Trump Floats $5,000 "Stimmy" Checks For Every US Adult Citizen If GOP Holds Congress

India Caps Fuel Sales To Avoid Shortages Submitted by Irina Slav of OilPrice.com India has imposed limits on gasoline and diesel sales at retail fuel stations to avoid supply crunches, with commercial consumers banned from buying any fuel from retail stations, Bloomberg reported, noting there will be daily limits on diesel sales. The diesel cap was set at 200 litres per vehicle or customer, with resale of the fuel forbidden, Reuters noted in a report on the news. Commercial users, meanwhile, will have to get their fuels from bulk sellers after their...

Haircut No. 2: Anthropic IPO Talk Slides To $1.2 Trillion As AI Rout Crushes Odds Of A November Listing Keeps going lower.Three weeks ago we reported that Anthropic IPO investors had marked the valuation from $2 trillion down to $1.5 trillion as the growth slowdown sank in. This morning, Bloomberg reports that the price tag has been cut again: after Thursday's AI bloodbath, some potential backers are now discussing a value as low as $1.2 trillion for the company, a person familiar told the news agency (deliberations are "ongoing," no...

CIA Document Sparks Wild Theories Of Ancient Knowledge Hidden Under Egypt's Sphinx Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A declassified CIA document that references a “Temple under Sphinx” in a 76 year old photographic inventory, has reignited interest in a mythical Hall of Records said to lie beneath Egypt’s Great Sphinx. The document in question is a CIA inventory cataloging black-and-white photo negatives from July 1950. Among routine entries such as “Sphinx,” “Tourist at Pyramids,” and “Ruins near Sphinx” appears the line: “Temple under Sphinx; July ’50.” This phrasing has prompted renewed discussion about possible hidden structures...