• 👆 A Wes Anderson retrospective exhibit—featuring thousands of props, puppets, and set pieces from the director's dozen films—recently opened in Paris.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📉 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -1.1%; Dow: -0.3%; Nasdaq: -2.0%). | 📝 President Trump announced he's imposing a 25% tariff on "all cars that are not made in the United States"; said they'll go into effect April 2.
• 💰 Wall Street bonuses reached a record total of $47.5 billion in 2024 (up 34% YOY); the average annual bonus rose by almost a third, to $244,700.
• 💵🌳 Dollar Tree is selling subsidiary Family Dollar to a group of private-equity investors for ~$1 billion; it acquired the Family Dollar chain in 2015 for ~$9 billion.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

in partnership with Autio

• 🍿 Marvel unveiled the cast for Avengers: Doomsday. | 🤠 The trailer for Alec Baldwin’s new film Rust is here; the film was marred by the accidental death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
• 🥤 Steph Curry and Michelle Obama partnered to launch a new healthier sports drink option called Plezi.
• 🏀 Milwaukee Bucks star Damian Lillard is out indefinitely with deep vein thrombosis (a blood clot) in his calf; the same condition ended Victor Wembanyama's season.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🤖📸 OpenAI announced plans to add image generation to ChatGPT, though it later delayed the rollout to free users due to higher-than-expected demand.
• 🚕 Waymo is expanding its driverless taxi service to Washington, DC, starting in 2026.
• ⚒️ Archaeologists in the UK discovered an “unprecedented” hoard of 800+ Iron Age artifacts dating back ~2,000 years; the items seem to have been purposefully burnt or broken as a show of power and wealth.

MISCELLANEOUS

in partnership with Four Leaf Rover

• 🌉 America’s infrastructure received a “C” grade in a once-every-four-year report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers; that’s up from a “C-” in 2021, and the highest grade since the report card was established in 1998.
• ⚖️ The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of upholding Biden-era federal firearms laws that cover “ghost guns,” or homemade weapons assembled from kits.
• 🎓🏛️ A Turkish graduate student at Tufts University became the latest pro-Palestine international student to be detained by federal immigration authorities; the Tufts student isn’t facing charges, but had her student visa revoked; she recently co-wrote an opinion piece calling on Tufts to adopt a pro-Palestine stance and divest from companies tied to Israel.

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