If you manage Google Ads campaigns and haven’t touched your Search settings recently, it’s worth pausing to check them — because in a matter of days, Google is going to make some of those decisions for you. Starting September 1, 2026, Search campaigns still running on legacy settings will automatically upgrade to AI Max, Google’s
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For most of the past decade, the housing market script was simple: the Sun Belt wins, the Rust Belt loses. Florida and Texas absorbed waves of relocating buyers, no state income tax made headlines, and Midwest metros quietly got left out of the conversation. In 2026, that script has flipped in a way even seasoned
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America’s wealthy have always moved with the tax code and the weather. But 2026 is shaping up to be a genuinely bigger chapter in that story — not just another wave of Californians heading to Florida, but a two-track migration that’s increasingly pulling wealthy Americans out of the country entirely. The data behind both trends
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Nvidia has agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion to help OpenAI secure one of the largest AI data center campuses ever planned, according to a securities filing disclosed Monday, August 17. The deal, centered on a sprawling site in rural Ohio, marks the chipmaker’s largest infrastructure financing commitment to date — and reignites long-simmering
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Day 1 — Toy Trains, Tea Gardens, and the Town Itself I timed my arrival deliberately — by the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, the UNESCO-listed toy train that has been chugging up these slopes since long before “heritage tourism” was a phrase anyone used.The train winds through eucalyptus groves and tea-scented slopes, its blue-and-cream carriages rattling
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The United States has crossed a fiscal threshold few wanted to see: the national debt has officially surpassed $40 trillion, according to Treasury Department data released this week. Treasury figures show total public debt outstanding stood at $40.047 trillion as of August 18, arriving months earlier than forecasters had previously expected, driven in part by
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Somewhere in most marketing dashboards right now, there’s a report telling a very confident story: search drove most of last quarter’s revenue, email closed the rest, and paid social barely moved the needle. It sounds precise. It’s also increasingly unreliable — built on a tracking infrastructure that’s been quietly crumbling for years. That’s why marketing
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The U.S. housing market delivered a genuinely strange headline this summer: home prices hit an all-time high at the exact moment mortgage rates climbed toward their highest level in over a year. The median existing-home price reached $440,600 in June 2026, according to the National Association of Realtors — marking the 36th consecutive month of
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There’s a particular kind of magic in falling asleep in one city and waking up in another — no security lines, no boarding groups, no cramped middle seat. For most of the 21st century, that experience was fading into obsolescence, edged out by budget airlines that made speed and price the only metrics that mattered.
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Anthropic has confirmed what Reuters first reported as speculation earlier this year: the AI lab behind Claude is building an in-house silicon team to design its own custom AI chips. The move puts Anthropic alongside Google, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI in a growing race among major AI developers to control more of their own hardware
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