Kyle Nowak

✈️💥 America likely experienced its worst aviation disaster in almost a quarter century on Wednesday night, when an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet above D.C.

🎭🤖 It’s awards season in Hollywood – and instead of debating over which A-lister was snubbed, one of the biggest controversies centers around how the Academy should consider AI usage.

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“Anyone who wants to achieve a dream must stay strong, focused and steady.”

–Estée Lauder (1908-2004)

❓ Our question to you: Do you agree with the Trump administration’s order to temporarily pause federal aid programs pending an across-the-board review?

🏈📺 Fox is charging a record $8+ million for nearly a dozen of its 30-second slots for the upcoming Super Bowl LIX👅, per multiple reports, up from last year’s $7 million record price.

🔥 It’s Thursday, January 30th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

☄️🧬 Samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, which were recently collected by NASA, contain a wide assortment of organic molecules – including many of the crucial building blocks of life.

🏛️ The Trump admin ordered a temporary pause in nearly all federal aid programs while it conducts an across-the-board review of potentially trillions of dollars in US government spending.

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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

–Helen Keller (1880-1968)

🗺️ Google Maps, the world’s most-used navigation app, will soon update the name of a mountain and body of water to comply with updated US federal policy.

📲 X owner Elon Musk is hearkening back to his early online-payment startup days – but with more hair and money.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, January 29th – 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.

🤖 AI infrastructure stocks fell yesterday as investors digested news that DeepSeek had developed a pair of top-performing models at a fraction of the cost compared to Silicon Valley competitors.

Coke notched a recent win against Pepsi in the Cola Wars; Costco is switching from Pepsi to Coke in its food courts beginning this summer, CEO Ron Vachris recently revealed.

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“Words are the clothing of our thoughts.”

–Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

The American Astronomical Society is calling for a global ban on “obtrusive space advertising” due to the interference it would cause for ground-based astronomy.