Sony raised the PS5 Pro to $900 and the base PS5 to $649. The real driver: AI data centers consuming DRAM and HBM supply. Your console is subsidizing the AI boom.
California jury finds Meta 70% liable for designing Instagram to be addictive. $5.1M in damages awarded. First-ever jury verdict on social media addiction. 5,000 consolidated cases are next.
Chuck Norris died at 86. Six world karate titles. 30+ films. 203 episodes of Walker. And a meme that introduced him to a generation that never saw his movies.
Only 11 original films have ever been made at $200M+. Half lost money. Gosling is 1-for-3 on big budgets. Thursday previews just beat Oppenheimer. We ran the numbers.
12.8 million tonnes of LNG offline for 3-5 years. Pakistan gets 99% from Qatar. Bangladesh 70%. Taiwan 33% with zero pipeline. We scored 17 countries on who survives.
70% of all memory goes to AI data centers. DRAM prices up 90% in one quarter. Smartphones down 12.9%. GPUs up 50%. We ranked which devices get hit and when.
The largest strategic reserve release in history just happened: 400 million barrels. After the draw, only Japan still meets the IEA 90-day requirement. Australia has 27 days. The UK has 39.
Meta is spending $125B on AI and cutting 16,000 positions. That is $7.8M per job. Amazon’s ratio is $12.5M. Meanwhile 90% of firms report zero AI impact on employment. We ran the numbers.
Oil hit $119. We calculated the per-person monthly cost for 77 countries. Singapore pays $872/mo. Qatar gains $636. The DropThe Oil Shock Index splits the world into 60 countries paying and 17 profiting.
Luxembourg earns the most in the OECD but ranks 14th in real purchasing power. Belgium drops 15 places. We built the DropThe Real Income Index 2026 to rank 34 countries by what workers actually keep after taxes and cost of living.
