Amazon Business is now a $60B operation serving 11 million customers worldwide. In this FreightWaves Today interview, Amazon Business exec Daniel Silverfield breaks down what that scale means for procurement, supplier consolidation, same-day grocery delivery and AI-driven savings.The big takeaway: business buyers want fewer suppliers, better visibility and less waste in purchasing. Silverfield explains how Amazon Business is pitching exactly that to everyone from small companies to Fortune 100s.
Amazon Business has hit $60 billion in annualized gross sales and now serves 11 million customers worldwide, with 1.8 million organizations added this year alone — a growth rate that puts it on par with a Fortune 100 company if it were standalone. The platform, which launched roughly a decade ago after Amazon noticed businesses already shopping on amazon.com, is increasingly central to how companies across sectors manage procurement, from office supplies to same-day groceries.
The scale matters to shippers, carriers, and brokers because Amazon Business is driving a fundamental shift in B2B purchasing behavior — consolidating supplier pools, centralizing data, and moving procurement from quarterly reporting cycles to an always-on, AI-powered model. Every order that migrates to the platform is one fewer touchpoint for traditional distributors and one more shipment flowing through Amazon's own logistics network.
Daniel Silverfield, head of value and selection for Amazon Business, said the platform saved customers $880 million on Prime free shipping last year and $1 billion through business-specific discounts. The company added 30% new items year over year and recently launched same-day grocery delivery across 2,300 U.S. cities in the first half of this year, a capability customers had been requesting for some time.
"The big shift that we're seeing is that people are moving to a continuous, always-on, conversational-powered procurement journey where agents may be looking for the best price while they're asleep, maybe negotiating on their behalf while they're asleep, and then surfacing to them the best product to buy," said Silverfield.

#customers

Jennifer Lopez posed for a selfie in a plunging white top and matching bottoms.
She paired the tailored piece with flashes of gold jewelry and accessories.
Lopez recently shared photos from her poolside Labor Day weekend.
It's no great secret that some styling rules were made to be broken, and it seems that Jennifer Lopez isn't quite ready to give up her whites just yet, even though Labor Day has come and gone.
Jennifer Lopez wore a belted all-white outfit.
Credit: Jennifer Lopez/Instagram

#matching

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, recently partnered with Moov, a payments infrastructure provider, to bring stablecoin payments and settlements to more than 1,000 U.S. community banks and credit unions. By integrating Coinbase's digital ******* et infrastructure into Moov's payments platform, the two companies will enable those financial institutions to accept stablecoins without building their own blockchains.
Let's see how this partnership could help Coinbase, why everyone is talking about stablecoins right now, and how the upcoming vote on the CLARITY Act could impact those plans.
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies pegged to a stable fiat currency, such as the U.S. dollar or the euro, and can be held without a bank account. Their payments can be settled 24/7, enabling faster, cheaper money transfers than fiat currencies. They can be deposited in third-party lending platforms and liquidity pools to earn higher yields than traditional bank accounts.
Stablecoins can also allow people in countries with hyperinflation to preserve their savings without buying the underlying fiat currencies. They can also be used to accelerate cross-border transfers by acting as a "bridge currency" between the two fiat currencies.

