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- How An Options Trade Underpins GameStop’s EBay Takeover Bid
GameStop’s activist bid for eBay pairs a takeover with an options trade that could work whether or not the deal goes through.
- Game 7 Defeat Most Perplexing In Tampa Bay Lightning’s Playoff Home-Ice Woes
The Tampa Bay Lightning have lost 13 of their past 15 postseason matches on home ice. It is a run that dates to the 2022 Cup final against the Colorado Avalanche.
- The dark side of the American work ethic: widespread sleep deprivation, linked to obesity, depression, even early death
“Rise and grind” culture is a public health nightmare that could be costing the U.S. more than $400 billion a year.
- U.S. Downs 7 Small Boats In Strait Of Hormuz, Trump Says—Ceasefire In Doubt
Iran fired missiles and drones at vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, and the U.S. sunk seven small Iranian boats in the waterway, U.S. officials said.
- Met Gala's Big-Name Critics: Here's Who’s Skipping Or Speaking Out About Bezos-Backed Event
Bella Hadid liked a video on Instagram calling out celebrities who plan to attend the Met Gala this year and wear “ICE OUT” protest pins, noting event sponsor Jeff Bezos’ ties to the Trump administration.
Technology
- GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it
Amid falling revenue and store closures, GameStop wants to buy the much larger eBay.
- F1 in Miami: That's what it looks like when an upgrade works
2026's Formula 1 championship now looks far from a foregone thing.
- AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.
Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon.
- Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial: What it was like in the room
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions he spent to…
- Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial
OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started.
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