Wendy’s on Monday announced it will be offering a custom Minions & Monsters meal starting later this month that includes limited-time meals and exclusive collectible toys.

The fast food chain’s new promotion will spotlight Illumination’s Monsters and Minions with the limited-time offerings starting on June 15, ahead of the movie’s arrival in theaters on July 1.

It features themed meals for both children and adults, as well as an all-new Banana Frosty Swirl with a sweet banana cream sauce swirled into a Vanilla Frosty base.

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Wendy’s is offering special Minions & Monsters meals and collectibles. (Courtesy of Wendy’s / Fox News)

“The best partnerships start with an understanding of what our fans are passionate about,” said Lindsay Radkoski, U.S. chief marketing officer for The Wendy’s Company.

She added that, “By bringing together one of the world’s most beloved entertainment franchises with Wendy’s iconic, high-quality food and customers love, we’re creating shared experiences that fans will go bananas for this summer!” 

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Wendy’s Monsters & Minions adult meal will include the choice of a Big Bacon Classic or a new Spicy Chicken Sandwich, plus a small order of fries and a small Banana Frosty Swirl. It will also contain one of four Wendy’s exclusive Minions & Monsters blind box collectibles.

Both the new Frosty and the Monsters & Minions adult meal will be available starting on June 15.

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The four Minions & Monsters collectibles in the Wendy’s adult meals. (Courtesy of Wendy’s / Fox News)

The Minions & Monsters kids’ meal is available now and offers the choice of 2-piece chicken tenders, 4-piece chicken nuggets, a hamburger or a cheeseburger. 

It includes a kid’s drink and either a junior-size order of fries or apple bites and one of six exclusive Wendy’s Monsters & Minions kids’ meal toys that feature the characters James, Henry, Ed, Richard Goomi and Dort.

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Wendy’s will also feature two new Coca-Cola Freestyle beverages as part of the Minions & Monsters campaign – a Pineapple Minion MischieFizz and Goomi’s Glimey Lime.

Earlier in the year, many fund investors thought double-digit gains for 2026 were a pipe dream. Suddenly, it’s reality.

A two-month stock rally powered by chip companies has helped the average U.S.-stock mutual fund or exchange-traded fund to a total return of 11.5% so far in 2026. The funds posted a total return of 4.4% in May, adding to the previous month’s 10.3% gain and pushing them into the double-digit status, according to statistics from

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Former White House “AI czar” David Sacks warned Monday that overregulation of artificial intelligence could erode America’s lead over China in the global race for AI dominance.

“If you try to have an FDA for AI and there are some people who want to go that far, then I think we could lose this AI race to China,” he said Monday on “Kudlow.” “We’re only six to nine months ahead of China. So really, every month counts.”

His remarks come after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week establishing a voluntary framework for AI companies to share certain advanced models with the federal government before wider public release.

Sacks, a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advocated for a lighter approach to AI regulation and cautioned that adding too many guardrails risks stifling innovation at a critical point in the competition with Beijing.

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US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2026.  (Kenny HOLSTON / POOL / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

He likened Washington’s “tremendous” desire to regulate AI to that of climate change.

“AI has become the new climate change,” he argued. “It’s this imminent catastrophe that is requiring all this government intervention. But there’s very little evidence to support it.”

“We’re open to evidence – if there’s actually a problem, we should do something about it. But I don’t think we should do it in this knee-jerk way,” he continued.

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While Sacks admitted that some frontier AI models – including Anthropic’s Mythos, which he described as an “at the level of a cyber weapon” – present serious cybersecurity concerns, he also cautioned against the “moral panic” surrounding emerging technology.

“There is this panic, almost like a moral panic, around AI,” he told host Larry Kudlow. “And I’m just afraid that we might overreact and shoot ourselves in the foot and then hand this incredible technology to China.

David Sacks, White House Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Crypto czar, during The White House Digital Assets Summit in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 7, 2025. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Sacks also pushed back on concerns that AI will take jobs from average Americans, pointing to recent labor market strength from a strong May jobs report.

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“There’s been a lot of claims that AI is gonna create some sort of imminent job apocalypse, but we’re seeing the exact opposite right now,” the former AI czar argued.

“We just had this gangbuster jobs report in May, something like 172,000 new jobs, twice what all the economists were expecting, and a lot of that is because of AI.”

Sacks said a unified federal playbook for AI governance would be preferable to a patchwork, state-by-state regulations that have been guard railing the technology since its emergence.

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“What President Trump has called for is one rulebook. And I think if we can get that, if we work with Congress to work out a compromise, then that would be better than patchwork from the states,” he told FOX Business.

Trump is reportedly set to meet with executives from leading AI companies at the White House this week as the administration weighs its next steps on AI policy.

OpenAI said Monday it has taken a formal step toward a potential stock market debut, signaling that the artificial intelligence company is preparing for the possibility of becoming a publicly traded firm.

The move gives OpenAI flexibility to pursue an initial public offering in the future, though the company indicated no final decision has been made on whether or when shares would begin trading publicly.

“We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it,” OpenAI said in a statement Monday. “We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company. But it’s a complicated set of tradeoffs and this gives us the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best.”

The company added that the announcement does not constitute an offer to sell securities and that any future offering would be conducted in accordance with federal securities laws.

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., speaks during BlackRock’s 2026 Infrastructure Summit in Washington, D.C. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg / Getty Images)

A confidential S-1 filing allows companies to begin the IPO process with the Securities and Exchange Commission without immediately disclosing detailed financial information to the public. The filing is often viewed as an important milestone for companies considering a future public listing.

FOX Business previously reported that OpenAI was targeting a public offering as early as September and had been working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on a draft IPO prospectus, according to a Reuters report at the time.

The Sam Altman-led company has emerged as one of the dominant forces in artificial intelligence following the launch of ChatGPT, helping ignite a wave of investment and competition across the technology sector.

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OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken February 16, 2025.  (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic / Reuters)

OpenAI has since expanded its lineup of AI products for consumers and businesses while attracting billions of dollars in funding.

Reuters previously reported that OpenAI had been laying the groundwork for a public listing that could value the company at up to $1 trillion, underscoring the enormous investor appetite for AI-related businesses.

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The announcement comes as Wall Street closely watches the next generation of AI companies for signs they may enter public markets.

Earlier this month, rival Anthropic disclosed that it had confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, potentially setting the stage for a high-profile race between two of the industry’s biggest players.

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While OpenAI stressed that no timeline has been finalized, Monday’s disclosure signals the company is keeping its options open as it weighs the benefits of remaining private against the opportunities that come with a public listing.

FOX Business’ Eric Revell and Reuters contributed to this report.

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