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🇩🇰🤖 Denmark unveiled a national AI supercomputer funded by Ozempic. The country’s new Gefion supercomputer was built with technology from Nvidia and funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, a charitable organization that’s also the Ozempic-maker’s largest shareholder. Gefion, which is bigger than a basketball court and cost $100 million to develop, will be made available to Danish scientists and businesses (like Novo Nordisk) to help drive research in medicine, quantum computing, green energy, and more.

🏘️ The typical US homebuyer is more likely to be a married couple, or single, older, and a woman. In a report tracking transactions between July 2023–June 2024, the NAR found first-time home buyers decreased to 24% of the market (from 32% last year), marking the lowest figure since data collection began in 1981. The median age of a first-time buyer also reached a record high (38 years old). The NAR also found the share of married couples increased to 62% of all buyers, while single female buyers rose to 20%, single males decreased to 8%, and unmarried couples dropped to 6%.

✈️👍 Boeing machinists voted in favor of a new contract, ending their 7+-week strike. In its latest proposed contract, which was approved with 59% support from workers in yesterday's vote, Boeing offered pay raises of 38% over four years (which works out to ~43% when compounded), plus ratification and productivity bonuses. Pensions were a main sticking point in negotiations, with Boeing resisting workers’ demands to restore their pension plan frozen nearly a decade ago. Now that the contract is ratified, workers are scheduled to return to the job by November 12.