• 👆 Vacheron Constantin released what’s described as the most complicated wristwatch ever produced; the Les Cabinotiers Solaria Ultra Grand Complication contains 41 complications—aka functions beyond basic timekeeping—and 1,521 individual components.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• ✈️ Southwest Airlines’ new policies, such as charging for checked bags for the first time, could backfire, Fitch Ratings said Thursday.
• 🍿 Hershey is buying popcorn brand LesserEvil for a reported $750 million.
• 🕵️ A former Rippling employee admitted in court to spying for rival Deel. (Background: Here’s where it all started)

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏀 March Madness: The women’s Final Four tips later today in Tampa; the men’s Final Four tips tomorrow in San Antonio.
• 📺 The Simpsons was renewed for its 40th season; it extends the show's record as the longest-running scripted prime-time series. |🧑‍🍳 The James Beard Foundation announced its list of finalists for the 2025 James Beard Award, given to America's best restaurants and chefs.
• 📱 The Trump admin said it would announce a plan for TikTok by tomorrow. (Dive deeper: Multiple TikTok bids are on the table)

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🐒 Bonobos can combine sounds into larger semantic structures; it indicates a trait known as non-trivial compositionality, once thought to be uniquely human.
• 🤖 Engineers developed a large language model to solve multistep logistical problems with reasoning similar to that of humans; the approach showed an 85% success rate on problems such as optimizing the route of robots on a factory floor.
• 📡 DARPA, thanks to SpaceX, inadvertently discovered a new technique to identify objects reentering through Earth’s atmosphere. | 🛰️ One of Russia’s secret Kosmos satellites appears to have released an unknown object while in orbit.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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• ⛈️ Violent storms and potentially historic rainfall sweeping across the South and Midwest US has killed at least six people; the storm system is expected to remain through this weekend.
• 🗽 New York City Mayor Eric Adams is running for reelection as an Independent, meaning he’ll avoid the Democratic primary in June and appear on the ballot this November.
• 🇭🇺 Hungary is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court; the announcement came hours after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu—who’s sought under an ICC arrest warrant—arrived for a state visit.

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• 📜 Warren Buffett suggests reading a 19th century poem when stocks fall