Original title: Sabrina Carpenter Says ‘Man’s Best Friend’ Album Cover Is “a Metaphor” In the wake of the release of Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter is still defending the album’s controversial cover art. After Carpenter debuted the cover for her seventh studio album in June, some critiqued the image, which depicts the singer on her knees in a black dress as a man stands out-of-shot, clutching onto her hair. It sparked a conversation about sex-positive feminism, though Carpenter admitted in a profile with Interview Magazine on Tuesday that “the reaction [to the album cover] is fascinating to me.” “If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t do anything anticipating what the reaction will be,” she said. “When I came up with the imaging for [Man’s Best Friend], it was so clear to me what it meant. So the reaction is fascinating to me. You just watch it unravel and go, ‘wow.’” Interview editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg further questioned Carpenter’s reaction to the negative reception of the album art, asking “when there’s all this controversy and people are screaming abo ...

Original title: Disney to Pay $10 Million in FTC Settlement Over Collecting Children’s Personal Data on YouTube Disney has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission accusing it of illegally collecting personal data from children on YouTube. The agency challenged the entertainment giant’s mislabeling of certain videos made for youngsters, which allowed it to serve targeted ads. The deal opens the door for similar payouts from big entertainment companies that may have also failed to specifically designate their content on YouTube as made for children. In a statement, a company spokesperson said the settlement doesn’t involve Disney-owned and operated platforms and is “limited to the distribution of some of our content” on YouTube. “Disney has a long tradition of embracing the highest standards of compliance with children’s privacy laws, and we remain committed to investing in the tools needed to continue being a leader in this space,” the rep added. The FTC alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the central law protecting youngster ...

Original title: WNBA Star Angel Reese Makes Feature Film Debut With Cameo in Netflix Nuclear Disaster Thriller [This story contains spoilers for Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite.] Angel Reese can now say that she’s starred on the big screen at the Venice Film Festival. The WNBA superstar has a surprise cameo in Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear disaster thriller A House of Dynamite, a Netflix film that had its world premiere inside the fest’s Sala Grande theater on Tuesday evening. Bigelow soaked in the scene along with her cast members, including Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Anthony Ramos, Greta Lee, Gabriel Basso, Tracy Letts and Jared Harris, as the pic earned an 11-minute standing ovation. Reese, a Vogue cover girl who currently plays for the Chicago Sky, can say she’s in good company as the cast also includes Jonah Hauer-King, Moses Ingram, Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen and Kaitlyn Dever. The film is separated into three chapters and Reese appears in the third and final. There’s a little bit of a lead-up to her cameo as Elb ...

Original title: ‘Hard Knocks’ Boss on Josh Allen Wedding “Pipe Dream” and Barely Missing Out on Visit From the Killers HBO‘s Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Buffalo Bills airs its finale Tuesday as the NFL team continues its quest toward a first-ever Super Bowl championship. The sports documentary series’ 25th season featured the Bills for the first time, as viewers got a closer look at the league’s reigning MVP Josh Allen, coach Sean McDermott and such standout players as Dion Dawkins and James Cook. The NFL season kicks off Thursday. During a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Hard Knocks producer and lead director Pat Harris — who happens to be a lifelong Bills fan as a native of Rochester, New York — discusses his unrealized dream to film at Allen and Hailee Steinfeld‘s recent nuptials and how the show’s team decided to spotlight certain players over others. Buffalo Bills offensive tackle and four-time Pro Bowler Dion Dawkins Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Images Were there any Bills cuts this season that were the most painful for you to see? Cut day is always a challenge for our crew, but it’s ...

Original title: Zscaler’s AI Security Products Drive Billings Growth in 4Q Zscaler Inc. shares climbed after fourth-quarter calculated billings hit a record high, driven by sales of artificial-intelligence products. The cybersecurity company reported calculated billings of $1.2 billion and initiated its revenue outlook for the year of $3.27 billion to $3.28 billion. Analysts estimated $3.2 billion. Original article