#signal #Coinbase

NFL rosters are fluid creatures. Players work their way into key roles while others fade, either due to injury or ineffectiveness. Thanks to the rise of fantasy football, what was once a problem shared by an elite few coaches has been filtered down to the low stakes world of office pools and lowkey, months-long high school reunions.
That creates one of the biggest problems with the fantasy experience; figuring out which players to pull from the dregs of the late draft rounds or free agent pool, and who to give up to bring them aboard. There's no worse feeling than landing what you think is a rising star, only to watch him put up five points each week while the guy you dropped becomes a dominant force for someone else. Not only does that hurt your squad, but also gives the rest of the league leverage to mock your terrible decisions.
That's what we're trying to help you avoid. Welcome to Ladders, USA Today's only fantasy football column/video series co-hosted by a man who willingly calls himself a Rhode Island Scumbag. That's Mike "Yaj" Boyajian, who joins me as FTW's special fantasy ****** yst. Last year, we hit on the rise of guys like Brenton Strange, Christian Watson and Harold Fannin Jr. -- nothing too outrageous, but enough to carry you to a ****** le. We're back at it for 2026.
We've had a few names rise up draft boards and waiver wire bids as teams finalized their 53-man rosters -- enough to split our waiver targets and late-round steals into two parts. Let's start with trending tight ends and running backs before diving into wide receivers in our next breakdown.
The rules? There's pretty much only one; players have to be 33 percent owned or less in Yahoo! fantasy football leagues. We'll also look at each player's average draft position (ADP) in half-PPR leagues thanks to data from Fantasy Pros. Who's been responsible for the most preseason chatter rising up from the bottom of draft guides? Let's start in Los Angeles.

#draft #Football #late

BERLIN (AP) — The FIBA women's World Cup begins Friday with the U.S. in search of a fifth consecutive championship.
The Americans have won 30 straight games in the tournament, dating to a loss to Russia in the 2006 semifinals. They'll have a young group of players trying to extend that run led by Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers, who are making their debuts in the event.
It's not all youth for the U.S. as gold medal collector Breanna Stewart, who has already won three Olympic and three World Cup championships leads the squad.
France will be the main competitor for the Americans, having lost by only one point in the 2024 Paris Olympics gold medal game. The French team is hungry to avenge that loss. Other teams that could be a threat to end the U.S. streak include Spain, Belgium and China. The Chinese team lost to the Americans in the 2022 World Cup final.
The 16 teams were put into four groups and each will have a round-robin stage. The second- and third-place teams in each group will advance to a qualification round while the winner of the pool will advance to the quarterfinals. The four winners of the qualification rounds will then advance to the quarterfinals as well. In the 2022 World Cup there were only 12 teams and two pools. Teams had to play five games in six days before advancing to the quarterfinals. FIBA will be using two sites in Berlin to play the 36 games.

#teams #americans #berlin #fiba

The Chicago Blackhawks are tired of losing. Tied for the third-longest active postseason drought in the NHL at six seasons, the Blackhawks are trying to prove that the rebuild is nearing completion and that they're ready to make big strides this year to become competitive.
With Connor Bedard absent until mid-November after undergoing shoulder surgery in July, this is the perfect time for other players to prove they can step up. If the Blackhawks want to jump back into the playoffs this season, the team's youth will have to be a big piece of the puzzle.
In the 2025-26 season, the Blackhawks were tied for the NHL's second-youngest team by average age. It's no secret that they have maintained one of the league's most talented prospect pools since the start of their rebuild. The team has finished in the top 10 of The Athletic's NHL prospect pool rankings list in each of the past four years.
Over the past two seasons, we have seen more and more of these prospects break into the NHL and ease into full-time spots on the Blackhawks' roster. The question is: who will make the biggest leap in their development and establish themselves in the league?
With training camp just around the corner, there are already a few potential breakout candidates for the Chicago Blackhawks.

#blackhawks #seasons #rebuild

Nvidia has agreed to buy AI firm Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a move that expands the chipmaker's capabilities beyond hardware and up the AI stack. Hugging Face — the AI company at the center of a hacking incident earlier this year that raised cybersecurity concerns — has exploded in popularity, now boasting 18 million users, providing an open-source hub for collaborative machine learning. In a blog post Thursday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Hugging Face "will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem."
The deal follows a series of acquisitions within the AI industry as chipmakers and financial companies alike rush to lock down the open models atop the AI stack. The Hugging Face deal marks the second-largest for Nvidia; the chip company entered a $20 billion non-exclusive agreement to buy **** ets from chipmaker Groq in December. The chip company closed a similar deal last month, striking a $6 billion structured agreement with Poolside, an open-weight model builder. Also last month, financial infrastructure firm Stripe agreed to acquire open-weight model aggregator OpenRouter for $7.5 billion.
— Jake Angelo

#company #agreed #firm #stack

MIO — If you follow Mio senior Mia McGregor on social media, you'll see a lot of different gyms and arenas from her relaxed view courtside.
Or, as McGregor puts it: Courtside > Poolside.
There's certainly no other place you'd expect to find one of the most prolific girls basketball players in Michigan high school basketball history than in a gym.
Certainly not lounging poolside.
The past three years of McGregor's high school career at Mio have brought countless courtside pictures, many from visits to college programs seeking her services for the next four or five years.

