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Media Accuses Hegseth Of Covering Up USS Lincoln Supply Crisis The scandal and controversy over the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier continues, despite the Trump administration and top military brass reiterating this week that the issues have been hugely overblown. It's long been reported that the supercarrier which is front line in the war against Iran has suffered resupply problems, low morale, sub-standard conditions, and mental health problems given the over-extended deployment. One prominent media outlet is now alleging that the crisis is largely due to War Secretary Pete Hegseth having "hid"...

OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Luna Price By 80% As China's Cheaper Models Close In OpenAI just cut the price of its cheapest GPT-5.6 model by 80 percent, three weeks after launch - the clearest signal yet that the company that kicked off the generative AI boom is being dragged into a price war it did not start. On Thursday the company said GPT-5.6 Luna, its speed-focused model, now costs 20 cents per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, down from $1 and $6. GPT-5.6 Terra, the mid-tier model, gets...

September Market Weakness: The Setup Has Teeth Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Setup Has Teeth Earlier this week, in our Daily Market Commentary, I flagged that the market was testing support after three straight down days, starting in September, with the calendar. That was just the warm-up, as the real story lies in a note from Scott Rubner at Citadel Securities, whose read on September market weakness is among the best that I have read. Rubner’s case is not that the bull market has ended. It is that the near-term math just...