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A Student Loan Refinancer Now Holds the 47th Largest Deposit Base in America
Apple's Second Round of Cuts Went After the Content It Has to Keep Making
The Cinema Ad Company Just Borrowed More Than the Stock Market Says It Is Worth
Stocks Had Their Best Day Since August. The Two-Year Treasury Did Not Move.
Paramount Settles With the States Nine Days Before the Meter Starts
Three Newsrooms Lost Their White House Passes on Saturday. No One Named a Story.
Fox Won August by One Measure and Lost a Fifth of Its Audience by the Other
Saudi Arabia Spends $83 Billion a Year. Its Pipeline Is Burning and It Has Not Answered.
The Catch-Up Contribution Changes Hands in 2027, Not 2026
Delaware Was Supposed to Be Losing Companies. It Registered 334,461 New Ones.
Yields Touched Five Percent and Then Fell. The Market Read the Hike as a Promise.
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AI WearablesMeta's Answer to the Camera Problem Is a Pair of Glasses With No Camera
The new glasses weigh 43 grams, cost $349 and carry no lens. What they do carry is Muse, an agent Meta says can open a browser, fill out forms and negotiate on your behalf. Removing the camera removes the one exposure that already had a warning light attached to it.
The question the glasses raise is what the person on the other side of the crossing can tell. File photograph.
The cheapest interesting thing Meta announced on Wednesday was a pair of sunglasses that cannot take a picture.
Ray-Ban Meta Audio starts at $349, weighs 43 grams, runs up to 12 hours on a charge with a further 48 in the case, opened for pre-order at the Connect keynote in Menlo Park and ships on 13 October. It is the first pair in the Ray-Ban Meta line with no camera in it. Meta is selling it into the middle of the largest privacy argument the product has generated in three years on sale: a final report from Hamburg's data protection regulator on 10 September finding that the recording light on the camera models is, in ordinary daylight, not visible; and a proposed class action in northern California, amended late last month, in which more than 70 people allege the glasses captured them undressing, bathing and having sex, and that the recordings were routed to contract workers overseas for labelling.
Taking the camera out answers all of that. It also removes the only component on the device that Meta has ever attached a warning light to.
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Why Did the Senate Vote Twice on the Same Bill in Three Days?
Both are majorities and only one is a consensus.
The Money
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You Cannot Delegate the Thing You Have Never Done
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Ten Streaming Services Disappeared Last Quarter. None of Them Took an Audience With It.
The count of standalone American streaming services has fallen by about 30 in four years, or 8 per cent.
Oura's Listing Raises $532 Million for the Company. It Keeps About $6 Million.
Seventy-three per cent of the shares on offer belong to existing holders, and every share in the overallotment does too.
Google Knew for Seven Weeks. Its Customers Found Out From a Newspaper.
The model did not go rogue.
Xbox Is Three Quarters of the Way Through Its Reset. Halo Changed Hands on the Way.
The cuts are small next to the 3,200 roles Xbox said in July it would remove.
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The Labs Asked for Rules. The President Says the Guardrail Is Him.
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Kosovo's Former President Was Convicted by a Court Kosovo Agreed to Create
The Long View
The Board Voted to Close the Kennedy Center Hours After a Judge Refused to Let It Carry Trump's Name
The Numbers
A Comedy Nobody Had Heard of Last Year Won Six Emmys, Including the One That Counts
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Pennsylvania Has 693 Measles Cases, 133 Hospitalisations and a Third Death Under Review
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The Drones Hit a Warsaw-Bound Train Minutes After the Diplomats Passed Through
A strike on a rail line to a NATO capital, timed close to a visiting delegation, is not the same kind of event as a strike on a Ukrainian city, and every government involved knows the difference.
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Everything we have published, newest firstThe Doors Closed at Half Past Four, and Two Thousand Performances a Year Closed With Them
The Kennedy Center shut its main building to the public at about 4.30 on Tuesday afternoon, hours after its board voted to close it for two years. Guards stood at the doors. Staff were seen hugging through the glass. The Honors and the Mark Twain Prize move elsewhere, the REACH stays open, and everything that filled the building for the rest of the year does not.