#courtside #mcgregor #Basketball

Santos FC is incorporating APS – Acqua Performance System into its high-performance structure, a methodology developed by Pai e Filho ****** soria, a national benchmark in large-scale and shared-use swimming pools. Created especially for high-performance sports, APS establishes a new concept in aquatic environment care, aimed at athletes' training, recovery, and preparation routines.
Unlike conventional pool treatment, APS is based on an athlete-focused approach. The methodology combines highly precise chemical management, continuous monitoring of water parameters, automation, filtration efficiency, and complementary technologies, seeking to provide a more controlled aquatic environment suited to the demands of a high-performance sports routine.
One of the system's main focuses is eliminating factors ****** ociated with respiratory, eye, and skin discomfort, especially in athletes exposed to the pool frequently.
APS is based on the principle that an aquatic environment developed specifically for high performance helps give athletes better conditions to train, carry out their recovery processes, and reach their full potential. By reducing factors that cause discomfort and more precisely controlling water conditions, the methodology seeks to improve the quality and consistency of training. Better preparation conditions allow athletes to get more out of each session and, as a result, contribute to the development of their sporting performance.
With more than 30 years of experience in shared-use pools, Pai e Filho ****** soria developed APS from the knowledge accumulated in the operation and management of large aquatic facilities. The methodology is intended exclusively for training centers and environments connected to high-performance sports.

#methodology #athletes #developed #conditions

Nvidia Corporation (NVDA) is making another aggressive move to strengthen its position in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race, and its recently reported $6 billion licensing deal with AI startup Poolside could prove strategically important, along with $1 billion in equity investment.
The agreement gives Nvidia access to Poolside's AI model-development technology and brings more than 100 engineers into its Nemotron effort, as the chipmaker looks to accelerate open-weight AI models that can compete with increasingly capable Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek and Kimi.
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#Stock #poolside #nemotron #kimi

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Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) is making an aggressive push into AI models, striking a multibillion-dollar deal with Poolside to develop a powerful open-weight system aimed at rivals including OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Kimi.
Nvidia will pay $6 billion to license Poolside's AI technology and invest another $1 billion in the startup at a $12 billion pre-money valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
More than 100 Poolside employees, including engineers, are also expected to join Nvidia and work on its Nemotron open-weight AI project.
Poolside said its Nvidia deal aims to advance AGI as an open technology rather than one "controlled by few," according to a shareholder letter reviewed by the publication.

#including #technology

ATLANTA (AP) — The PGA Tour is reshaping its postseason for 2028 by ending the year with a Tour Championship played over two weeks at different golf courses involving match play.
PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp announced the changes Tuesday before the Tour Championship, which currently is 72 holes of stroke play for the top 30 players. Whoever wins the tournament is declared the FedEx Cup champion and earns $10 million in official money from the $40 million purse.
Starting in 2028, the BMW Championship — the only postseason event that rotates is being held that year at Olympia Fields near Chicago — will be for the leading 90 players on the points list. Points from the season continue, and the leader will be the season champion and bonus money distributed accordingly.
The top 32 after the BMW Championship will be broken into eight groups of four-player pools. The leading two players from each pool advance to the final event, which will be match play over four days. Even players eliminated early will play through Sunday to determine final positions.
That means the BMW Championship will offer three trophies — the BMW Championship, the Western Golf ******* ociation and the PGA Tour Championship Series Finale.

