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South Park isn’t holding back any punches — it just took a dig at Apple and Google.The satirical comedy show shared an announcement from its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, on Instagram on Tuesday, ahead of the release of its 29th season on September 16.”Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA,” the creators wrote in the statement.The post was accompanied by a picture of the South Park logo, with a license plate spelling out “AMERICA” pinned over the word “Park.” A glowing US flag was…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Clarence Koh, 30, a software engineer who lives in Singapore but works US hours. It’s been edited for length and clarity.When I was studying computer science at a university in Singapore, I joined a one-year overseas work-and-study program meant to encourage entrepreneurship.I was supposed to spend the year in Toronto, taking classes at a host university while interning at a startup. But because of the pandemic, I had to stay in Singapore and complete the program remotely.On my first day as an intern, the startup announced it was being acquired by…

President Donald Trump has retaliated against Canada’s retaliation against US tariffs.Trump on Tuesday ordered new tariffs on some Canadian goods and outright bans on others, the White House said.The bans, set to take effect September 29, impact many kinds of Canadian alcohol, some motorcycles, some dairy products, molasses, and nonalcoholic beer. The new 50% tariffs, set to take effect September 15, cover a broad range of Canadian cheeses, manufacturing materials like some steel and aluminum products, golf carts, and certain types of furniture, among other goods.The White House said the bans were “in response to continued discrimination against the commerce…

Hedge-fund manager Brian Kelly has his staff working 24/7, yet his payroll costs are a fraction of what they once were. That’s because Kelly — who previously ran a cryptocurrency hedge fund — created his new trading firm, Bracket22, to be powered entirely by agentic artificial intelligence.”I used to have about seven or eight employees all around the world. A lot of them were based in New York,” Kelly told CNBC. “Between their salaries and compute and healthcare and everything like that, my payroll was well into the millions of dollars per year.” Factoring in things such as office space…

Jon Rahm of Legion XIII gets ready to putt on the 12th green during day four of LIV Golf Indianapolis at The Club at Chatham Hills in Westfield, Indiana, Aug. 23, 2026.Michael Miller | ISI Photos | Getty ImagesLIV Golf has filed for bankruptcy protection as the upstart golf league faces a Saudi funding cliff and searches for new investment. The golf venture — initially backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, or PIF — said Tuesday it has entered into a restructuring support agreement with BC Partner Advisors LP, the credit arm of private equity firm BC Partners. As…

U.S. President Donald Trump and CEO of Ford Jim Farley clap, as President Trump visits a Ford production center, in Dearborn, Michigan, U.S., January 13, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersThe Trump administration expressed “profound concern” Tuesday about Ford Motor’s ties to Chinese companies that it believes could be detrimental to the Detroit carmaker and U.S. automotive industry.In a letter addressed to Ford CEO Jim Farley, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy questioned the automaker’s strategic trajectory with Chinese companies such as battery provider CATL “as it pertains to American national automotive manufacturing integrity, supply chain exposure, and reliance on technologies of foreign…

The big drama in AI land today is decidedly nerdy stuff.But the hubbub highlights a concern everyone should care about: Can what you type into AI help train a machine that one day beats you at your own game?On Monday, Tristan Buckmaster, an NYU mathematician, and Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, released papers claiming new results related to a famously thorny scientific question: Can the math used to predict the movement of water and air suddenly hit a breaking point?Solving that problem could lead to a $1 million prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute. While the pair…

Congratulations to Google and Meta — they’re expecting.OpenAI’s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, was describing her company’s ads ambitions on Tuesday when she said that ChatGPT is like “if Google and Meta had a baby.”Friar made the remarks before a full room of investors and analysts at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco.The comment succinctly outlines OpenAI’s ambition to turn ChatGPT into a money-printing ads platform, following in the footsteps of its tech giant predecessors. In just seven months of placing ads on the chatbot, OpenAI’s ads business is now raking in cash at a rate that…

It’s back-to-school season — and that means that some bright-eyed college freshmen and their proud families are getting ready to shell out six figures to attend their dream schools.Tuition prices have soared in recent decades, even as Americans have grown more skeptical of the value of a four-year degree.Still, there’s a significant number of young adults in college. In 2024, 19.28 million students were enrolled in college, down from the peak of 21 million in 2010, per the Education Data Initiative.For some of those students, pursuing a degree was only possible by taking out loans, either federal or private.Business Insider…

After a couple of years of full-time travel, we decided to plant down some roots in northern New Mexico.We’d gallivanted around the country — north, south, east, and west — and fallen deeply in love with the high desert tucked away in the Rocky Mountains.During our travels, we’d been living in a van decked out with solar panels, and we wanted to find a home that would help us continue our self-sufficient lifestyle.We found a beautiful, off-grid, straw-bale home tucked away on 40 acres with its own solar panels, well, and septic tank. It felt like we’d hit the jackpot…