Good morning. In today’s edition:

• 🏟️ Winter Olympics are here
• 🗳️ Trump calls to “nationalize” elections
• 💞 How to fix modern dating

…and much more.

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“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

–Lao Tzu (6th century B.C.)

The Winter Olympic Games kick off tomorrow with the opening ceremony in Milan, Italy. And while the Games have yet to officially begin, action is already well underway.

• Several Olympic competitions are scheduled to kick off prior to the opening ceremony, including alpine skiing, curling, and luge events held yesterday.
• Today’s slate includes the Team USA women’s hockey squad taking on the Czech Republic in a preliminary match at 9 am CT.

Some other top storylines heading into the Milano Cortina Olympics:

Norway is favored to win the most gold medals for the fourth straight Winter Games, with Team USA projected to place second. Oddsmakers give Norway a 60%-65% chance to win the most golds thanks to the country’s dominance across nearly all skiing events.

There’s a new sport on the scene. Ski mountaineering, often shortened as “SkiMo,” is a new event this year that combines elements of Alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, skinning (uphill skiing), and boot packing into a single race.

US Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, 40, plans to compete this weekend despite rupturing her right ACL in a crash on Friday. 

• Vonn, who recently came back from a five-year retirement, says her main goal is to compete in the downhill event.
• She’s currently leading the World Cup downhill standings, and stands as a top gold medal contender if at close to full strength.

A Spanish figure skater faces legal issues over his Minions routine. Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate, who’s repeatedly performed to Minions songs while dressed as one in recent months, revealed on Monday that his routine is banned from the Olympics due to copyright problems. But on Tuesday, Sabate said Universal Studios had reversed its objection and that he’s "so close" to being allowed to perform as a Minion in next week’s event.

Looking ahead…The Winter Games opening ceremony begins tomorrow at 1 pm CT. See the full Olympic schedule here.

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Somewhere between Slack messages and soccer practice, millions of Americans are also managing Mom’s meds. And Fitbit founders James Park and Eric Friedman think AI can help.

On Tuesday, the entrepreneurs launched a new app called Luffu that’s aimed at pulling each family’s scattered health info and consolidating it into one place, where AI tools can help answer any questions from caregivers.

Why it’s a big deal: Nearly 1 in 4 US adults (63 million Americans) are family caregivers, a number that’s jumped 45% over the past decade. Many of these caregivers are simultaneously juggling jobs, kids, and long-distance care for aging relatives with little formal support.

How it works

Families can log health information on Luffu using voice, text, or photos, with AI automatically extracting and organizing key details. The system then learns day-to-day patterns across multiple people and flags issues like missed medications, unusual vitals, or changes in sleep and activity.

• Users can also ask plain-language questions like: “Is Dad’s new meal plan affecting his blood pressure?” and receive tailored answers or charts.
• Luffu is a digital-only service for the time being, with future plans for hardware devices.

Big picture: More than a quarter of US adults (27%) report having used AI at least once to get health information, with another quarter (24%) saying they might use it in the future, according to a recent NORC study. Meanwhile, OpenAI says 40+ million Americans use ChatGPT daily to ask questions about healthcare.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 🔠 Alphabet reports better-than-expected earnings and revenue; the Google parent also reported a nearly 30% increase in net income, and said it expects capital expenditures to more than double in 2026.
• 📰 The Washington Post is cutting one-third of its staff, amounting to hundreds of journalists across nearly all news departments; the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper previously lost $77 million in 2023 and $100 million in 2024 amid web traffic declines.
• 💊 Novo Nordisk shares fall as much as 20% after the after the Ozempic-maker says it expects sales to decline this year for the first time since 2017. | Eli Lilly shares rise 10% after the Zepbound-maker reports stronger-than-expected earnings, and says it expects sales to continue growing in 2026.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏀 Dallas Mavericks trade 10-time All-Star Anthony Davis to the Washington Wizards in an eight-player deal that also involves five draft picks.
• 📺 The Muppet Show, a new version of the classic series produced by Seth Rogen, premiered yesterday on Disney+ and ABC.
• 🏒 Penn State F Gavin McKenna, 18, the consensus first overall pick in this year’s NHL draft, is charged with felony aggravated assault and other counts.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🤖🎓 OpenScholar, an open-source AI model designed by scientists to synthesize current scientific research and cite sources, performs as well as human experts at its job, new Nature study finds.
• 🪐 Jupiter is slightly smaller—by several miles on either side—and flatter than scientists had previously thought for decades, new study finds.
• 🦖 New chicken-sized dinosaur species recently discovered in Spain is shaking up scientists’ long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

• 🗳️ President Trump repeats his call for Republican lawmakers to “nationalize” voting in the US and says federal agents should be involved in counting votes; the Constitution explicitly states that US elections are run by state laws.
• 🏛️ Tom Homan, the Trump admin’s border czar, says DHS will remove ~700 federal officers currently in Minneapolis; Homan says the remaining ~2,000 officers will stay to carry out immigration enforcement.
• ⚖️ Ryan Routh, the Honolulu man convicted of attempting to assassinate President Trump in Florida two months before the 2024 presidential election, is sentenced to life in prison.

☝️ The 150th Westminster Dog Show crowned its four-legged winners on Tuesday night following a two-day contest held at Madison Square Garden. Penny the Doberman pinscher (pictured; top left) was named best in show.

🤔 Did you know? Approximately 88–90% of the global population resides in the Northern Hemisphere, with only ~10–12% living south of the Equator.

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Yesterday we covered how a Democratic candidate flipped a state Senate seat located in deep-red Texas over the weekend, marking a 31-point swing in party support compared to 2024, and raising some eyebrows in Washington ahead of the November midterms.

❓ Our question to you: If the midterms were held today, which Congressional candidate would you vote for?

• The Republican one: 29%
• The Democratic one: 59%
• One from a third party: 4%
• I don’t plan on voting: 2%
• I haven’t made up my mind yet: 6%

Click here to read some of the most thoughtful longform responses.

+Note on sample size: We received 765 votes and 131 longform responses.

What American city is directly north of Windsor, Canada?

👆🧊 Two teens built an igloo outside a fire-damaged home in the middle of an ice storm, turning snow, shovels, and teamwork into a surprisingly powerful dose of community.

Detroit

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