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The inferno killed 12 people, destroyed 6,500 structures across the Palisades and Malibu and caused billions of dollars in damage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

The growing price war threatens to widen losses at OpenAI and Anthropic, which are already bleeding billions of dollars a year to pay for computing firepower to build and operate advanced AI systems.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

US sport is priced at the luxury top end, and so much so that the stadiums are mostly shrinking in capacity, rebuilt for many billions with hospitality suites and lounges where once there was seating.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Its early trading also will create and destroy billions of dollars of value in a host of other stocks.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

But over millions or billions of years, they are capable of utterly erasing even very large impact scars.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan