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- Taylor Swift’s 2028 Grammy Campaign Is About To Begin
Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” misses the 2027 Grammy eligibility window, though The Life of a Showgirl and several recent singles remain eligible.
- Manga And More Honored As ‘The People’s Art’ At The Lucas Museum
The Lucas Museum celebrates influential manga and anime works as part of its inaugural exhibitions and programming, platforming pieces that most museums don't collect.
- Cooper Flagg Trading Card Sells For NBA-Record $8.04 Million
Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg’s Topps rookie debut patch card sold for $8.04 million early Friday, the highest amount ever for a single NBA player.
- Michael Jackson’s Biggest Album Reaches A Rare Sales Milestone
Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ reaches a decade as a bestseller as ‘Number Ones,’ ‘Off the Wall’ and ‘Bad’ also rank among America’s top sellers.
- Entry-level jobs were actually secret apprenticeships all along, and AI just cut the subsidy
Wharton professor Patrick Harker was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia for a decade. He knows what a tight labor market looks like.
Technology
- US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%
The new LFP battery charges from 10 to 70% in 4.5 minutes at just 65˚C.
- With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time
NASA's PRIMA mission will use spare parts from Webb to do major science at a lower cost.
- Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules
Washington says Brussels overreached when it fined X €120 million under the DSA.
- The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits
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. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to…
- Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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