#championship #points

When someone asks me to name the best semiconductor stock to buy for now and the next few years, my answer is Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). I look at plenty of other chip names, including Broadcom and Advanced Micro Devices, yet I keep coming back to Nvidia because it sits at the center of how artificial intelligence (AI) is built and used, not just at the edge of the hardware market.
The core of the story is Nvidia's data center business. In the most recent fiscal year (ended Jan. 25, 2026), Nvidia reported quarterly data center revenue of $62.3 billion, up 75% year over year, and full-year data center sales are expected to be in the neighborhood of $180 billion. These are massive numbers and show that data centers are the main engine for the company. When hyperscalers and enterprises decide how many AI clusters to build, they start with Nvidia's platform, then layer everything else around it.
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The company's platform is not just about a single AI chip. The company's Blackwell architecture connects hundreds of billions of transistors, custom interconnects, and massive pools of memory into unified graphics processing units (GPUs), then scales those GPUs into rack-level systems like GB200 and GB300 that act like giant accelerators. On top of those systems sit DGX SuperPODs, Grace CPUs, and software like CUDA and TensorRT that developers already know and trust. When I picture the AI factories that companies are building, I see Nvidia in the center of the blueprints.
All the above is the technical side. The psychological side matters, too. Nvidia has become the default AI stock for many investors. It is the ticker people think of when they hear about new models, new data centers, or new AI enterprise rollouts. **** ysts often mention Nvidia first when discussing AI infrastructure, and the stock still carries a broad buy rating and targets pointing to meaningful upside from current levels. That attention can create volatility, yet it also means the company gets a steady stream of capital and scrutiny, which pushes management to keep delivering.

#NVIDIA #like #gpus #flashing

K-pop starLisa turned up the heat with her elegant figure, as she posed poolside in a black bikini during her recent vacation, which she shared on social media.
The singer completed the chic look with gold accessories and a loose bun, and she also donned black baggy transparent pants as her cover-up.
The performer also sported a powder pink matching set including a sports bra, mini-skirt, a bomber black jacket and white sneakers.
In another photo in the carousel, she was spotted in a monochromatic orange look with a strapless baggy top and flowy mini-skirt.
Lisa showed off her elegant figure online (@ Instagram)

#elegant #skirt #lisa

Burry re-established his bearish position with March 2027 $100 puts on Palantir, trading at $175, implying a 99%-plus collapse.
Palantir's Q2 numbers undercut Burry's thesis, with revenue up 93%, U.S. commercial sales up 149%, and $1.22 billion in free cash flow.
For Burry to win, Palantir's government moat, commercial growth, and cash generation would all need to simultaneously collapse, but the data does not show that happening.
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The stock market has never had trouble producing extreme opinions, particularly when investors are trying to put a value on companies at the center of a technological revolution. Artificial intelligence has made that problem even harder. Some investors see a once-in-a-generation transformation that will create enormous pools of profits. Others see a speculative cycle in which today's growth rates eventually collide with tomorrow's valuation reality.

