struggling Raizen SA . The acquisition , valued at $1.42 billion, comes after fierce competition from rival trader Vitol Group and caps drawn-out negotiations that involved Mercuria’s minority partner in Argentina, business magn...
Global trading house Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. has reached a deal to acquire one of Argentina’s biggest refineries and a network of hundreds of gas stations from Brazil’s struggling Raizen SA . The acquisition , valued at $1.42 billion, comes after fierce competition from rival trader Vitol Group and caps drawn-out negotiations that involved Mercuria’s minority partner in Argentina, business magnate Jose Luis Manzano , and Raizen’s creditors including BTG Pactual Holding SA . “Mercuria believes Argentina represents an important energy market with strong long-term fundamentals and significant opportunities for operational growth and investment,” the company said in a statement Thursday. The deal is a triumph for President Javier Milei , who is up for re-election next year and is keen to show that his free-market reforms can lure foreign direct investment. Mercuria’s bet on Argentina comes as commodity trading houses increasingly look to downstream oil facilities as a way to keep up the windfall profits they booked during an energy crisis earlier this decade. Mercuria, via its subsidiaries Latam Downstream Holdings Ltd. and Silver Projects I S.A.U, takes control of the Dock Sud refinery on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the third biggest in Argentina, and about 700 gas stations accounting for roughly one fifth of nationwide fuel sales. It’s expected to close in the current crop year, pending regulatory approvals, according to a statement Thursday. The deal creates a third integrated oil producer in Argentina — those that both drill for crude and refine it. State-run YPF SA is the biggest, followed by Pan American Energy Group , which is half-owned by British oil major BP Plc. Mercuria, via its subsidiary Phoenix Global Resources Plc , where businessman Manzano is also a partner, produces much less crude than YPF or Pan American. But it is set to invest billions of dollars over the coming years to ramp up output in Argentina’s burgeoning Vaca Muerta shale patch. Found...
Adobe (ADBE) possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
Adobe (ADBE) possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 04, 2026--Financial organizations are navigating a risk landscape that grows more complex by the day. Ncontracts, the leading provider of integrated compliance, risk, and vendor management solutions to the financial industry, is moving to meet that moment, today announcing the appointment of Dr. Maureen Schumacher as Chief Marketing Officer.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 04, 2026--Financial organizations are navigating a risk landscape that grows more complex by the day. Ncontracts, the leading provider of integrated compliance, risk, and vendor management solutions to the financial industry, is moving to meet that moment, today announcing the appointment of Dr. Maureen Schumacher as Chief Marketing Officer.
A Nomatic Travel Pack filled with so much cool tech that its main compartment barely zips shut. | Image: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge We’re always testing out new products here The Verge , which presents a bit of a problem for our inventory closet in New York City. It’s literally overflowing with gadgets, new and old, so we’re restoring order by giving some of it away to one lucky person. We’ve st...
A Nomatic Travel Pack filled with so much cool tech that its main compartment barely zips shut. | Image: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge We’re always testing out new products here The Verge , which presents a bit of a problem for our inventory closet in New York City. It’s literally overflowing with gadgets, new and old, so we’re restoring order by giving some of it away to one lucky person. We’ve stuffed over $800 worth of tech into a Nomatic Travel Pack that could be yours if you’re randomly chosen as the winner of our sweepstakes, which runs through 10AM ET on June 30th. Our giveaway kicks off ahead of Amazon’s upcoming Prime Day sale , which starts on Tuesday, June 23rd, and lasts through June 26th. We’ll select a winner from the entrants on June 30th, and they’ll be notified via email. All you need to do is take a few seconds to enter the sweepstakes. It’s as easy as filling in the fields below within the Viralsweep embed. Once you enter, you’ll become a subscriber to our Verge Shopping newsletter, which contains the latest deals, plus links to recent buying guides, reviews, and other relevant articles we think you’ll like. It’ll be especially useful with Prime Day coming up, keeping you in the know of the biggest deals of the sale. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. Sweepstakes begins at 10:00am ET on 06/04/2026 and ends at 10:00am ET on 06/30/2026. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C., of legal age of majority and have access to the internet, and a valid email address. Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries received. Governed by and subject to the Official Rules , additional eligibility restrictions apply. Vox Media Privacy Policy Sponsor: Vox Media, LLC, 1701 Rhode Island Ave., Washington DC 20036.
Today on Decoder , I’m talking to Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and coauthor of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter , which came out in 2024 . I can’t recommend it enough. I wanted to have Ryan on the show because we’re on the cusp of the SpaceX IPO, which promises to be one of the most consequential public offerings in history for a variety ...
Today on Decoder , I’m talking to Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times and coauthor of the excellent book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter , which came out in 2024 . I can’t recommend it enough. I wanted to have Ryan on the show because we’re on the cusp of the SpaceX IPO, which promises to be one of the most consequential public offerings in history for a variety of reasons — its biggest-ever size, of course, at nearly $2 trillion dollars , but also because all kinds of rules that keep our markets fair are being bent, if not outright broken, along the way . I also wanted to talk to Ryan because buried somewhere inside SpaceX is X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, which Musk purchased in 2022. That’s what Ryan cowrote that book about. I was very confident that Musk would come to regret buying Twitter back then. I wrote a piece called “Welcome To hell, Elon,” which is probably the single most-read thing I’ve ever written. My thesis was that there would be no way to grow Twitter users and revenue without moderating the platform well and, ultimately, that Elon buying Twitter would destroy his reputation and cause damage to his other companies. Now, we have the numbers from the SpaceX IPO filing to see how right my prediction was. X is shrinking by every major metric, but it may not matter, as Ryan points out. Take a listen, and let me know what you think. Ryan and I also got into all those rules being broken to land the SpaceX IPO — rules about shareholder control, inclusion in the major index funds, and all the other levers of market accountability that usually serve to keep companies in check. You’re going to hear us say “corporate governance” a lot in this episode, and while it may sound boring, it won’t be if you take a shot every time it comes up. Okay, don’t do that. But do consider what it means that Elon has become so rich, so powerful, and so detached from the levers of accountability that he can apparently get aw...
CHARLESTON, S.C., June 04, 2026--Red Metals, a next-generation copper manufacturer, today announced $10 million in Seed funding and plans to build a $70 million facility in Charleston, South Carolina, expected to create at least 45 jobs in its initial phase of operations. The company has developed a novel copper refining process designed to reshore the manufacturing of finished copper products to ...
CHARLESTON, S.C., June 04, 2026--Red Metals, a next-generation copper manufacturer, today announced $10 million in Seed funding and plans to build a $70 million facility in Charleston, South Carolina, expected to create at least 45 jobs in its initial phase of operations. The company has developed a novel copper refining process designed to reshore the manufacturing of finished copper products to the United States.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) today announced a new partnership with Zoox, the Amazon-owned autonomous ride hailing company building a safer, cleaner, more enjoyable future on the road with its purpose-built robotaxi.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) today announced a new partnership with Zoox, the Amazon-owned autonomous ride hailing company building a safer, cleaner, more enjoyable future on the road with its purpose-built robotaxi.