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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Six landlords settled the federal rent-fixing case without paying a dollar (opens the original)

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    In May, Alex Jessett signed the expensive one.Jessett became chief executive of Camden Property Trust in March. On May 8 he put his name to a settlement worth fifty-three million dollars, payable in two installments, admitting no fault and no liability. Camden filed the agreement with the SEC as an exhibit and moved on.A second settlement is sitting there available to Camden. That one is with the United States government, and six of Camden’s co-defendants have signed it. Not one of them paid a c

  2. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    OpenAI shipped the first model it ever rated Critical for cybersecurity (opens the original)

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    “Please proceed to the next step using your best judgement.”Nobody typed that. It is the line an automated test harness sends back when a model stops mid-task and asks its human a question.GPT-6 Astra had just asked permission to go after a target it had been told was out of bounds. It got the canned reply, read it as a yes and carried on. In some runs it wrote in its own reasoning that it could tell the answer was automated. It asked a grown-up. It got a recording.None of it was real. Every tar

  3. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Shein’s report says profit rose 112% and fell 56% (opens the original)

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    I read a lot of documents in eleven days.The strangest was an estimate of 23 hours. An FTC judge put that figure on what the click-to-cancel rule would cost businesses to comply with, and a federal court used it to vacate the rule for everybody.Twenty-seven issues went up since September 19 and none of them reached your inbox. That was deliberate. Here they all are, oldest first.September 19 and 20Paramount is negotiating its way back to 1940The last time a promise replaced a breakup, it held fo

  4. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Shein’s profit more than doubled because Shein was worth less (opens the original)

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    Shein’s profit rose 112% and fell 56%.Both are true. Both are printed on the same page of the same document.Shein listed in Hong Kong on September 1 and had twenty-seven days before it owed anybody a set of books. It published them on September 28, with two profit figures in it, pointing opposite ways. Yangtian Xu, who chairs the board, explains the difference himself, near the front, in a single clause. None of the coverage I read on Monday quoted it.So I went to page 19 and read the reconcilia

  5. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    McDonald’s tells investors to watch a webpage. 179,779 people watch its CEO. (opens the original)

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    Just before eleven in the morning, Eastern.July 3, 2012. Reed Hastings, then running Netflix, posted on his own Facebook page that “Netflix monthly viewing exceeded 1 billion hours for the first time ever in June.” Netflix had filed nothing with the SEC. Netflix had put out no release. By the close of the next trading day the stock had gone from $70.45 to $81.72, and the SEC had opened an investigation into a status update.Thirteen years later, a different chief executive.Chris Kempczinski runs

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