
Claude Fable 5 Users Report Rapid Token Consumption and Rising Bills, Data Shows
Since Claude Fable 5's June 9 launch, users have documented usage-limit windows exhausted in minutes and metered bills reaching thousands of dollars…
Aug 11, 2026

USA Times’ Data Desk compares automated headline-sentiment scores across CNN, Fox News, Forbes, Washington Post and NPR — plus how each outlet’s tone shifts across presidential administrations.

Since Claude Fable 5's June 9 launch, users have documented usage-limit windows exhausted in minutes and metered bills reaching thousands of dollars…
Aug 11, 2026

USA Times editorial: Mayor Mamdani's new click-to-cancel rule, taking effect October 1, deserves more credit than it's gotten — for the policy…
Aug 10, 2026

New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection has adopted a rule requiring businesses to let customers cancel subscriptions as easily…
Jul 25, 2026

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his administration concluded the city cannot enforce the ICC's arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, reversing a…
Jul 25, 2026

Final census: 21,904 NPR URL/headline records explicitly name the sitting U.S. president by surname across Obama’s second term, Trump’s first term, Biden’s…
Jul 17, 2026

In a draft enforcement policy statement approved 2-0 on Aug. 19, the FTC says undisclosed use of personal data to set individual…
Aug 26, 2026

"Many participants" said tightening would likely be necessary if inflation didn't decline, according to minutes of the July 28–29 FOMC meeting released…
Aug 25, 2026

The DOT's comment window closed Aug. 21 on a proposal to loosen — and possibly repeal — the 2011 Full Fare Rule…
Aug 24, 2026

Amazon put $5,001,377 behind the Five Borough Jobs Campaign — 97% of its disclosed 2026 funding — to fight a bill the…
Aug 23, 2026

Ask a room full of managers what motivates their people and you’ll usually get one confident answer: money. Ask the workers themselves…
Aug 9, 2026

USA Times filed a design-mark application on a Thursday night. By Monday, a fake USPTO “verification appointment” had arrived twice — from…
Jul 27, 2026

442 event movies, three golden-ratio tiers: 222 Events, 163 Major events, just 57 Phenomenons. The shape of box-office domination – and whether…
Sep 9, 2026

For thirty years, “video-game movie” was a punchline — shorthand for a film that would be critically savaged, commercially disappointing, and quietly…
Sep 8, 2026

O índice mestre completo do USA Times Star Index: cada filme que dominou uma semana da bilheteria dos EUA, de 2006 a…
Sep 8, 2026

Uma cópia de película de 18 km e 286 kg. Projetores que ninguém constrói há 50 anos. Apenas ~90 pessoas que conseguem…
Sep 8, 2026

Quais Blu-rays 4K e streams lhe dão a imagem IMAX expandida em casa – e a pegadinha que significa que você nunca…
Sep 8, 2026

51 das últimas 53 Geuses de bilheteria estrearam em IMAX — 96%. As únicas duas que não, Unhinged e Tom & Jerry,…
Sep 8, 2026

A step-by-step guide to building a permanent 36-inch wood-fired brick pizza oven, from the reinforced base and firebrick dome to insulation, chimney,…
Aug 9, 2026

The Odyssey is the first film shot entirely on IMAX 15/70 film, and demand for the 70mm presentation has stunned IMAX. Only…
Jul 25, 2026

The four stars in our masthead aren’t decoration. Each is 1.618× the last and trimmed by a power of the golden ratio.…
Jul 16, 2026

From a pencil sketch in September 2024 to a theorem in the masthead: spec sheets, whiteboard pentagrams, 5 a.m. research, a star…
Jul 16, 2026

America’s Secret Society: Inside the Hidden World of Competitive Softball To an outsider walking in cold, competitive amateur softball looks simple enough:…
Aug 7, 2026

New York’s trip-by-trip records show Uber and Lyft’s cut tripled since 2019 to ~23–24%. But the “50–80% take” claim? True on about…
Jul 25, 2026

Since Nov. 10, 2025, New York requires apps to state “this price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.” We…
Jul 25, 2026

A city report found the two apps buried the tip prompt — and tips cratered to $0.76 a delivery while rivals held…
Jul 25, 2026

The FTC opened a nationwide rulemaking on deceptive food- and grocery-delivery fees. USA Times spent months pricing the same food on the…
Jul 25, 2026

By Betty ParsonsNew York City’s rule requiring Uber and Lyft to shift toward electric and wheelchair-accessible vehicles is running ahead of its…
Jul 23, 2026

Read in: English · Español · Русский · 中文 · Português Here is the strangest statistic in the movie business right now:…
Jul 17, 2026

Raw ticket-sales totals already show a steep decline over the past twenty years, but they understate the real story, because the U.S.…
Sep 9, 2026

Every year, trade headlines tally the domestic box office and compare it to the year before, sometimes celebrating a “recovery” when the…
Sep 9, 2026

A movie ticket that cost $6.41 in 2005 would cost about $10.58 today if it had simply tracked general U.S. inflation —…
Sep 8, 2026

In 2005, American and Canadian moviegoers bought 1.37 billion tickets and handed theaters $8.8 billion. Twenty years later, in 2025, they bought…
Sep 8, 2026

1,089 of IMAX's commercial locations were still running 2008-era xenon digital projection as of the end of 2025 — the largest single…
Aug 9, 2026

The FTC voted 3-1 to stop defending its own nationwide non-compete ban in court — and the same Federal Register notice formally…
Aug 9, 2026

USA Times reviewed screenshots from a July 2026 Claude conversation showing a safety flag resurfacing after the assistant explicitly said it was…
Jul 26, 2026
Testing Claude's Cowork environment against OpenAI's Codex on one specific, testable question — where does an API credential live between sessions –…
Jul 25, 2026

You will never fit a true-IMAX screen in an apartment. But a good projector gets you closer to the cinema than any…
Jul 17, 2026

A delivery pizza usually costs more than the counter price once the fees stack up. Here are the home ovens that close…
Jul 17, 2026