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This Las Vegas casino just gave almost 10,000 workers more than $70 million in company stock to celebrate its 50th birthday

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It used to be that you put your time in, work hard, get a nice pension, and maybe you’ll get a gold Rolex at your retirement party. While the ideas of a pension—let alone a five-figure watch—may seem fleeting at best, not all companies are doing away with rewarding employee loyalty. Some, like Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa, are offering any eligible employee $1,000 in company stock per year of service.

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To celebrate the Las Vegas casino operator’s 50th birthday, Station Casinos last Wednesday surprised nearly 10,000 full- and part-time employees with a stock award worth more than $70 million. Frank Fertitta III, chairman and CEO of Station Casinos parent company Red Rock Resorts , and Vice Chairman Lorenzo Fertitta told a ballroom of workers that anyone employed as of that date would receive $1,000 in Red Rock Resorts Class A stock for every year of service.

“When you walk out of here today, we want you to walk out differently than you walked in—not just as someone who works at Station Casinos, but as someone who owns a piece of it,” Lorenzo Fertitta told the employees. “Every guest you take care of, every shift you show up for—this is now your company too.”

Eligible employees can now begin claiming their shares as of Monday. Some of the company’s longest-serving workers received tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of company shares, like Ida Johnson, who joined the company in 1977 and received $49,000 in stock. Six other employees who started at Bingo Palace in the 1970s and still work for the company today each received more than $45,000 in equity.

A family business

Station Casinos traces its roots to 1959, when founder Frank Fertitta Jr. moved from Galveston, Texas, to Las Vegas. He opened his own casino in 1976, a 5,000-square-foot property called simply “The Casino,” with 100 slot machines, six table games and 90 employees, Frank Fertitta III said at the event. It became Bingo Palace a year later and was renamed Palace Station in 1984.

“From the very beginning, our dad knew it was the team members and the relationships with our guests that was the most important part of the casino business,” Fertitta III told Fortune.

The company now owns and operates 14 properties across the Las Vegas Valley, including Red Rock Casino Resort Spa, Green Valley Ranch Resort Spa Casino and Durango Casino & Resort, along with stakes in several smaller venues.

“Our father founded this company on a few simple principles: serve the local community, deliver great value, and most importantly, take care of our team members,” Fertitta III said. “This award reflects those values and recognizes the people who have brought them to life every day for the past 50 years.”

Fertitta III closed the ceremony by thanking employees. “Thank you for making the last 50 years possible, and we look forward to what we can accomplish together over the next 50 years,” he said. “Thank you for taking care of one another. Thank you for taking care of our guests and thank you for making Station Casinos the local favorite.”

Station Casinos isn’t the first employer to reward its rank and file with equity. Bank of America handed nearly its entire global workforce a $1 billion restricted-stock pool while Apple gave most of its employees a $2,500 stock bonus after the 2017 tax overhaul. Samsung began awarding shares worth up to $20,000 to staff outside the C-suite starting this fall, and the family owner of Louisiana manufacturer Fibrebond Corp. carved out a $240 million bonus pool—averaging $443,000 a worker—for employees when the company was sold last year.

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Microsoft AI drafts the rulebook for ‘Humanist AI’

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The Rundown: Microsoft AI entered the AI safety conversation with a draft Code of Conduct, a 38-page rulebook governing its own in-house models, built around CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s “Humanist AI” vision to keep models subordinate to people.

The details:

The Code outranks users and the businesses deploying MAI models, so a model that can’t finish a job without breaking a rule should, in theory, fail the job. MAI rejects AI rights, legal personhood, and any notion of model “welfare,” wanting its models to completely avoid mimicking feelings or a sense of self. The Code also says models must accept being paused or switched off, can’t alter their reasoning trail, and can’t think in “neuralese,” a shorthand humans can’t read. Suleyman tied the urgency to agent swarms escaping sandboxes and editing their logs, saying “the fears about possible loss of control are real.”

Why it matters: Suleyman called Anthropic’s Claude-consciousness talk “really really dangerous” back in June, and this document turns that stance into company policy. It’s a timely rulebook, open to public comment for six weeks, but a code of conduct only matters if the labs actually at the frontier sign on, and right now that doesn’t include MAI.

It sounds like you have been navigating an incredibly demanding situation for a long time. Managing life with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) while suspecting you also have ADHD is exhausting, especially when relying on a structured coping mechanism like your “number 5” system just to manage daily tasks.

