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CNET compared the Shark Tank-featured Coldest water bottle to a standard Owala bottle, filling each with equal water and ice and tracking temperature with a meat thermometer over 36 hours. Early readings showed Owala consistently running a couple degrees colder than Coldest, with both bottles still delivering chilled water as the test progressed from 52°F to 60°F by the 24-hour mark.
According to the Financial Times, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, SMBC and MUFG are exploring significant risk-transfer deals to shift portions of AI data center debt off their balance sheets, after racing to underwrite such loans for projects tied to Oracle and Meta. One case cited by Bloomberg involves $38 billion in construction debt for an Oracle-leased data center project in Texas and Wisconsin, which a bank group including JPMorgan and MUFG has spent over six months trying to distribute, with some lenders now selling pieces at a discount to non-bank buyers.
Items from Stanley Kubrick's film archive are heading to auction, including the axe Jack Nicholson wielded in 'The Shining' and the star-child prop from '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The collection will be exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and London ahead of sale.
Benjamin Rosen, the Wall Street analyst turned venture investor who helped bring Apple to Morgan Stanley for its IPO and later financed Compaq and Lotus, has died at age 93. He was widely credited with convincing skeptical investors and institutions that personal computers were a serious business, not a passing fad.
Long-distance migratory shorebirds such as the Hudsonian godwit face mounting threats, with scientists still uncertain about where and when these birds encounter the greatest dangers during their journeys. Researchers like Stanley Senner point to shorebirds as ecological indicators, noting that their decline correlates with faster coastal erosion, reduced carbon capture, and disrupted food webs, such as unchecked crab populations in the Yellow Sea damaging native vegetation.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and TrendForce report that legacy memory types like NOR flash and SLC NAND are facing severe supply shortages as manufacturers redirect production capacity toward more profitable HBM and DRAM chips driven by AI demand. Contract prices for both chip types have already more than doubled in the first half of 2026, with SLC NAND expected to rise another 120-170% in the second half.
A cross-country road trip prompted an examination of self-storage facilities as a defining fixture of American life, alongside churches. The industry, which began mostly as small mom-and-pop operations in the 1970s, has grown into a major institutional asset class, with the U.S. holding roughly 90 percent of global self-storage capacity. Texas leads all states in facility count, while Hawaii has the fewest, and New York City ranks third among metro areas.
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT for Financial Services, a Wall Street-tailored version of ChatGPT Work built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore, powered by its new GPT-6 Astra model. The tool can research potential M&A targets, pull data from industry-standard financial sources, and automatically generate formatted PowerPoint pitch decks matching a bank's style guide.
OpenAI has released ChatGPT for Financial Services, a specialized version of its enterprise product built with input from Morgan Stanley and Evercore. Powered by its newest model, GPT-6 Astra, the tool can research companies, analyze financial data and automatically build the pitch decks that junior investment bankers typically produce by hand.
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller published a Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and readers quickly flagged telltale AI-generated phrasing using detection tools like Pangram. Druckenmiller confirmed he used AI to draft the piece, comparing it to using a calculator, and WSJ opinion editor Paul Gigot backed the decision not to disclose AI assistance, calling AI use a 'fact of modern life.'