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  • ☝️ You’re looking at the winner of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award, which shows a snow leopard in the Indian Himalayas; the pic was chosen from a pool of nearly 30,000 entries.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

  • 📱 More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers in September were no longer spending on the platform in the first weeks of January, per a report from analytics firm Pathmatics shared with CNN.
  • 🖱️ Opera, a web-browser alternative to Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc., announced “Shorten”, a new feature that will summarize articles and websites using ChatGPT.
  • 💼 Remote job postings made up 13.2% of LinkedIn listings in December, per the WSJ, down from 20.6% last March.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

  • 🍿 Magic Mike’s Last Dance topped the box office this weekend with $8.2 million in ticket sales.
  • Derek Jeter, the New York Yankees Hall of Fame shortstop, will join the MLB on Fox team as a commentator for 2023, the network announced in a pregame Super Bowl ad yesterday.
  • 🏆🏈 The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 to win Super Bowl LVII; QB Patrick Mahomes was named the game’s MVP. | Rihanna performed the halftime show. | Team Fluff won yesterday’s 2023 Puppy Bowl in a close 87-83 victory over Team Ruff.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

  • 🤖 Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is developing its own AI chatbot, joining domestic rival Baidu.
  • 🕷️🦋 All the arthropods on Earth, a category that covers all invertebrate animals with an exoskeleton (including spiders, mites, butterflies, centipedes, and more), collectively weigh as much as all humans and their farm animals combined, per a new study published in Science Advances.
  • 🚀🪐 Blue Origin was awarded its first NASA interplanetary contract on Thursday; the ESCAPADE mission aims to launch two spacecraft to Mars in late 2024 to study the planet’s magnetosphere with the help of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket (providing it’s completed on time).

EVERYTHING ELSE

  • 🙏 An anonymous Pakistani man recently walked into the Turkish embassy in the US and donated $30 million for earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria, Pakistan’s PM revealed on Saturday.
  • 🛢️ Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo declared a state of emergency Friday night after a leak was discovered in a gas pipeline that runs between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
  • 📑 The FBI searched former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home on Friday and found one additional document with classified markings, his spokesperson confirmed. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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