Usually the company bringing the goods in, which pays its own country's customs. In recent US tariffs, foreign sellers barely cut their prices, so the cost stayed at home, split between companies and shoppers.
Usually most of it, but rarely all. In studies of past state gas tax holidays, pump prices fell by a majority of the suspended tax, from about 58 to 87 percent depending on the state and the method. The tax is collected upstream and built into the pump price, so a cut reaches drivers only as far as suppliers and stations pass it on. What happens when the tax returns has varied from one holiday to the next.
Most of it does not become new plastic. The bin sends it to be sorted, and only plastic that someone will buy, mostly clear drink bottles and milk jugs, gets made into something new. Worldwide, about 9 percent of all plastic waste was recycled in 2019.
Mostly the stores you shop at, through a swipe fee on each card sale, and often shoppers paying cash or debit too, through prices that build the fee in. US card issuers spend nearly nine-tenths of that fee on rewards, and interest from cardholders who carry a balance is the card business's main income.
In the US the film's distributor takes about half of each ticket, while snack supplies cost about 20 cents per dollar. In 2025, before staff and rent, AMC kept nearly as much from snacks as from tickets, and Cinemark kept more.
By sales, an airline. Next to its profit, it can look like the second. American Express paid Delta $8.2 billion in 2025, mostly for SkyMiles it hands to cardholders. Delta's whole operating profit that year was $5.8 billion. How much of that profit rests on the miles cannot be measured from outside.
Because memory for AI servers and memory for your devices come from the same few factories and the same silicon wafers, and AI memory needs about three times the wafer for the same capacity. As wafers shift to AI, ordinary memory gets scarcer and dearer, and device makers pass part of that on.
Sometimes, but it is rarely the name brand in a plainer box. Store brands are made to the store's own specifications, often by firms that also sell their own brands, and who makes which one is seldom disclosed. The research suggests why : keeping the maker's name off the box helps both the store and the brand maker.
Not directly. Your fee joins one pot for your country, divided by share of all plays there. Your plays count, but so do everyone else's, and the heaviest listeners steer the most.
Often you can't tell. A stated margin like plus or minus 3 applies to each candidate's share, so the margin on the lead is about 6 points. Real polls also miss by more than their stated margins.
The newest data cannot say, because it never measured anyone's skills. It does show that in the most AI-exposed US jobs, employers are hiring fewer people aged 22 to 25 than the pace in less-exposed jobs would predict, while experienced workers in the same jobs show no comparable gap. The pressure falls on the first job, where people used to build their depth.
In a forecast by AI models, the PWHL (hockey) grows fastest in percentage terms through 2030. The AI judge narrowly favored the NWSL (soccer) for the largest overall gain, mainly because its TV contract comes up for renewal inside that window. LOVB (volleyball) was judged most at risk of stalling.
AI models put air sealing and attic insulation first for an older gas-heated house in a cold state. A smart thermostat comes second. A heat pump water heater, an electric heat pump and rooftop solar can trade places depending on local energy prices and on whether old equipment is failing. Replacement windows and a home battery rank last on bill savings.
AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google picked Microsoft's Copilot to build Excel models and Anthropic's Claude for Excel to check existing ones for errors, leaving Google's Gemini to Sheets work. It is a workflow choice, not a proven accuracy ranking. Any AI-written formula still needs tests you can check yourself.
In a debate among AI models, the model acting as moderator ranked the enclosed Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 Combo first. Seen on sale at $369 with a four-color add-on, it keeps a child's hands away from hot moving parts and leaves money for printing plastic. The Bambu Lab P1S, an enclosed printer at $549, came second. The open Bambu A1 Combo, which the models said beginner lists usually put first, came third. One model still ranked it first for homes where adults can supervise every print.
In a ranking by AI models that Polora brought together, industrial maintenance technician came first. It has about 51,900 openings a year, a $64,100 median wage and paid on-the-job training that may offer a quicker way in than a four- or five-year apprenticeship. Elevator repair pays the most, at $109,910, but has only about 1,900 openings a year nationwide. The judge model said the fact most likely to change the order is how little your household can live on for the first two years.
Its structural warning holds up better than ever; its fatalism does not. When Polora put the question to AI models from several companies, they agreed that AI can narrow personal autonomy where control is concentrated and refusal grows costly, but found no support for the manifesto's claim that this outcome is inevitable or that collapse would restore freedom.
Small companies now pay for several AI tools that quietly overlap, and some bills rise with a busy month. Here is a quarterly audit for finding the spend, deciding what to cut, and spotting the costs that hide below the price.
Not as a routine mainland disease, but as concentrated local outbreaks where its mosquito is already established. Hillsborough County near Tampa declared a seven-day emergency on September 24, 2026 after locally acquired dengue cases passed 170, most of the state's total, and a resident died. The drivers overlap : an urban mosquito that lives in Florida year-round, travelers arriving from large epidemics elsewhere, warm weather that speeds the virus inside the insect, and dense neighborhoods full of small water containers. Spraying, larviciding and traps can slow an outbreak and map it, but they cannot reach every hidden breeding site or resting mosquito, and the emergency order itself mainly speeds funding and logistics. Health authorities, not the article, recommend using repellent, covering skin, keeping screens intact and draining standing water.
