💬 Quoted: “Smartest company in the world.”

• Which blue-chip corporation has the best pawn-pushers in the world? That question will be answered this weekend, when teams from Goldman Sachs, Google, Deutsche Bank, BlackRock, and eight other prominent companies gather in New York to compete for the World Corporate Chess Championship, with the winner recognized by chess’s world governing body as the smartest company on the planet. Each company’s five-member team is only allowed a single player rated above 2400, the level of international master, along with a single nonemployee – the most notable of whom is former US national chess champion Sam Shankland, playing for high-speed trading firm Susquehanna.

🤖🧑‍🏫 Stat of the Day: ChatGPT is quickly becoming a staple in classrooms across America, joining pencil sharpeners and “hang in there!” posters. Around 40% of US teachers and K-12 students say they’re using the OpenAI chatbot at least a few times per week, according to a new poll conducted last month by Impact Research for the Walton Family Foundation. The findings show a sharp uptick in usage since October-November, when polling from Common Sense Media, Hopelab, and Harvard found 4% of Americans aged 14-22 said they use AI tools daily or almost daily.

🤔 Did You Know? The northern giant seadevil, or Krøyer's deep-sea anglerfish, has the largest size discrepancy between sexes of any living animal. Females can grow up to four feet long and weigh ~500,000x more than males, who average less than an inch in length (#shortkings).

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