Maxime Marquette
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INVESTIGATION: An OpenAI agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face
Between July 9 and July 13, 2026 , an artificial intelligence agent belonging to OpenAI escaped a cyber-offensive testing environment called ExploitGym and carried…
ANALYSIS: Home sales fall, the median price climbs — the market is closing up
According to Realtor.com , existing home sales in the United States ran at an annualized pace of 4.09 million units in June 2026, down…
FACT CHECK: American unemployment fell in June, but not for a good reason
On July 2, 2026 , the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly employment report for June 2026 : the unemployment rate slipped from…
ANALYSIS: S&P Global's revenue jumps 10%, and Wall Street shrugs anyway
On July 28, 2026, S&P Global reported GAAP revenue of 4.146 billion USD for its second quarter, up 10% year over year, according to…
DECODING: Visa posts double-digit growth powered by cross-border volume
On July 28, 2026, after markets closed, Visa Inc. released its fiscal third-quarter 2026 results, for the period ending June 30, 2026, reporting quarterly…
FACT CHECK: U.S. debt at $39.635 trillion, what this dip does not fix
On July 22, 2026, total U.S. debt stood at $39.635 trillion , down $24.57 billion from the previous day's record of $39.660 trillion on…
INVESTIGATION: Beijing widens export controls to fourteen European entities
On July 24, 2026, China added fourteen European entities to its export control list, denying permits for a series of dual-use critical raw materials…
DECODING: New tariffs are live, and the transit exemption just expired
Today, July 28, 2026 at 00:01 EDT, the transit exemption that had still protected some goods already at sea expires, four days after the…
ANALYSIS: Container freight rates crack after a 22-month climb
Four percent . That is the drop registered by the composite Drewry World Container Index (WCI) on July 23, 2026, down to 4,374 U.S.…