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Jay-Z’s company picks the Super Bowl halftime act. This year, he reportedly picked Jay-Z. Imagine being the HR department and the new hire.
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CNN and CBS News are now one company, and Elon’s SpaceX might put $10B into it. Big week for anyone who wanted fewer people deciding what’s news.
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Americans paid over $7M to direct livestreamed abuse of Filipino children, some just 5, CNN found. Investigators say it’s harder to stop as US agents shift to immigration enforcement.
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A viral video from France's protests shows a demonstrator nicknamed 'Captain America de Paris,' dressed as the character, deflecting water cannons as crowds cheer. The superhero moment came amid chaos as 550,000 people protested rising living costs and failing schools.
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#AI companions just got their strangest use case yet. A mother in Abu Dhabi has drafted a will asking her son’s future guardians to check with #ChatGPT on his school, home, #health and faith after she dies. The idea: the AI keeps her values on record.
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ChatGPT gets no legal power. People still make every decision. But no court has approved this, and nobody has worked out who stores her data or what #OpenAI’s role is. That’s the open question for every AI company: what happens when users trust you with their family?
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It’s not just AI. In China, lonely older people are paying young strangers to be their “temporary children.” The loneliness economy now has two products: software and people. Both are selling company. Both stories are 90-second reads on Volv → volvmedia.onelink.me/I4au/j4…
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Big Tech CEO pay: the number they show you vs. the one they get
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1/ Okay, so we're saying "SI" now instead of "AI." The White House said so. Cool, love that for us. One tiny thing: .si is Slovenia. Slovenia is now having the week of its life, and someone wants $699,995 for AI.si. I'm sorry, what?
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4/ The real winner here? Slovenia, obviously. It collects the fees whether these names ever sell or not. The speculators are betting a vocabulary memo sticks. I'd simply never. But I'll be watching.
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1/ When did you last have friends over for dinner? Not drinks out. Dinner, at your place. If you can't remember, you're not alone: in 1975, almost half of Americans hosted. Today it's barely 1 in 10.
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4/ Here's what stings: 39% of Americans without a degree never have anyone over. Hosting is turning into a privilege. Maybe the most radical thing you can do this weekend is send one text: "Come over. I'll cook."
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