Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and family led a group that has agreed to acquire the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen for a reported $9.6 billion.
Why it matters: Sports franchise valuations continue to have no ceiling.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is delivering a masterclass in global monoculture, stacking blockbuster ratings, on-field theatrics and a superstar race for soccer immortality.
Why it matters: Skeptics spent months bracing for the World Cup to collide with a polarized, parochial and priced-out American public. The tournament has answered back with the largest U.S. viewing audiences in soccer history.
Last week OpenAI handed users a new app, plus a jumble of new model names, reasoning levels and subscription tiers — and left them to figure out which combination fits their work and budget.
Why it matters: Evolving AI tools can now help non-coders deliver more work better, faster and cheaper — if those workers can determine the "just right" settings for their use case.
American political leaders on the left and right are rebelling against the market-first consensus that dominated Washington for four decades.
Why it matters: The result is one of the biggest shifts in U.S. economic policy since the Reagan revolution, overturning decades of orthodoxy on trade, manufacturing, housing, health care and corporate power.
