• ☝️ The Sandcastle, a ~13,000-square-foot home in La Jolla, California inspired by the Palace of Versailles, is now on the market with a list price of $108 million, or ~2.5x more than the current San Diego County record; the 0.8-acre compound has 10 bedrooms across two houses, and a private beach with the same sand found at Augusta National Golf Club (home to The Masters).

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed (S&P: -0.1%; Dow: -0.02%; Nasdaq: +0.2%). | 📊 The IMF lowered its global growth forecast for next year, warns of increasing risks.
• 🚲 Peloton is partnering with Costco to sell its Bike+ for a limited time, as the fitness company looks to reach young, wealthy customers. | 🪙 Stripe is acquiring stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1 billion.
• 🚗 GM reported Q3 earnings outpacing analysts' expectations; it also raised its guidance for the year; shares rose 9.8%, their best single-day performance since 2020. | ☕ Starbucks reported preliminary Q4 results indicating slowing sales in the US and China; shares fell 3% in after-market trading.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🎙️ Joe Rogan reportedly plans to tape an interview with former President Trump on Friday; Rogan’s podcast has the largest audience of any in the US. | 🚫✈️ Meta banned dozens of Instagram and Threads accounts dedicated to tracking the private jet activity of celebrities, citing the risk of "physical harm."
• ⚽ The Messi Effect: Major League Soccer set a new attendance record this past regular season, drawing a collective ~11.5 million fans (23,234/match); league- and club-level sponsorship revenue also both reached record highs.
• 🏀 The NBA regular season officially tipped off last night. Some storylines to watch.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🥚🦖 The smallest fossilized dinosaur egg in recorded history was recently unearthed in China, per a new study; the 1.8in x 1.6in x 1.35in egg belongs to an undiscovered type of dinosaur.
• 📲 ByteDance confirmed the firing of an intern who attempted to sabotage one or more of the TikTok parent’s AI models by inserting malicious code.
• ⛰️ Women living on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau have evolved over the past 10,000 years to have physiological traits that enhance their ability to reproduce in the oxygen-scarce environment, per a new study.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🧾 The IRS unveiled new federal income and capital gains tax brackets for 2025.
• 🍔🦠 McDonald’s Quarter Pounders have been linked to a multistate E. coli outbreak that’s killed at least one person, per a CDC food safety alert issued yesterday.
• 🗳️ 15+ million Americans have voted early in-person or cast mail-in ballots thus far, per the University of Florida’s Election Lab; in the states where voters register by party, 47% of the early in-person votes are from Democrats while 33% are from Republicans; Democrats also account for 49% of returned mail-in ballots compared with 31% for GOP voters.

CLICKBAIT

• 🌎☄️ S2 meteorite: What happened when a rock as big as London hit Earth?