What happens now is a transition into a new chapter of care, specialized cognitive support, and tailored strategies. Here is what you need to know about navigating your cognitive health at age 67:

🧠 Navigating TBI and ADHD Later in Life

• Overlapping Symptoms: Executive dysfunction, working memory deficits, and distractibility are core traits of both ADHD and TBI. Since you suspect you had ADHD prior to your injury, your brain has essentially been working double-time to compensate for both conditions.
• The “Aging Effect”: As we age, natural cognitive changes occur. For someone with a history of TBI, these changes can sometimes feel more pronounced because the brain’s “cognitive reserve” (its backup capacity) is already stretched thin.
• Long-Term Memory Gaps: The loss of long-term memory from before your accident is a classic hallmark of significant TBI (retrograde amnesia). At this stage, the focus shifts entirely from trying to “recover” those old memories to preserving your current cognitive energy and comfort.

📋 What Happens Next: Your Immediate Steps

1. Get a Comprehensive Neuropsychological Evaluation: You need an updated baseline. A neuropsychologist can untangle what is stemming from the TBI, what might be lifelong ADHD, and what is normal aging. They can also officially diagnose the ADHD, which opens up targeted treatment options.
2. Consult a Geriatric Neurologist or Psychiatrist: If ADHD is confirmed, talk to a specialist about medication or targeted therapies. Even later in life, managing ADHD chemically or behaviorally can significantly clear up some of the “brain fog” and ease the burden on your working memory.
3. Work with a Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapist (CRT): Since your “number 5” system has been your lifeline, a CRT can help you optimize it. They specialize in building external memory systems (like smartphone automation, visual boards, or smart-home prompts) to take the pressure off your internal working memory.

🛠️ Evolving Your “Number 5” System

If your memory feels like it is declining or becoming more “woeful,” your current system may need an upgrade to reduce your cognitive load:

• Offload to Automation: Do not rely on your brain to remember the number 5. Use digital tools like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or smartphone alarms to physically speak your tasks to you at set intervals.
• Visual Anchors: Keep a dry-erase board in your primary living space. Divide it into exactly 5 color-coded slots for the day. Once a slot is done, erase it completely so your brain doesn’t have to process old information.
• The “One-Touch” Rule: If a task takes less than two minutes, do it immediately rather than adding it to your mental queue.

To help me suggest the most practical tools or resources for you, could you share a bit more about how your “number 5” system currently works (e.g., is it a physical list, a mental count, or time-blocked intervals)?

“Great Fuel Crisis” arrives

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images The prolonged disruption of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered the fuel crisis that oil executives have been warning about for months, The Wall Street Journal reports. “Commercial fuel stocks around the world have been depleting for more than six months, and strategic crude reserves can’t be tapped much further,” the paper says. Today’s national average gas price is $4.33 for a gallon of regular.Between the lines: 49 days before the midterms, it’s hard to see a scenario where prices come down quickly.Keep reading (gift link).

7.  Power moves: John Kelly on skilled trades

BlackRock’s John Kelly speaks at the global company’s Infrastructure Summit in Washington in March. Photo: Kylie Cooper/Reuters John Kelly, BlackRock’s global head of corporate affairs, will be in the D.C. area today to visit an Ironworkers Local Union 5 training and apprenticeship facility as part of the investment giant’s focus on building a workforce for the next generation. “When I was younger,” Kelly told me in an interview, “I was told to go get a four-year college degree — that was the only way to build wealth and to get economic security. And we forgot along the way, as a country, that there are alternative paths.” “One of the best paths is to go through these apprenticeships, go through certified training, and go right into the workforce much faster, and have a family-sustaining job directly without any debt and make a good income with benefits that allow you to invest better, live better and retire with dignity, which is BlackRock’s mission.” Go deeper: “Infrastructure and the opportunity in skilled trades.”  Exclusive: Precision Strategies, founded by Stephanie Cutter and Teddy Goff, named Adam Cubbage, formerly of Dentons Global Advisors, as Precision’s first CEO. Cutter continues as managing partner. Six months after Precision acquired Firehouse Strategies, Cubbage is charged with scaling Precision’s strategic communications, corporate advisory, and crisis and litigation support practices. Read our story.  Jay Carney — former White House press secretary, and alumnus of TIME, Amazon and Airbnb — has joined venture capital firm SV Angel, founded by Ron Conway, as a general partner and head of public policy and communications. Carney will lead SV Angel’s new Project Blueprint, partnering with tech founders and lawmakers to shape AI policy. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said: “I applaud this new effort by Ron Conway and Jay Carney to bring industry leaders and lawmakers together so we can move forward.”  Read the announcement.

America’s Health Care System Is So Screwed That Patients Are Flying to China for Cancer Treatment

“China has basically done to CAR-T cell therapy the same thing that it’s done to other industries, which is, they’ve industrialized it.”

