Short Selling on Trial & Wordle Gets a Game Show

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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#843: Young Americans have lost optimism on their job prospects, a new Gallup poll says. Short seller Andrew Left goes on trial, accused of manipulating the stock market, but legal experts are skeptical the SEC has a strong case. Venmo is overhauling its interface to turn it into a social media app for financial activity. Savannah Guthrie will host NBC’s “Wordle” game show. Explore connectivity solutions that can transform your business at https://www.att.com/smallbusiness Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Consider this comparison.
0:03.1	PWC data found the percentage of CEOs who report revenue gains or cost reductions from
0:07.9	AI is almost equal to the percentage who say they're still stuck.
0:11.7	What separates these two groups?
0:13.3	PWC points to a clarity issue.
0:15.6	Even for CEOs, it's hard to tell what's AI hype, what's reality, and where this
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0:21.2	difference. Learn where AI can actually make an impact and what successful adoption looks like
0:26.2	at pwc.com slash us slash brew AI. That's pwc.com slash us slash brew AI.
0:35.0	Good morning brew daily show. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, why are young people so much more pessimistic about jobs than boomers? Then the New York Times is launching a wordle game show. It's Tuesday, May 12th. Let's ride.
0:56.4	Good morning and happy Tuesday.
0:59.8	Recess must be protected at all costs.
1:02.6	And that's not just me saying it because I happen to dominate it Foursquare.
1:06.2	A leading pediatrics group, the American Academy of Pediatrics,
1:09.8	issued their first new guidance on recess in 13 years,
1:11.8	urging schools to maintain unstructured time at school.
1:13.0	The group stressed that recess is critical for kids' growth, physically, emotionally, and
1:17.2	socially, but when that recess time has been declining across America to prioritize test
1:21.9	scores.
1:22.9	Toby, what was your game at recess?
1:24.3	I was a big freeze tag guy, obviously.
1:26.9	But famously, Neil, when he was on
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