Anthropic’s Claude hits No. 1 on Apple’s top free apps list

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In this illustration, the Claude AI app is seen in the app store on a phone on February 16, 2026 in New York City. According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, the Defense Department used Anthropic’s Claude Ai, via its Palantir contract, to help with the attack on Venezuela and capture former President Nicolás […]


Krispy Kreme offers free doughnuts during nationwide Verizon outage: ‘SOS got you down?’

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Never fear, doughnuts are here. Krispy Kreme cheekily announced it will be handing out the “sweet backup plan” to all customers during Verizon’s nationwide network outage on Wednesday afternoon. “SOS got you down? We can hear you now — and we’re serving up,” the popular doughnut company wrote on Instagram. Krispy Kreme is giving out […]


Starlink offers free internet in Venezuela after U.S. strikes, Maduro arrest

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SpaceX headquarters is shown in Hawthorne, California, U.S. June 5, 2025. Daniel Cole | Reuters Elon Musk’s Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to users in Venezuela through Feb. 3, following U.S. airstrikes and the capture of ousted leader Nicolás Maduro.  The satellite internet provider said in a release on Sunday that service credits […]


Free streaming service Tubi is rivaling major players for viewership

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Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Tubi hit profitability this year doing what other streaming services are trying to: attract younger audiences who are willing to sit through ads. The Fox Corp.-owned free streaming platform has long been among a sort of second tier of streaming services alongside lower-budget and less popular offerings like […]


How Google abandoned facts for ‘free expression’

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai waves as he arrives to attend the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, February 11, 2025. Benoit Tessier | Reuters Google long touted the need for factually accurate information on its platforms, but a letter submitted to Congress this week demonstrates how the tech company […]


Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library. ‹

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September 26, 2025, 2:55pm Once again, Solange Knowles is using her popularity for a good cause. Last night on Instagram, the polymath poet, culture worker, and song stylist announced a new literary project. An archive sponsored by Saint Heron, Knowles’ “multidisciplinary institution reverencing the spiritual act of creation,” will house and lend a rare collection […]


The Banned Wagon is Giving Away Banned Books for Free

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Skydance reportedly in early talks to buy Bari Weiss’ The Free Press

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Skydance CEO David Ellison has reportedly held talks with Bari Weiss to buy her online news site The Free Press — fueling growing speculation that he is wooing the right-of-center voice to join CBS News once his company’s long-stalled merger with Paramount is approved.  The discussions are in the early stages, a source close to […]


Frontier digs at Southwest with its own free bag check promotion

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Frontier Airlines on Tuesday unveiled a free bag check promotion in a dig at Southwest, exactly one week after the rival budget carrier ended its own decades-old policy. The rival budget airline announced a new promotion bundling a seat assignment, free carry-on bag and free flight changes for customers who book Tuesday through March 24 […]


Goodbye to ‘bags fly free’ on Southwest Airlines, the last freebie in America

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Passengers check in for Southwest Airlines flights at Chicago Midway International Airport on Feb. 18, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Almost nothing is guaranteed in life. Certainly not weather, electricity, health, tariffs or eggs. But for more than 50 years, American consumers could count on Southwest Airlines letting them check bags […]