Peter Nowak

🔥 It’s Friday, March 8th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🌏 Tesla halted production at its Germany plant following an arson attack; Haiti’s main gang leader threatened “civil war” if the country’s PM doesn’t resign; & more.

🗑 Part of a recent plan put forward by Mayor Justin Bibb to “modernize” the city of Cleveland involves selling advertisements that would appear on the side of… garbage trucks.

🚫📱 A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a White House-backed bill that would ban TikTok from all US devices if Chinese owner ByteDance doesn’t sell the platform.

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

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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.

🎶🎮 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.

🤖💬 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.

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

👶 Since 2010, the Provincial Maternity Hospital of Córdoba, located in Argentina, has implemented a volunteer hugger program for babies in need.

🤖⚖️ 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.