Peter Nowak

🎭🤖 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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🏈📺 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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🗺️ 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.

🤖 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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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.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, January 28th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🤖 Silicon Valley is buzzing over a pair of new Chinese AI models that match or exceed the performance of the most advanced systems from top US companies, despite using inferior chips and far fewer resources.

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🏡 Existing home sales in 2024 turned in their weakest year in nearly thirty years, the National Association of Realtors said Friday.

❓ Our question to you: In general, how do you feel about President Trump’s recent moves aimed at reshaping the federal workforce?

🛣️ In the little over three weeks since being rolled out, New York City’s new congestion pricing has been a Clearasil for traffic. Tl;dr: It appears to be working – for most.