Kyle Nowak

🔥 It’s Thursday, March 7th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🖱📰 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

–Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

The largest financial fraud trial in Vietnam history began yesterday; Apple lost the title of China’s best-selling smartphone maker, per a new report; and more.

🗳️ Presidential nominating contests took place in over a dozen states and one US territory yesterday, marking this year’s biggest voting day outside of the general election on November 5.

🎯🛒 Target yesterday announced the launch of Target Circle 360, its new subscription-based membership program that takes direct aim at Amazon Prime and Walmart+.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, March 6th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

"Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there."

–Will Rogers (1875-1939)

🎶🎮 Over the past few years, musical artists have been increasingly signing deals to debut new songs in videogames, in some cases weeks before those tracks are released on streaming services like Apple Music or Spotify.

France became the first country to make abortion a constitutional right; the EU fined Apple ~$2 billion for limiting music-streaming competition; and more.

❓ Our question to you: What are your thoughts on the idea that artificial intelligence represents an existential threat to humanity?

🤖💬 Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup, launched a new chatbot called Claude 3 Opus that it says outperforms ChatGPT-4, Google’s Gemini, and other similar products.

⚖️🗳️ SCOTUS unanimously ruled that states can’t ban presidential candidates for rebellion or insurrection, rejecting attempts to keep former President Trump off the 2024 ballout.

🖱📰 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, March 5th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

“If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.”

–Thomas Watson (1874-1956)

🤖⚖️ On Friday, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders, alleging that the ChatGPT-maker broke its founding agreement to pursue AI research for the good of humanity instead of profit.

🌏 The US began airdropping food and supplies into Gaza; more than 1 billion people worldwide are considered obese per a new WHO study; & more.

❓ Our question to you: In your opinion, which of the following is the most likely explanation for Covid’s origin?