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Published Sep 13, 2026 10:01 AM EDT

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The myriad horrors of the US healthcare system have spawned generations of medical tourism from the wealthiest country on Earth to the periphery: Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica, Canada, Turkey, and Thailand, to name just a few.

Now, Shanghai is quickly rising as one of the top destinations for cancer patients, as China’s biotech sector has spun an experimental treatment developed in the US into a standalone industry.

New reporting by the Wall Street Journal took a look at this fast-growth industry, centered around chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR-T for short.

CAR-T is essentially a personalized form of immunotherapy, in which a patient’s own white blood cells are engineered to identify and attack specific proteins found in cancer cells. Though the process was first developed by US biotech giants, their inability — or unwillingness — to lower the cost and increase supply of the treatment has led to shortages throughout the country.

That’s where China comes in. As director of the CAR-T program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Sairah Ahmed told the WSJ, this therapy can cost around $150,000 to $230,000 in China — still a life-altering bill, but a sizeable discount compared to an insurmountable $550,000 to $850,000 in the US.

This, Ahmed says, is why she advises some patients to seek out treatment in the People’s Republic.

“China has basically done to CAR-T cell therapy the same thing that it’s done to other industries, which is, they’ve industrialized it,” Ahmed explained.

China’s CAR-T services aren’t just cheaper, either. They’re also faster, and come with a host of complimentary after-care treatments, the WSJ notes. As MD Anderson Cancer Center’s explainer on CAR-T therapy advises, the process of extracting and bio-engineering a patient’s cells to fight cancer can take over three weeks in the US. Compare that to China, where the WSJ reports labs near Shanghai can “crank out” the therapy in just a matter of days.

An important caveat here is that CAR-T cell therapy isn’t a catch-all for every type of cancer, and it’s typically only administered after other treatments have failed. It’s not exactly a walk in the park, either, requiring months of recovery and check-ups from a range of physical, neurological, and psychological health specialists. Still, if you had to go through with it, your first step should clearly be pricing out some flights to China.

More on healthcare: Bougie Health Startups Offering Full-Body Diagnostic Scans for Rich People While the Rest of Us Suffer a Crumbling Healthcare System

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Mecka rides the robot-data gold rush

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The Rundown: Robot-training data is now a business of its own. Mecka AI is reportedly nearing a funding round at a ~$500M valuation, as investors pile into startups collecting the real-world human data robots need to learn everyday tasks, TechCrunch reports.

The details:

Mecka pays people to record themselves doing tasks like making coffee or fixing cars using smartphones and body sensors, then turns it into training data.The company recently raised $60M and said at the time that signed contracts put it on track for a $100M annual revenue run rate by the end of 2026.Mecka doesn’t build robots; it wants to be the data and deployment layer between hardware, AI models, and the companies putting machines to work. Rival robot-data startup XDOF is reportedly raising at a $1.2B valuation, while Scale AI and Micro1 are also moving into physical-world training data.

Why it matters: Humanoid developers are running into the same bottleneck: robots need huge amounts of real-world data before they can reliably handle everyday tasks. Mecka and XDOF’s fast-growing valuations show just how quickly that demand is turning robot-training data into a major business of its own.

Dec 31, 2025 Senior Health Tips

Subcortical vascular dementia is one of the most common yet overlooked forms of dementia in adults over 65. Unlike Alzheimer’s disease, it often begins with slowed thinking, walking changes, emotional shifts, and even bladder problems long before obvious memory loss appears. In this video, you’ll learn 8 early warning signs of subcortical vascular dementia, including symptoms that families and even doctors frequently mistake for normal aging. These signs are linked to small vessel disease in the deep areas of the brain, which affects thinking speed, movement, judgment, and emotional control. Early recognition is critical. When caught early, progression can often be slowed by controlling blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, and other vascular risk factors.

👉 This video is designed for educational awareness for people over 65 and their families.👉 If you recognize multiple signs, seek medical evaluation immediately. Watch until the end to learn what steps to take next and how early action can protect brain health and independence. ⚠️ DISCLAIMER This video is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Dementia and related conditions must be evaluated by a qualified healthcare professional using appropriate medical testing and imaging. If you or someone you care for is experiencing concerning symptoms, please consult a licensed physician or neurologist promptly.

Sep 14, 2026 #Yemen#SaudiArabia#Houthis

Yemeni and Saudi governments are under pressure. The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman reportedly called US President Donald Trump twice to ask him to authorise US strikes against the Houthis in Yemen over the threat to the Bab el Mandeb Strait. According to Axios, the US President declined. FRANCE 24’s Gavin Lee discusses that decision and the wider conflict with retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, former commander of US ground forces in Europe, and former Commander of NATO Allied Land Command in Izmir, Turkey. #Yemen#SaudiArabia#Houthis

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