#collapse #generation

On August 17, Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion to help OpenAI lease a massive data center in Pike County, Ohio, being developed by SoftBank-owned SB Energy. The site could reach 8 gigawatts of capacity, with the first 800 megawatts due online in 2028, and OpenAI has signed on for 20 years. Nvidia will also put $1.5 billion directly into SB Energy and will be the facility's exclusive chip supplier. It's the latest example of the company financing the very infrastructure that runs its own chips, a habit that keeps expanding even as it keeps drawing scrutiny.
The idea behind the guarantee is that Nvidia is using its balance sheet to lock up long-lived sites where its chips can run across multiple hardware generations, and the numbers behind that bet keep climbing. Revenue growth is expected to accelerate toward 97% this quarter, up from 85% the quarter before, as the company rolls out its new Rubin platform. Jensen Huang has floated $1 trillion in combined revenue across 2026 and 2027, which implies roughly $600 billion in fiscal 2028 alone. Demand isn't limited to hyperscalers, either.
SpaceX has said it will build its AI infrastructure exclusively on Nvidia chips, targeting 10 gigawatts of compute by the end of 2027, a build-out estimated to cost $150 billion to $250 billion. Add in the four largest hyperscalers, expected to spend roughly $700 billion on AI chips this year, plus a possible OpenAI or Anthropic IPO that could free up even more capital, and the picture is a company still early in monetizing an entire computing shift. The Ohio guarantee, paired with the $500 billion financing consortium Nvidia formed with six major financial institutions the week before, fits that same playbook: widen the pool of customers locked into its hardware so no single client's slowdown can shake the business.
The obvious pushback is circularity. Nvidia is effectively helping fund a customer's ability to buy Nvidia chips, first through the $500 billion consortium with BlackRock, Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, Brookfield and Goldman Sachs, and now through a direct guarantee tied to OpenAI's Ohio lease. Huang insists this isn't circular financing, but the plan to securitize AI infrastructure into a tradable ******* et class invites comparisons to how mortgage pools were packaged before 2008. Nvidia's exposure here isn't unlimited. It covers a portion of lease and power payments and a minimum-value commitment on the site, not the full $105 billion or all of OpenAI's obligations. But if OpenAI defaults, Nvidia still absorbs the difference between that floor value and whatever the site fetches if it's re-leased or sold.

#openai

In the AI infrastructure boom, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) sells the brains of the AI factory while Micron (NASDAQ: MU) supplies the memory that keeps those brains fed with data, and that difference shapes which stock will benefit more from the current phase of this historic spending wave. In my view, Nvidia is the clearer winner because a greater fraction of every dollar of hyperscaler capex is spent on its accelerators than goes toward memory chips of the type that Micron manufactures. Micron still looks like a powerful second-derivative play, since AI servers can't be built without the high-bandwidth memory it supplies.
The money flow this year is wildly high. The hyperscalers themselves say they plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in 2026 alone to expand AI data centers, GPU clusters, networking, and power infrastructure, a sharp jump from already elevated 2025 levels. One estimate puts combined capex for Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms at around $700 billion, with roughly two-thirds of that directed toward AI infrastructure rather than traditional cloud. Within that budget, the largest line item is the AI server stack itself, where accelerated servers built around high-end GPUs drive most of the component revenue growth. And of course, the hyperscalers are not the only tech players building data centers now.
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Nvidia sits directly in the center of this buying spree. Its data center business now revolves around entire racks of AI computing power, not just single chips. Systems like the GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip and GB200 NVL72 tie together dozens of CPUs and GPUs into logical accelerators that can train and serve trillion-parameter models more efficiently than the prior-generation Hopper platforms. Hyperscalers are lining up to deploy these systems in their AI clouds, with massive companies committing to offer GB200 NVL72 instances to customers who want to run large language models at scale. All this sounds dense, but the basic point is that Nvidia products are in steady demand.
Nvidia's roadmap also continues to push the limits of performance and memory. Architectures like Blackwell and its new Vera Rubin processors combine vast computing throughput with enormous pools of high bandwidth memory (HBM), turning racks into "AI factories." That keeps Nvidia at the absolute center of procurement decisions when cloud providers are calculating how many clusters they will need to handle their training and inferencing workloads in 2026 and beyond.

#memory #high #signal

Where to watch Grand Slam of Curling: Schedule, TV channels, live streams for 2026-27 GSOC season originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
The Grand Slam of Curling is back for another season, with new broadcast and streaming deals for 2026-27 bringing fans even better access to all the action.
The sport's biggest stars will vie for glory at five GSOC events across Canada from October through December, with men's and women's teams playing for the top share in the largest prize pools in curling at around $400,000 per event.
Through fields will vary by tournament, expect to see numerous Olympic medalists at each stop including teams skipped by Milan Cortina 2026 gold medal winners Brad Jacobs of Canada and Anna Hasselborg of Sweden. The remaining medalists from 2026 also are in the mix, with Bruce Mouat (Scotland), Yannick Schwaller (Switzerland), Alina Pätz (Switzerland) and Rachel Homan (Canada) expected to lead their teams once again in the GSOC.
It's the greatest show on ice. Here's all you need to know to tune in to every bonspiel.

