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BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📈 US markets rose across the board (S&P: +0.7%; Dow: +0.3%; Nasdaq: +1.4%). | 📲 Meta shares rose for a 12th consecutive session, their longest winning streak ever; the Facebook and Insta owner has added $240 billion in market cap during the period.
• 🫶 Match Group named Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff as its new CEO; the company, which owns Tinder and Hinge, is dealing with a slowdown in demand and user engagement.
• 🏢 Earnings corner: Chipotle reported quarterly results that topped estimates on earnings; gave weaker-than-expected same-store sales guidance for 2025. | AMD reported better-than-expected revenue and profit, though data center sales missed estimates. | Alphabet reported Q4 results that missed on revenue; the company also announced more AI investments.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏆👀 An average of 15.4 million viewers tuned into Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, marking a 9% decrease from last year; the show also raised $9 million for LA wildfire relief efforts.
• 📚⚖️ Author Neil Gaiman and his wife are facing a lawsuit accusing Gaiman of repeatedly raping his former babysitter; Gaiman was initially accused of sexual assault by eight women last summer (including the plaintiff).
• 🏟️🇺🇸 President Trump is expected to attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday; it would make him the first sitting president to do so.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🎓🤖 The California State University system is introducing OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu – a version of ChatGPT customized for educational institutions – to its 500,000+ students, faculty, and staff across 23 universities.
• 🌕🏜 Two Grand Canyon-sized craters on the Moon formed in the span of ~10 minutes following the collision of an asteroid or comet ~3.6 billion years ago, per a new study.
• 🚀 Boeing has lost $2+ billion on its Starliner rocket program to date, including $523 million in 2024 (its largest single-year loss), per new filings.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• ✈️🚁 The remains of all 67 victims from last week’s aircraft crash over Washington, D.C., have been recovered. | 📝 The Army helicopter was flying ~100 feet higher than the permitted limit of 200 feet when it collided with an American Airlines passenger jet.
• 🏛️💼 20,000+ federal workers, or ~1% of the total workforce, have accepted the buyout offer President Trump made to all employees, the White House said yesterday; the buyout offer will remain available through Thursday. | 🏛️✅ Pam Bondi was confirmed as Trump’s attorney general in a 54-46 Senate vote; Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. both cleared Senate committee votes to advance their nominations for Director of National Intelligence and Health Secretary, respectively.
• 🏛️🇮🇱 President Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint news conference at the White House yesterday following an hours-long meeting; Trump called for all ~2 million Palestinians to permanently leave Gaza for neighboring countries and for the US to take long-term control. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right). | 🏛️⚖️ The Trump administration was sued in two separate civil complaints challenging 1) the admin’s request for information about FBI employees who worked on cases involving the January 6 Capitol riot, and 2) the recent removal of data from federal health agency websites.

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CLICKBAIT

• 🗣️🐈 Study Reveals a Simple Trick to Communicate With Your Cat.