Peter Nowak

📝 On Tuesday, Harvard President Claudine Gay announced her resignation amid controversy.

🌏 Israel’s Supreme Court struck down a key part of the government’s controversial judicial reform law; two bombs exploded at a memorial for former Iranian General Qassem Soleimani; and more.

🤖⚖️ In a legal complaint filed last week, the NY Times became the first major US media organization to sue both Microsoft and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement.

🔥 It’s Thursday, January 4th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

📈 The number of unauthorized migrant crossings at the US southern border has grown to record-high levels in recent days.

🥽 Production of Apple’s new Vision Pro mixed-reality headset is reportedly running at full speed in China and has been for several weeks.

🏈🏡 In Southern college towns across the country, real estate investors are buying and building homes for fans who spend thousands of dollars on a weekend of housing to attend a game.

🌏 Argentine President Javier Milei signed an emergency decree to deregulate the economy; Honda recalled 4.5 million vehicles worldwide; and an Israel/Hamas update.

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🛴 Bird, the e-scooter company that was once the fastest startup to ever reach a “unicorn” valuation (>$1 billion), filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday.

📡🐈 NASA is currently revamping its deep-space communications infrastructure.

🌏 EU countries reached a deal to limit migration; the US and Venezuela completed a prisoner exchange; & more.

🚫 Rite Aid is banned from using facial recognition technology for the next five years following a first-of-its-kind settlement with the FTC.

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🔥 It’s Thursday, December 21st – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

👥📋 Yesterday, the US Census Bureau dropped its most recent annual population report.

🏛️ The current session of Congress could use a stern reprimand from Principal Strickland in Back to the Future, because it’s shaping up to be the biggest slacker of its kind in modern history, per new data from analytics firm Quorum.

🤖💼 Elon Musk, like many other thought leaders, maintains that artificial intelligence will get humans to a point where “no job is needed.” Is he – and the others – actually right?

🌏 South Korean researchers developed an AI tool that can diagnose childhood autism with 100% accuracy; Pakistan is using artificial rain to combat smog; & more.