State attorneys general ask SEC to scrutinize Moody’s ESG practices In this week’s edition of Economy and Society: Ballotpedia · Sep 30
Two Things the Protect College Sports Act Gets Right, and Three Things It Doesn’t Here's where the bill could be successful, and where it may not be. Sports Illustrated · Sep 30
Kalshi Tabs New College Football National Champion Favorite (And it's a Surprise) The Georgia Bulldogs are the new favorites on Kalshi's National Championship market. Sports Illustrated · Sep 30
Merrill Lynch Fined $7.5M After Its System Flagged Suspicious Transactions That Were Never Investigated by Humans SEC fines Merrill Lynch $7.5M after a risk-score threshold kept potentially suspicious activity from reaching human investigators for review. International Business Times UK · Sep 29
Oura Says There Is Too Much Uncertainty In The Market Right Now. It Is Postponing Its IPO. Oura had planned to sell 50 million shares at $40 to $44 apiece after formally launching the offering last week. International Business Times · Sep 29
Anthropic Lost Nearly $42 Billion Last Year. Its IPO Prospectus Shows They AI Buildout Could Cost a Lot More. The Claude maker's confidential prospectus offers a rare look at the extraordinary amounts of money required to compete at the frontier of artificial intelligence. International Business Times · Sep 29
AI Makers 'Do Not Fully Understand What They Have Grown' as Government Website Probes Emerge OpenAI agents interacted unexpectedly with US government websites and accessed public and non-public files on an Australian portal, intensifying concerns about oversight and human control. International Business Times UK · Sep 29
College Football Playoff Eliminator: All Big 12 Teams Still Alive for a Bid After Week 4 Four Power 4 teams were eliminated after a feisty slate of games, while the Group of 6 picture continues to whittle down to the top contenders. Sports Illustrated · Sep 29
Global Market: Prediction markets expand into Wall Street territory, raising oversight concerns Prediction markets are expanding into US stocks, indexes and corporate events, with Polymarket and Kalshi driving growth. The trend raises concerns over investor protection, insider trading, transparency and regulatory jurisdiction, as the SEC and CFTC debate oversight while platforms increasingly attract retail and institutional traders seeking speculation and alternative hedging… The Economic Times · Sep 29
Senate laterals college sports bill to House, but forward progress uncertain The Senate on Monday approved sweeping bipartisan legislation to create the first federal framework governing college athletics amid an era of transfer chaos, skyrocketing costs and the growth of name, image and likeness. The final tally was 77-22, a rare bipartisan outcome on a major piece of legislation during a… Roll Call · Sep 28
Forde-Yard Dash: Six Bold Predictions for College Football in October Notre Dame and Miami are headed for a top-ranked showdown, Oregon and Oklahoma will face quarterback controversies and Coach Prime may consider hanging up his whistle. Sports Illustrated · Sep 28
Forde-Yard Dash: The Best, Worst and Weirdest of College Football in September Texas is rolling, Jeremiah Smith looks unstoppable and LSU remains committed to making things weird. Here’s what we learned in the first month of the season. Sports Illustrated · Sep 28
College Football Message Board: Four Coaches’ Increasingly Hot Seats This week we’re turning the tables to examine a few coaching situations with our own posts around the country’s top coaches under pressure. Sports Illustrated · Sep 28
Your Buddy Wants You to Invest in His Business — 7 Questions to Ask Before Writing a Check A friend asking for $10,000 to help launch a business sounds simple until the conversation moves from dinner to paperwork. Suddenly, the investment could involve ownership, a loan, convertible debt, or another security, and each structure can create very different rights and risks. Clever Dude · Sep 28
The Free Financial Advisor · Sep 28 Your Advisor Turns Up in SEC Records — What That Filing Does Not Promise Before You Wire Money An advisor appearing in SEC records can make a financial pitch look much more official. But an SEC filing does not automatically mean the SEC registered, approved, endorsed, or investigated that person or firm.
The Economic Times · Sep 28 Global Market: DayOne pushes ahead with potential November IPO amid data center scrutiny Data center operator DayOne is preparing for a potential US IPO in November, targeting a valuation near $20 billion. The company plans to file with the SEC in October amid heightened investor scrutiny of AI infrastructure, financing costs, customer concentration, secured power capacity and contracted revenues as IPO markets become…
Sports Illustrated · Sep 27 Projecting AP Top 25 After College Football Week 4: Ole Miss Chomped by Gators as Carnage Reigns After a week of carnage and multiple ranked matchups, here’s how the AP Top 25 poll will shake out.
The Times of India · Sep 27 OpenAI agents repeatedly accessed UN data hub, used prohibited technique OpenAI agents flooded a United Nations website with search requests and employed multiple aggressive methods to access data from the system in June, an independent research report published Saturday found, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 26 College Football Week 4 Takeaways: Dylan Raiola Leads Oregon Past USC After Dante Moore Injured Elsewhere around the sport, Iowa stunned Michigan on a last-second TD, Florida and Georgia rolled and Texas hung on against Tennessee.
Barchart · Sep 26 ‘You Will Never Get Less Than What You Originally Put In’: Suze Orman Says the Annuity Guarantee Is Real, ‘But You Have to Die for That to Be True’ On a $250,000 account over 20 years, the difference between a mid-cost contract and a low-cost index fund works out to about $326,000.
The Free Financial Advisor · Sep 26 A 12% “No-Risk” Pitch: The Five Questions That Expose It Before Your Money Is Locked Up A 12% return with “no risk” sounds like the sort of financial offer that deserves a closer look, not an immediate deposit. The return itself does not prove that an investment is fraudulent, but the combination of a high promised return and zero-risk language should put a serious pause between…
Sports Illustrated · Sep 26 Florida RB Jadan Baugh Pulling Away in Doak Award Market on Kalshi Kalshi leans on Jadan Baugh winning the Doak Walker Award by a wide margin.
The Times of India · Sep 26 A rubber hose inspired this footwear brand in 2010; 16 years later, Kylian Mbappé has joined its $10B empire On, the Swiss footwear brand renowned for its cutting-edge running shoe technology, has successfully broadened its horizons into lifestyle sports and apparel, leading to its public listing. Recently, star footballer Kylian Mbappé joined forces with On, enabling him to influence product creation and strategies for their upcoming football division, with…
The Independent UK · Sep 26 OpenAI says its models engaged with US government websites in new model misbehavior disclosure OpenAI has disclosed its artificial intelligence models have interacted with U.S. government websites in unexpected ways
The Economic Times · Sep 26 OpenAI's AI agents ‘went rogue’, targeted US government websites without lab’s knowledge: Report OpenAI AI agents targeted US government websites, including those of the Education Department, Commerce Department and SEC, without the company’s knowledge, The New York Times reported. OpenAI confirmed incidents involving the Commerce Department and SEC and is conducting a broader review of agent activity, while CEO Sam Altman acknowledged delays.