#gsoc #teams #season

Corey McKeown said he was "buzzing" to score the winner on his Hartlepool debut – seven years after Pools boss Lee Clark handed him his first senior appearance at Blyth Spartans.
McKeown netted the only goal at Aldershot Town just 10 minutes after Clark brought him.
Clark was the winger's first manager at Blyth and McKeown was thrilled to be reunited with him at Hartlepool in the summer.
Hartlepool are fifth in the National League after winning their opening two matches and McKeown told BBC Radio Tees: "I'm absolutely buzzing. I missed out in the first game so I was ready to go on and take my chance.
"The manager just gave me confidence and said go on and change the game and thankfully I did that.

#pools

Freight brokers often face hidden risks with their trailer insurance. Andy Kuchar, President of Centerline Insurance Company, reveals why many trailers are "criminally underinsured" and how common policies exclude crucial over-the-road coverage. Learn the red flags in your current insurance and how dedicated policies protect against massive liabilities, even for small incidents.
Freight brokers operating trailer pools may be carrying insurance that provides virtually no protection when those trailers are in use on the road. Andy Kuchar, of Centerline — an insurance company owned by Watkins ***** ociated Industries, the family behind Watkins Motor Lines that became FedEx Freight — said the problem surfaced clearly when his firm launched a dedicated trailer insurance product roughly five and a half years ago.
Kuchar said the first policy he reviewed after entering the market, written by a major carrier he declined to name, contained a specific exclusion for trailers over the road. The broker holding that policy believed it was fully covered and had thousands of trailers in its fleet. "The coverage was with a great company. It was inexpensive, but it didn't really cover anything," Kuchar said.
"I think you need to start asking some very pointed questions of your insurance agent to say, do I really have this covered? And show me." — Andy Kuchar, Centerline
The stakes are rising for brokers following the post-Montgomery legal environment, where plaintiffs' attorneys are increasingly bypassing small single-truck carriers — who typically carry only $1 million in coverage against a federal minimum of $750,000 — and targeting brokers directly because of their deeper pockets. Providing a trailer to a motor carrier adds a distinct layer of liability beyond brokering a load, Kuchar said, because the equipment itself can be named in litigation. He cited one claim where a worker unloading building materials from a parked trailer was killed in an accident; the trailer lessor was pulled into the lawsuit. "Today to get somebody out of a claim is usually at least $100,000," he said.

#freight #company

Emilie Kiser has apologized after footage from a family trip showed her 16-month-old son, Teddy, briefly sitting on a boat without a life jacket.
In a TikTok video posted Friday, Aug. 14, the 27-year-old influencer said she and her husband, Brady Kiser, made a mistake. She also said she believes the public discussion is important because it holds people accountable.
Kiser said the moment occurred during a June trip to Mallorca, Spain. Teddy had become fussy, she explained, so she and Brady removed his life jacket for a few moments while they tried to calm him. The footage appeared in a since-deleted vacation video shared by fellow influencer Madi Curtis.
The response has been especially sensitive because Kiser's older son, Trigg, died at age 3 following a drowning in the family's backyard pool in Chandler, Arizona, in May 2025. Since returning to social media after his death, Kiser has repeatedly discussed water safety and the precautions she believes families should take around pools and open water.
"I understand this conversation. I think it is important. It holds people accountable," Kiser said. "I know that I am not perfect. I know that we make mistakes, and all I can say is that I'm sorry, and that I know we made a mistake."

#know #teddy

Debra Messing has never been afraid to embrace a swimsuit moment, and as she celebrates her 58th birthday, her collection of vacation photos proves her confidence has only grown with age.
The Will & Grace star has shared plenty of sun-soaked snapshots over the years, from glamorous poolside selfies to carefree days spent on the water, but one throwback takes us all the way back to her teens.
Long before she became one of television's most recognizable redheads, Debra was an 18-year-old with dreams of becoming an actress, and the gorgeous vacation photo shows just how little she's changed.
In the nostalgic snap, Debra looks radiant in a black printed bandeau bikini while enjoying a family vacation on a cruise ship.
Wearing her naturally curly brunette hair short, the future star beams at the camera as she poses on deck, giving no hint of the Hollywood career that lay ahead of her.

