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OpenAI confidentially filed for an IPO earlier this week, following in the footsteps of Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Restaurant customer traffic declined 6.7% from a year earlier in the three months through May 1, an improvement from the previous quarter but still a loss that executives are trying to reverse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

In his opening statement, Gates echoed an interview from earlier this year where he said he exercised poor judgement in meeting Epstein and was "one of many people who regret ever knowing him".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Two weeks earlier, CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Havana and met with Cuban officials.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

It was the mattress left behind by whomever had lived there earlier that had inspired him.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el