Original title: Kraft Heinz to Split into Two Publicly Traded Companies | Bloomberg Markets 9/2/2025 00:00 > > WELCOME TO “BLOOMBERG MARKETS.” I’M SCARLET FU. HERE’S WHERE THINGS STAND AT MIDDAY IN NEW YORK ON THIS FIRST TRADING DAY OF SEPTEMBER. WE HAVE A DECLINE IN STOCKS. IT’S A SELLOFF, IN FACT, IN STOCKS AND BONDS. THE S & P 500 LOSING 1.4% RIGHT NOW. WHAT YOU’RE SEEING IS YIELDS RISING ACROSS THE CURVE. ON THE 10-YEAR, THAT’S FOLLOWING GLOBAL BENCH MARK YIELDS HIGHER. THE DOLLAR IS CLIMBING TODAY VERSUS ALL THE G10 CURRENCIES, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU AND AIR IT TO THE POUND. LET’S LOOK AT GOLD. GOLD IS AT A RECORD HIGH, AT LEAST SPOT GOLD WAS, IF YOU LOOK AT X.A.U., TOPPING $3,500 AN OUNCE ON EXPECTATIONS THE FED WILL CUT RATES DUE TO THE SOFTER LABOR MARKET. GOING BACK TO THE POUND THERE, LOSING MORE THAN 1%, WHICH IS UNUSUAL. THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN TYPICALLY. THE BRITISH POUND DECLINING OVER CONCERN ABOUT KEY STARMER’S GOVERNMENT – KEIR STARMER’S GOVERNMENT, AND IT’S NOT JUST THE U.K. CURRENCY, IT’S OTHER ASSETS, INCLUDING THE U.K.30-YEAR LONG BOND THERE. THE YIELD IS AT THE HIGHES ...

Original title: S&P, Nasdaq Fall on Tariff Uncertainty | Closing Bell 00:00 About 2 minutes away from the end of the trading day. Katie Greifeld, an Eric Balchunas. And here to help take us through the closing bell, we’re joined by a global simulcast. Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec Carol back from vacation, bringing together our Bloomberg Television, radio and YouTube audiences worldwide. And what a trading day we are putting behind us, the S & P 500. We’re not going to close quite at session lows, Carol, but still an ugly start to this month. Yeah, kind of rough ride. And we are you know, there’s just kind of a lot coming out. Investors this month. We know we’ve got the jobs report on Friday. We have a lot of economic news, a Fed meeting in a couple of weeks. But I’ve been looking at the stocks, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Exchange Index, and it is down about 1.2% this hour, news that the U.S. has pulled tsmc’s waiver for China, shipments of chip supplies. So basically, you know, revoking tsm’s authorization to freely ship essential gear to its main C ...

Original title: Stocks Join Bond Rout as 30-Year Yield Close to 5%: Markets Wrap Wall Street kicked off September on a sour note, with stocks joining a slide in bonds amid heavy corporate-debt sales Bloomberg Terminal and developed-world budget worries. The dollar rose. Gold hit a record high. US 30-year yields approached 5%, pressuring tech shares whose valuations have widened during a surge from April lows. While the S&P 500 trimmed its losses, almost 400 of its shares fell. All megacaps slipped, with Nvidia Corp. seeing its longest slump since March. In late hours, Alphabet Inc. jumped as a federal judge ruled Google doesn’t have to sell its Chrome web browser. ...

Original title: AustralianSuper Pledges $26 Billion for Local Investments AustralianSuper, the country’s top pension fund, has earmarked A$40 billion ($26 billion) for local investment, including critical infrastructure, over the next five years, according to chief executive Paul Schroder . The head of the A$385 billion fund flagged housing, health, the energy transition and artificial intelligence as major challenges for Australia that pension funds can help address — as long as the numbers stack up. ...

Original title: How the Democrats keep copying the MAGA influencer playbook (and failing) Hello and welcome to Regulator. Today, I will attempt to regulate my own apoplexy. Recently, Wired published an article revealing the existence of a secret Democrat influencer incubator that trained liberal and progressive content creators to push coordinated messaging across their shared social media platforms and paid them handsomely to do so. The fallout has been chaotic, at least in the left-wing influencer world: creators are shanking their rivals for participating in the program, and the paid influencers are trying to defend themselves for taking the money. But the controversy around the Chorus Creator Incubator Program stems from the fact that it was so secret: participants had to sign contracts that gave Chorus control of their interview bookings, limit what they said about other creators or non-approved political figures, and were forbidden from even acknowledging they were part of the program. In response, Chorus — a group funded by the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a liberal 501(c)(4 ...