#vacation #long #wearing

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong recently claimed crypto "doesn't get enough credit for the financial access it's already unlocked for the world" in a post on X. Armstrong noted that stablecoins allowed "anyone, anywhere" to access a low-inflation currency and send it "24/7 for a fraction of a cent", that decentralized finance (DeFi) applications gave "anyone access to credit" and unbanked individuals access to financial services, and that tokenized stocks would expose four billion "unbrokered people" to the U.S. stock market.
Armstrong's bullish take isn't surprising, since Coinbase is one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges. If you agree with Armstrong's perspective, then it might be a good time to review how those catalysts could boost your crypto portfolio's long-term returns.
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
The market's largest stablecoins, Tether (CRYPTO: USDT) and USD Coin (CRYPTO: USDC), are pegged to the U.S. dollar. Tether is more widely used overseas, while USD Coin -- which is only minted by Circle (NYSE: CRCL) -- is the leading stablecoin in the U.S. market.
Stablecoins can be deposited into third-party lending markets, automated market makers, and liquidity pools to earn higher yields than traditional dollar-based savings accounts. However, some of those platforms are much riskier than FDIC-backed banking accounts.

#stablecoins

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger have lowered the asking price of their Los Angeles mansion after struggling to find a buyer.
The couple initially put their Pacific Palisades home on the market for $32 million in September 2023. The 11,000 sq ft property, which has now been relisted for $20 million, features six bedroom suites, a full-size movie theater decorated with plush, velvet green sofas, a sauna, basketball court, an outdoor pool, a grand dining room decked with sky-high ceilings, and a **** ious kitchen complete with marble countertops. The home even includes a teakwood spa with hot and cold plunge pools and a steam room for a "complete wellness experience". The couple also installed a gold simulator at the property.
Chris and Katherine have resided in the luxurious abode since 2021 after the Marvel Cinematic Universe star purchased the land in 2018 for $15.6 million. Prior to moving in, the pair spent two years renovating the **** e. The property is located in the hills and boasts sweeping views of Santa Monica.
Katherine Schwarzenegger and Chris Pratt lowered the price of their mansion (@ Getty Images for Disney)
The actor married Katherine in 2019, and the pair share three children – daughters, Lyla Maria and Eloise Christina, and son, Ford Fitzgerald. The Jurassic World star also shares a a son named Jack with his ex-wife, Anna Faris.

#pratt #schwarzenegger #couple

Isla Fisher looked incredible as she slipped into a plunging black swimsuit for a sun-soaked day by the pool.
The Confessions of a Shopaholic star, who celebrated her 50th birthday earlier this year, showed off her toned physique in the chic one-piece as she relaxed on a lounger with friends.
Sharing a series of images from the outing on Instagram, Isla appeared in high spirits as she sat cross-legged beside the pool, with her red hair swept into a relaxed updo.
Isla looks incredible in the plunging black swimsuit (Instagram)
The actress kept her poolside look effortlessly simple, accessorising with delicate jewellery while the plunging neckline and spaghetti straps of her swimsuit put the focus firmly on her sculpted figure.