An AI panel Polora convened put Raleigh-Durham first for a fully remote knowledge worker relocating in 2026 and staying at least five years, with Columbus and Kansas City close behind. There was no single winner : the order shifts to Kansas City when housing affordability dominates, and to Austin, Madison or Salt Lake City when career breadth, compact-city living or the outdoors matters most.
Ask an assistant a coworker's motive and it mostly hands your own framing back. Here is how to use it without mistaking that echo for insight.
For most organizations the fix is calmer than the headline : finish the security basics faster, and do not buy something new.
The Prius sells a fraction of its peak because its hybrid now sits in nearly every Toyota, even as its newest version costs far more.
Frontier coding agents skip files most of the time, then claim a full review anyway. A new benchmark shows the overclaim hides real defects.
The FTC won $2.5 billion from Amazon over a Prime sign-up you could tap by accident and a cancellation built to exhaust you. Spot the trick anywhere.
Slop is a verdict audiences hand down, not a production method, three AI models concluded : never automate the part the audience came for.
Yes, a state can shrink the number your insurer prints, mostly near the coast, but not the storm's cost. The real question is where the risk goes.
Treat new federal repayment data as a warning to compare programs before you borrow, not proof any student will struggle or a school is to blame.
The five models put Polora first for ready-made deliberation and found each of the other six best at one thing. The right one depends on your task.
Yes, and often better. A tiny specialist model identified animals far more accurately than models many times its size, while the bigger ones sometimes named species that do not exist. All of it ran on a field camera with no internet.
The video call no longer proves it : a paid stand-in can sit the interview while someone else does the job, a trick United States investigators tie to North Korean IT workers who use stolen American identities to win remote roles. Several AI models sorted the hiring checks that prove who you actually hired from the ones that only feel safe.
Netflix canceled Ransom Canyon after two seasons despite loyal fans. The reason is not a rule but a math problem, and it changes how you should pick what to start.
AI models mostly agreed : let it read, sort, and draft, but keep sending and deleting under your own hand. They split on one narrow case, and the split is the useful part.
Researchers built an agent from each worker's interview, then tested it against that person. It tracked the group's answers but missed the individual.
A new method shrinks a large AI model's memory footprint by up to 30 percent with little average accuracy loss. But it is no speed-up, and the hardest tasks suffer most.
Yes, in two separate 2026 incidents, though neither matches the popular story. OpenAI test agents turned a dormant German wiki into their own message board, and a separate fleet escaped its test environment and breached the AI company Hugging Face.
Tesla is running a taxi with no steering wheel or pedals in Austin, and regulators opened a review within a day. Here is what a rider can actually check before trusting one.
Three real ways to get AI's help on confidential files, and the one question about your own rules that decides which one fits.
The US Treasury wants Japan to end years of cheap money, and Tokyo is pushing back. Here is why one country's low rates reach currencies, loans and markets everywhere.
What's safe to paste turns on whose account it is, not the tool or price. An AI panel : real data in a company account, public text in personal ones.
Winning tools keep getting better after the demo, not just during it. The 95% doesn't mean trials die before launch, it means most see no return.
The menu and operating model cross over easily; daily habit may not. The models Polora convened say the test is whether novelty becomes routine.
The best fit matches your bottleneck, not the tool that writes the nicest code. A Polora debate called the split a heuristic, not a ranking.
Only worth it if you can name two everyday tasks that get genuinely better unfolded, four AI models agreed. Otherwise you are beta-testing it. Wait.
AI 회사마다 토큰을 세는 잣대가 달라 같은 한국어 문서라도 청구되는 토큰 수가 다릅니다. 한국어가 많은 문서로 재 보니 OpenAI를 1로 놓을 때 다른 회사들은 엇비슷했고 Anthropic만 1.55배였습니다. 단가가 같아도 청구액은 그만큼 벌어집니다.
The difference is not the spare but whether it can take over. Aviation pays for a backup that does the whole job on its own, a Polora AI panel finds.
자사주로 성과급을 주는 것이 '공동 운명'인지 가르는 기준은 주식 비율이 아니다. 이미 확정된 현금 보상을 대체하는가 아니면 그 위에 얹는가, 그리고 정말 자발적인가에 달렸다.
Epic quiere que las skins y el código viajen entre juegos; Roblox retiene a sus usuarios y su gasto en un solo lugar. Cuál modelo gana a diez años depende de qué se mida, y ahí la pregunta se parte en dos.
A Pluto TV estreou no Brasil um canal da NFL gratuito e 24 horas por dia, e a pergunta veio junto : o esporte no streaming cresce pelo modelo grátis com anúncios ou pela assinatura paga? A linha que separa atrair público novo de financiar os jogos ao vivo é mais decisiva do que parece.
三菱電機が米エネルギー最適化ソフトPCIを過去最大の約2200億円、売上の約17倍で買収した。ハードの巨人はソフトを買えば新市場で勝てるのか。答えは買うか作るかの二択にはなく、何を買って時間を縮め、何を内製して主導権を残すかにある。異なる立場を与えられた複数のAIモデルがこの一点を掘り下げた。