The EU Cannot Admit Canada, So It Has Invented a Category Instead
In her State of the European Union address in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula von der Leyen invited Canada to become the EU's first associate member. The treaties make full membership impossible, because Canada is not a European state. What she is offering is a new category, to be negotiated, with a summit in Montreal next month.
National News
Why Did the Senate Vote Twice on the Same Bill in Three Days?
The Senate spent Thursday on two different kinds of majority. A bill rewriting college athletics cleared its procedural hurdle 77 to 22, two days after a 74 to 24 cloture vote on the same motion. A district judgeship cleared cloture 49 to 47 an hour later.
The Hormuz Closure
Five Percent. The Monday the Price of Money, Energy and the Future Moved Together.
On Monday the 10-year Treasury yield touched 5 percent for the first time since 2023. Brent neared $110 before settling back. Diesel set a record at $6.23 a gallon. Chip stocks fell almost 6 percent. By the close, markets put the odds of a Federal Reserve rate increase on Wednesday above 90 percent. Each of those has its own story. Together they describe one: the end of the assumption that the shocks of this year would pass on their own.
Iran's Nuclear Chief Was Kept Out of the Room Where Its Inspections Are Argued
Austria revoked the visa of Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, before the IAEA's General Conference opened in Vienna on Monday. The United States objected to a UN sanctions waiver for his travel, and under the committee's rules one objection was enough. Iran says the host country broke its obligations. The conference it cannot attend is the one that debates its nuclear programme.
The Former Rebels Are Losing Bangsamoro's First Election to Other Former Rebels
Monday's question was whether the former rebels would win a mandate. The count answers a different one: the movement split before the vote, and the voters are choosing between its factions.
The Numbers
The Kennedy Center Says It Cannot Make Payroll, and Its Board Has Named One Way Out
The Kennedy Center's board has told a federal court the institution cannot meet payroll or routine maintenance "within a matter of weeks" and could close as soon as Tuesday. A 57-page internal report projects $124 million of a budgeted $220 million in revenue. Internal documents describe restoring President Trump's name to the building, the subject of a lawsuit, as the only way to avoid bankruptcy.
The conflict that produced the region cost an estimated 150,000 lives.
The Numbers
Sweden Voted on Whether the Far Right Should Govern, and the Far Right Went Backwards
Sweden's centre-left opposition leads the preliminary count by 176 seats to 173, with postal and overseas votes still to come. The Social Democrats are the largest party on 28.1 percent. The Sweden Democrats, whom the prime minister had proposed bringing into government, fell to 17.6 percent, the first decline in their history.
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Kansas's In-State Tuition Law Was Struck Down in a Case Neither Side Wanted to Win
Staying to Keep the Oil and Ending the War Soon Are Two Different Plans
Saudi Arabia's Way Around Hormuz Is Shut, and Its Way Out of the Red Sea Is Held by the Houthis
The Market Read the Essay as a Forecast for Chip Demand
Three First Ministers Signed a Declaration of Self-Determination. None of Them Can Call a Vote.
The leaders of the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin, who are now the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, signed a joint declaration in Cardiff on Monday asserting their nations' right to self-determination. The UK prime minister has already ruled out referendums in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The power to hold one sits with Westminster in every case.
A Month Ago a Fed Hike Was a Coin Toss. The Market Now Treats It as Settled.
A rate increase reaches a credit card balance within a billing cycle and a mortgage only through the bond market, if at all. The same decision is felt as a bill in one household and not at all in the next.
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The Hormuz Closure21 stories
- 22 Sept Stocks Had Their Best Day Since August. The Two-Year Treasury Did Not Move.
- 19 Sept Saudi Arabia Spends $83 Billion a Year. Its Pipeline Is Burning and It Has Not Answered.
- 17 Sept Yields Touched Five Percent and Then Fell. The Market Read the Hike as a Promise.
- 16 Sept Twelve to Nothing. The Fed Raised Rates Into an Oil Shock It Says It Cannot Fix.
- 16 Sept The House Voted a Third Time to End the Iran War, and Is Still About Seventy Votes Short
- 15 Sept Five Percent. The Monday the Price of Money, Energy and the Future Moved Together.
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