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- Amazon is experimenting at Whole Foods by selling mainstream brands like Pepsi, Kraft, and Chips Ahoy—and some will be hand-delivered by robots
Still, Amazon, which bought Whole Foods in 2017, doesn’t want to sully the chain’s clean-living reputation.
- Red Sox Insider Projects Kyle Schwarber As Boston’s Most Expensive Addition
The Boston Red Sox have been predicted to top their spending this winter by bringing in the Philadelphia Phillies designated hitter.
- Reddit’s CEO has just become a billionaire—a staggering 20 years after co-founding the company fresh out of college with $12,000
It’s been exactly two decades since Huffman founded the company in 2005 with friend and college roommate Alexis Ohanian.
- One Of TV’s Best Shows Has Kept Its Perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes Score
The best comedy on TV right now has a 100% Rotten Tomatoes critic score, and as dozens of reviews have come in, it still has not lost it.
- MacKenzie Scott gifts $80 million to Howard University, marking one of the school’s largest donations in its 158-year history
Howard University says the gift comes at an “opportune time” as the government shutdown has delayed annual federal appropriations.
Technology
- OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon
Deal will provide access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips that power ChatGPT.
- Capitol Hill is abuzz with talk of the “Athena” plan for NASA
The Athena plan lays out a blueprint for Isaacman's tenure at NASA.
- The State of AI: Is China about to win the race?
The State of AI is a collaboration between the Financial Times & MIT Technology Review examining the ways in which AI is reshaping global power. Every Monday for the next six weeks, writers from both publications will debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. In this conversation, the FT’s tech columnist…
- Disruption to science will last longer than the US government shutdown
The consequences of the shutdown extend far beyond a lapse in funding.
- The Download: gene-edited babies, and cleaning up copper
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s the latest company planning for gene-edited babies The news: A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited…
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