Pics du jour

🥊 Jake Paul beat Mike Tyson …◌…by…◌…unanimous…◌…decision. 60 million households tuned in live to the match, with the event peaking at 65 million concurrent streams, according to Netflix. The streamer also said 50 million households watched Katie Taylor take on Amanda Serrano in the co-main event, making it the most-watched professional women’s sporting event in US history. Some other records: The fight was streamed in 6,000+ US bars and restaurants (a record for the sport’s largest commercial distribution), and stadium gate receipts topped $18 million (the biggest boxing gate in history outside of Nevada). But it wasn’t all good news for Netflix: Many viewers experienced buffering issues, streaming glitches, and low-res video leading- up- to- and- during the fight – which may raise concerns from the NFL. Netflix is set to livestream two NFL games on Christmas Day.

🕶️🤖 OpenAI is set to release a secret agent. The ChatGPT-maker is preparing to launch a new AI agent, codenamed “Operator,” in January, per a new Bloomberg report. The agent’s mission, which it’s already chosen to accept: To perform tasks on behalf of users, such as booking travel. The move is part of a broader industry push to develop and release “agents,” or AI tools that can perform multi-step tasks with minimal human supervision. Anthropic recently launched a similar agent that can perform tasks for users; Microsoft recently unveiled AI tools to automate tasks like sending emails and managing documents; and Google is working on its own AI agent, according to The Information ($).

🌳 Joe Biden became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest. Some highlights from the visit: The president took an aerial tour of a region of the world’s largest rainforest; met with Indigenous leaders and Nobel laureate Dr. Carlos Nobre, who studies how climate change affects the Amazon; highlighted how the US spent $11 billion in climate finance this year, up from $1.5 billion in fiscal 2021; designated November 17th as International Conservation Day; and unveiled other conservation efforts, including $50 million for the Amazon Fund.