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HBO’s hit financial thriller “Industry” has delivered one of its most compelling storylines yet this season: a hunt to expose a fraudulent fintech company called Tender. The show follows Harper Stern, who’s leading her newly launched investment firm and looking for a company to short — essentially, betting that its stock will crash. After a journalist tips her off that something’s wrong with Tender, she sends her associates, Sweetpea and Kwabena, to Ghana to investigate. What they discover is damning. “Fake users drive fake revenue drives fake cash,” Sweetpea tells Harper. The entire company appears to be built on fabricated…

At the beginning of this week, the WNBA and WNBA Players Association had an in-person meeting to discuss the new collective bargaining agreement. It was the first in-person meeting between the two sides in months.Per reporting by ESPN and Front Office Sports, about 40 players and more than a half dozen team owners and executives were present at the meeting. On Friday, CBS Sports spoke exclusively to one of the players who attended the meeting via Zoom: Elizabeth Williams, the secretary of the WNBPA.Williams is currently in Europe, where she is playing for Galatasaray of the Turkish Women’s Basketball Super…

Lawmakers in at least five other states—Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Virginia—have also introduced bills this year that would impose various forms of temporary pauses on data center development. While Georgia, Vermont, and Virginia’s efforts are being led by Democrats, Oklahoma and Maryland’s bills were largely sponsored by Republicans. These bills mirror several moratoriums that have already passed locally: At the end of December, at least 14 states had towns or counties that have paused data center permitting and construction, Tech Policy Press reported.There are some signs that the data center industry is beginning to respond to the backlash. Last…

Waymo vehicles have reportedly racked up more than 200 million miles of autonomous driving on public roads. But it’s yet to run into a tornado or an elephant, and odds are that it’d respond poorly if it did. To try to help with those once-in-a-billion-miles scenarios, Waymo announced Friday that it is introducing Waymo World Model, a generative AI model that it will use to run near-endless situations to try to make sure its cars are prepared for the unpredictable, which also just happens to fit into the latest trend in the AI space. To be clear, Waymo’s world model…

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has become a shareholder in Kalshi, a major prediction market with a wide array of sports trading opportunities.Antetokounmpo announced the partnership Friday.”The internet is full of opinions. I decided it was time to make some of my own,” Antetokounmpo posted on social media. “Today, I’m joining Kalshi as a shareholder.”Kalshi said Antetokounmpo is the first basketball star to join the company as a shareholder. The partnership includes help with live events and marketing.Editor’s Picks2 Related”Giannis is a legend,” Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said in a release. “He’s exactly the type of long-term partner we want…

The war on California’s proposed ‘Billionaire’s Tax’ is getting weird. This week, amid ongoing rancor from tech elites over the much maligned bill, it became apparent that someone was planning a so-called “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco. A website advertising the event popped up online, providing little in the way of context other than a pithy tagline: “Vilifying billionaires is popular. Losing them is expensive.” The immediate reaction was incredulity, and most people assumed the site was some sort of bizarre hoax. “this is a joke/satire right??” one social media user wrote not long after the news circulated. Now,…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday outlined what to watch in Wall Street’s week ahead, from key labor data to big earnings reports from McDonald’s, Robinhood and others. “There’s a lot going on next week, but the most important thing, believe it or not, is the Labor Department’s nonfarm payroll report on Wednesday,” Cramer said. “If that comes in soft, it means the Fed can keep cutting rates, and that’s great news for the stock market itself.”Cramer said the recent rallies in decent stocks like PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson suggests the market believes the U.S. economy is showing…

A travel bag can be a black hole; a jumbled mess of tangled wires and loose lip balm inviting paper cuts, provocation, and panic, as your plane is boarding and your boarding pass is, you hope, at the very bottom of it all. I say this purely as a hypothetical, because I have never known this kind of chaos.At any given moment, my tote is separated into three or four purse organizers, each of a different size and style, each holding a different sort of essential that over the years has proved useful to myself and anyone traveling with me—do…

Kris Marszalek, CEO and co-founder of crypto and stock trading platform Crypto.com, has bought an expensive website. In this case it’s AI.com, valued at one point at $100 million, which will serve as the online home for his new company of the same name. The website launch is being paired with a Super Bowl ad that will air this Sunday.AI.com’s main offering is an AI agent that “operates on the user’s behalf — organizing work, sending messages, executing actions across apps, building projects, and more.” It’s a similar concept to what companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are promising with…

Across the sports landscape, the NFL always seems to be the one league immune to the ratings erosion brought on by the era of cord-cutting. With one exception.The 2026 Pro Bowl Games continued a worrying trend for the league, drawing an average of only 2.0 million viewers on ESPN in its new Tuesday timeslot, according to Sports Media Watch. That’s a 59.6% drop from last year’s record low viewership of 4.7 million.AdvertisementJust how bad are we talking here? The 2021 Pro Bowl, a tape-delayed virtual event in which some of the players faced off in “Madden NFL” due to the…