Sony is hiking the price of most PS5s by $100. The standard disk edition will go from $549.99 to $649.99.
The company is citing “pressures in the global economic landscape.”
Senator Chris Murphy and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon have introduced a bill to effectively ban private equity from owning hospitals and nursing homes.
The bill would make PE-owned facilities ineligible for Medicare funding.
Nearly 500 hospitals + nursing homes are now PE controlled.
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Walmart's CEO is bragging that Sparky, the company's in-app AI agent, is leading people to spend 35% more.
He told investors that Sparky gives them a better ability to understand their customers.
This comes as Walmart patents tech that allows for more dynamic pricing.
"And so in the quarter, what we saw is that customers who engage with Sparky, we saw an average order volume – order value I should say about 35% higher than the customers who weren't using it."
- John Furner, CEO and President of Walmart on 2/19/26 investor call