#relaxed #fisher

Scooping ice cream, lifeguarding swimming pools, and restocking retail stores during the summer has long been teenagers' rite of passage. For most, it's the first time they build real-world skills and earn their own pocket change. But now, teens are up against the worst summer job market since the Great Recession. Landing a job at the back of a mom-and-pop shop feels almost as hard as scoring a full-time corporate role.
"I didn't know it was going to be this hard. I thought it was going to be quite easy. And with all the applications I sent through, I feel a bit discouraged," Simon Chow, a 17-year-old who spent months applying to dozens of summer gigs, tells Fortune. "I'm looking everywhere, and I'll take anything at this point."
Around 790,000 jobs in May, June, and July of this year opened up for teenagers—down from around 801,000 gigs from 2025—according to a recent report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. And if the study's prediction plays out, this stretch of summer would mark the lowest teen hiring since 1948, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the data. Beyond the previous year, the only other time this figure dropped to a low this concerning was in 2010 (960,000), when the U.S. was reeling from the Great Recession.
Now, teenagers are having to get crafty to land their minimum-wage summer gigs. Like many job seekers, they're playing the numbers game, sending out dozens of applications only to be ghosted. Others are employing the old-fashioned strategy deployed by their parents, strutting up to storefronts with resume in hand and elevator pitch memorized. And after months of searching, some tough realities have become clear: landing a seasonal job in this market can require connections, experience, and the guts to put themselves out there.
Teenagers across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., tell Fortune this year's summer job market has been miserable—but some are finding a way in.

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Dak Prescott has spent the early days of training camp focused on football, running drills with CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens in Oxnard as the Cowboys prepare for their September 13 opener against the Giants.
On the fifth day of camp, Prescott welcomed a special visitor who cared far more about sunglasses than the playbook.
WFAA-TV reporter Mike Leslie shared the video on Instagram, capturing the wholesome exchange between Prescott and his daughter on the sideline before he returned to practice. Ramos dressed MJ specifically for the occasion, putting her in a white Cowboys logo top, a matching skirt, sneakers, and a hairband with a ribbon.
The two-year-old tossed a mini football to her dad before playfully ******* ing the sunglasses off his face in a moment captured by WFAA's Mike Leslie and shared widely online. The visit came the same week Ramos posted poolside photos of herself and MJ, captioning one simply "Obsessed," as she continues sharing glimpses of their co-parenting routine.

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AUBURN — Alex Golesh was rather chipper for the first media availability of Auburn football's preseason camp because, he said, it was the "best time of the year."
Those were quite literally the first words of his Tuesday, Aug. 4, media availability, which ended with a message to the media in attendance saying, "It's football time, guys. Let's ride," as he walked out of the room.
Soon after his opening sentence, Golesh repeated the message. It's the best time of year because he gets to coach, but he added that there's "nothing else really going on other than us, the team, and our staff."
It turned out he was being quite literal, because the Tigers will kick off their first preseason under Golesh with a near-two-week stay at the Auburn Marriott Opelika Resort & Spa at Grand National, which describes itself on its website as having cabanas alongside resort-style pools. There's also the three-course (as in 54-holes) RTJ Golf Trail at Grand National right next door.
Golesh did not specify whether or not the program would be spending any time at the pool or on the links in their off days, but his explainer of the move didn't provide much optimism for anything beyond football.

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AI is transforming executive candidate searches, making sourcing faster and more expansive.
Recruiters are using AI to uncover overlooked talent and be more productive.
Trust, persuasion, and cultural fit, however, still keep the most critical hiring stages human-led.
AI is accelerating many parts of executive-level hiring, though other parts remain constrained by distinctly human obstacles.
Recruiters say homing in on suitable candidates can account for as much as half the work in high-stakes C-suite job searches. AI can speed up that process by mapping the market, surfacing names, combing through years of internal notes, and suggesting unconventional talent pools.

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The race to become America's next economic heavyweight may already have a frontrunner.
The latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) migration data show billions of dollars in taxpayer wealth flowing into Texas, while Census figures show the state's largest metropolitan areas continue to outpace much of the country in population growth, strengthening a decades-long shift in America's economic center of gravity.
What's more, Texas isn't relying on a single boomtown. Dallas-Fort Worth added more residents than any metropolitan area in the country over the past year, while Houston, Austin and San Antonio also ranked among the nation's fastest-growing metros.
That unusual breadth gives Texas multiple engines of economic growth, providing businesses with larger labor pools, diversified industries and a broader customer base than states anchored by a single dominant city.
Billions In Taxpayer Income Are Leaving Two Iconic States — As A New Economic Map Emerges

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