Here's something to perk up your weekend: National Coffee Day is Sunday and savings are brewing on cups of joe.
The big picture: Coffee is considered the nation's second most popular beverage, only behind bottled water, with 63% of Americans drinking it in the past day, according to data from the National Coffee Association.
Crumbs don't stand a chance in the new Toyota Sienna.
State of play: Multiple versions of the 2025 model-year minivan come with a vacuum cleaner and a refrigerator.
Both are "integrated into the rear of the front center console," MotorTrend reports. "The so-called FridgeBox fits up to six bottled waters and features two temperature settings to either chill or freeze the contents."
The fridge stops working when the vehicle is turned off.
The intrigue: Toyota was set to add these features to the 2020 Sienna, but the company's supplier went bankrupt.
💠Nathan's thought bubble: Sadly, the Sienna doesn't come with an air freshener, which you'll need to offset the smell of spoiled food you accidentally leave in there overnight.
Swan Bitcoin is suing a group of former contractors over an alleged scheme to seize part of its business, in a suit that heavily implicates one of the most profitable and controversial companies in the industry: stablecoin issuer Tether.
Why it matters: The allegations in the suit shine a light on Tether's efforts in the venture investing space, as it attempts to diversify using its unbelievable windfall borne of its market dominance and an era of high interest rates.
Elon Musk's relationship with the Biden administration got even more complicated this week, when the White House proposed a ban on Chinese software and hardware in advanced vehicles.
The big picture: This rule could benefit Tesla Motors in the short-term by keeping Chinese EVs out of the U.S. — but also could boomerang if China responds in kind.
Scripps News is winding down its 24/7 national, over-the-air broadcast news channel, E.W. Scripps CEO Adam Symson told employees in a note Friday. The shift will result in 200 layoffs across Scripps News.
Why it matters: Symson blamed the cuts on financial challenges, noting "the prospects for the necessary revenue growth haven't materialized," since the company launched the channel.
The CEO of WeightWatchers is abruptly out of a job amid growing uncertainty about the company's future following its pivot under her leadership to embracing weight-loss drugs.
The Federal Reserve's favorite inflation gauge showed mild price increases for yet another month as incomes held steady and consumers pulled back on spending, the government said on Friday.
Why it matters: Inflation kept receding in August, confirming the trend that convinced the central bank to lower interest rates earlier this month. Other details of the report suggest a cooling — though not collapsing — economy.
OpenAI is closing in on raising $6.5 billion, the largest venture capital raise in history. But in order to do so, it looks like it will need to do the Delaware equivalent of selling its soul — it will have to overhaul its governance structure so that it's no longer controlled by a nonprofit organization.
Why it matters: At stake is OpenAI's overarching commitment "to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits humanity, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." (That's from its most recent nonprofit tax filing.)
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