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Candy prices have risen 44% since 2021 amid a worsening shortage of cocoa beans, driven by crop disease, poor harvests and climate pressures in West Africa. In response, separate groups of food innovators are developing chocolate substitutes that reduce or eliminate reliance on traditional cocoa beans.
Anthropic filed a 335-page S-1 prospectus on Monday ahead of its stock offering, including a founders' letter urging investors to see their purchase as more than transactional. The filing devotes 94 pages to risk factors, warning that AI models could behave unpredictably and cause catastrophic harm beyond what the insurance industry could cover, while also describing AI's potential to usher in an 'age of miracles.'
Intel shares fell more than 20% after the company warned that difficulties in the PC market, caused by elevated memory-chip prices, are expected to persist into 2028. The warning signals a longer-than-expected downturn for a core segment of Intel's business.
Unreal Snacks CEO Kevin McCarthy, who joined the company in 2014 at age 22, described how the better-for-you chocolate brand recovered from overexpansion by shrinking to 38 stores before rebuilding to 35,000 locations across the U.S. and Canada. He also detailed a company perk giving employees unlimited access to free chocolate.
Court filings in an ongoing lawsuit against Meta have surfaced internal documents, after a judge ruled they were not protected by attorney-client privilege despite the company routing related correspondence through lawyers. The documents reportedly reveal internal plans and research touching on how Meta's products affect young users, adding to litigation alleging the company's products harm minors.
New research cited in the report finds that women perceived as highly intelligent tend to face worse treatment at work, while men with similar cognitive ability do not experience the same penalty. The findings point to an unconscious bias affecting how competence is perceived and rewarded differently by gender. The report illustrates this with the experience of sales veteran Sara Winslow, who said conditions grew uncomfortable after nearly 20 years in her field.
An investigation found that scientists working for chemical and plastics companies identified potential health risks from microplastics as early as the 1970s. The findings indicate this awareness predates public recognition of microplastics as a contaminant now found throughout human bodies and the environment.
Go! Retail Group, operating Toys 'R' Us under license from WHP Global, is asking suppliers to accept payment terms of up to 180 days as it plans to open 120 new stores by Thanksgiving, according to the New York Post. That's well beyond the industry-standard 30 to 90 days, and some toymakers say they're wary given the chain's 2017 bankruptcy and 2018 liquidation. Basic Fun CEO Jay Foreman criticized the terms publicly, while Go! Retail CEO Gideon Schlessinger said he has seen no vendor hesitation.
Crypto-industry political action committees have amassed $176 million in contributions ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, according to reporting on campaign finance figures. The funds are intended to back candidates viewed as favorable to digital-asset regulation in Congress.
The EPA, under Administrator Lee Zeldin, is set to propose undoing Biden-era methane regulations that were projected to cut emissions from oil and gas operations by 80 percent over 14 years. The rollback would ease standards on low-producing 'marginal wells,' which account for about half of industry methane emissions despite producing only 6 percent of US oil and gas, and would eliminate the Super Emitter Program that flagged large methane releases.
The Los Angeles Times reports that internal memos from chemical companies, dating back decades, show industry scientists were aware that microplastic particles could migrate beyond the gut and deposit in organs. The concern reportedly traces to a 1974 presentation by a German gastroenterologist, which was largely ignored by government scientists but discussed with worry among company researchers.
The author recounts being laid off from a tech job on 18 August during a company restructuring, after being called into an unexpected 1:1 meeting and given until lunch to say goodbyes. Still in a probation period, they received two weeks of paid leave before becoming unemployed for the first time in about ten years. Soon after, they fell ill with suspected Covid, which triggered a pre-existing autoimmune condition, leading to weeks of exhaustion before cortisone treatment brought relief.