Philanthropy leader at Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge says children of billionaires are pushing them to give their wealth away faster (news.google.com)
Billionaire Mark Cuban Says If We Fined Insurance Companies and Providers 100 Each Time They Overbilled, ‘We Could Pay Off the National Debt’ (finance.yahoo.com)
SpaceX Just Tested a Secret Cargo Delivery Vehicle That Could Ship Goods Anywhere on Earth From Space. Here''s What Investors Should Know. (finance.yahoo.com)
NBA Legend Shaq Told ‘Brilliant’ Oldest Son To Pick Out Any Car — He Chose A Mercedes Benz. ‘I’m Rich. We’re Not Rich. Here’s a Chevrolet’ (finance.yahoo.com)
Chinese AI systems have matched the performance of Anthropic’s powerful model Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios, a development poised to reset the global tech race (on.wsj.com)
Rep. Julia Letlow won a hard-fought GOP Senate runoff in Louisiana, defeating state Treasurer John Fleming in the contest to succeed Sen. Bill Cassidy, who had run afoul of President Trump (on.wsj.com)
Dutch fans who flooded Kansas City and its suburbs this past week got a taste of life in the U.S., reigniting a debate: Who lives better, Americans or Europeans? (on.wsj.com)
President Trump on Saturday announced that he nominated Lance Schroyer, a veteran of Oklahoma law enforcement, to serve as his next director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (on.wsj.com)
Why do some people’s chatbot relationships shift toward delusion? Researchers have identified three chatbot behaviors that together can send some users into a spiral, writes @juliejargon (on.wsj.com)
A mix of pugnacity and pragmatism has enabled Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, to achieve a rarity for Italy: a stable government. (on.wsj.com)
Jack Schlossberg looked like he could be a Kennedy for a time such as this. But what made Schlossberg such a compelling social-media star may also have been a liability for his congressional run. (on.wsj.com)
“Pig Lab,” by Will Mackin - In this upside-down world there’d be a pig like Ted Waters, who, one blue winter night outside Marjah, had his leg blown off by a bomb disguised as a guardrail. (www.newyorker.com)
Nobody’s a Stranger When You Play “No Letting Go” - To a young d.j. in 2003, Wayne Wonder’s dancehall anthem seemed like a beacon from a better world. (www.newyorker.com)
László Krasznahorkai Writes Because He Fails - The Nobel laureate on his notoriously long sentences, our estrangement from beauty, and why he would “never voluntarily reread” one of his books. (www.newyorker.com)
“Couture,” Reviewed: Angelina Jolie Faces Trouble with Style - The new melodrama, starring Jolie as a movie director, treats the Paris fashion world as a backdrop for medical and domestic crises. (www.newyorker.com)
Scenes from La Canicule in Paris - During a historic heat wave, air-conditioning has become the linchpin of an intensifying political debate in France. (www.newyorker.com)
Can J. D. Vance Serve Both God and Donald Trump? - The Vice-President has written a book about his faith that leaves out the most important questions. (www.newyorker.com)
The Popularity Contests of “Love Island” - Most romantic reality TV would have us believe that dating is about getting married, or simply being chosen. One show knows better. (www.newyorker.com)
Donald Trump’s Dangerous Politicization of America’s Spy Agencies - Bill Pulte, Trump’s pick for acting Director of National Intelligence, has no national-security experience. (www.newyorker.com)
The Coastal Mysteries of “Romería” and “Rose of Nevada” - In rich, melancholy new films from the directors Carla Simón and Mark Jenkin, the restorative power of cinema turns out to be a shore thing. (www.newyorker.com)
America at 250: A View from Britain, with “The Rest Is History” - The historian-podcasters Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland explain why losing the thirteen colonies “annoyed” the British, but “it could have been a lot worse.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Supreme Court Enables Trump’s Cruel Immigration Agenda - Two new rulings make it easier for the Administration to prevent migrants from claiming asylum and to expel lawful refugees. (www.newyorker.com)
The Artistry of Tarot - Also: the modern reggae of Original Koffee, Tina Fey’s modern take on “The Four Seasons,” Hugh Jackman’s gory Robin Hood, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
The Israeli Employers Who Want Their Palestinian Workers Back - More than a hundred thousand Palestinians worked in Israel before October 7th. Most can no longer cross the border—and many are now destitute. (www.newyorker.com)
Refik Anadol, The Art World’s Happy Warrior for A.I. - His new museum, Dataland, is a joyful monument to the technology. Is he a visionary, or Silicon Valley’s court painter? (www.newyorker.com)
Everyone Wants to Touch the Blue Coating in the Reflecting Pool - How the President’s stalled renovation projects inspired a wave of Schadenfreude sightseeing. (www.newyorker.com)
America’s Last Bookie Goes Down - Tim Pughsley built a sports-betting website that moved billions, then the I.R.S. got involved. In the age of FanDuel and DraftKings, where is the line between legal and illegal gambling? (www.newyorker.com)
How Bad an Idea Was Brexit? - It hasn’t done what its supporters promised—but it has reshaped politics not only in the U.K. but across Europe and in the United States. (www.newyorker.com)