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Queen City Nerve, Charlotte's only alternative newspaper, shuts down after nearly eight years due to financial hardship and a potential sale falling through (Tony Mecia/The Charlotte Ledger)
https://www.thecharlotteledger.com/p/queen-city-nerve-calls-it-quits

Queen City Nerve calls it quits
Alternative newspaper cites failed sale and mounting financial pressures

NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3df8edae-ae3b-4f56-83a3-40602edc17a3

So, https://mastodon.social/@JenniferSmith345 is an odd bot. I don’t think it’s even a LLM behind it, the replies are just too weird.
Profile looks like it was taken from someone real…

Jennifer Bennett (@JenniferSmith345@mastodon.social)
20 Posts, 1 Following, 1 Follower · My name is Jessica, I currently live in Los Angeles, California, in the western United States. I graduated from Stanford University with dual master’s degrees in Business Administration and Clinical Psychology. I enjoy exploring the unknown, and I love cycling, yoga, golf, traveling, and reading books on finance and economics. I am currently the CEO of a publicly traded jewelry company. My favorite animal is the dog. I detest conversations with ulterior mo…

In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B services business; US App Store spend fell 6% in Q2, per Sensor Tower (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e5533f32-e4c2-4ce1-9d2e-a831e96546b4

AFR Commends Senators’ Rejection of CLARITY, the Billionaire-Backed Giveaway to the Crypto Industry
Following today’s failure to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in the Senate, Americans for Financial Reform and Demand Progress Action’s Mark Hays, Associate Director of Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology, issued the following statement:
Today all voting Democrats and several Republicans stood up for the public interest and rejected the deeply flawed crypto bill th…

NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3df8edae-ae3b-4f56-83a3-40602edc17a3

Monzo chair Gary Hoffman is leaving after some of Monzo's biggest shareholders called for his removal following the board's decision to remove TS Anil as CEO (Simon Foy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/01b0ac67-3e80-42eb-b0f6-3128f484101a

Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021
-- after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time.
Trump alleges that Capital One illegally closed his accounts for political reasons, following …

Trump accounts at Capital One were closed in 2021 over money laundering concerns
Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering. The bank disclosed this in a court filing over the weekend. Trump has sued Capital One, alleging the closures were politically motivated following the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks. Capital One seeks to dismiss the lawsuit, stating the closures followed months of analysis by its anti-money laundering team. Trump has also sued JPMorgan Chase, claiming similar political m…

Filings: the US government says it is considering joining Donald Trump's lawsuit against the BBC; the BBC says the "conflict of interest is clear and stark" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/614297a1-57ed-4439-b37a-fc9cfe52ccbc

Alpaca, which offers brokerage and financial infrastructure, raised $135M in equity and $300M in debt, following a $150M Series D in January (Bernard Goyder/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/broker-a…