Permanently parked (Andrej Sokolow/Getty Images)

CORED

Apple scraps its EV as the self-driving dream stalls and automakers shift gears

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Unboxing the future of affordable housing

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WELLDONE

Beyond Meat’s stock sizzles after the plant-patty company served up plans for healthier financials

Dow Jones

S&P 500

Nasdaq

Bitcoin

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The idea for leap year originated with Julius Caesar in 45 BC

🍎 The iCar lost its shine

Pigtails and surge-price sales (RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images)

Burgertime

Wendy’s has plans for Uber-like surge pricing as fast-food costs turn off customers

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DIGIT-AL

Samsung seeks a bigger hand in the wearables market with its new smart ring

Home prices in major US metro areas hit a record high in December

🥤 Frosty surge pricing

The ball’s in the Supremes’ court (Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Blocked

SCOTUS hears 2 cases that could upend social-media moderation

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Why buy a single stock when you can own the entire sector?

Boxes of General Mills cereal are displayed on a grocery store shelf on December 20, 2023 in San Anselmo, California. Cereal maker General Mills reported second quarter earnings that fell short of analyst expectations with revenue of $5.14 billion compared to analyst estimates of $5.36 billion. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Cleanup

Regulators sue to block the $25B Kroger-Albertsons merger, brushing off recent antitrust L’s

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US currency paper bills are made of 75% cotton and 25% linen

📱 SCOTUS’ free-speech trials

Not pictured: giant worm costars (Joe Maher/Getty Images)

FOMOVIES

“Dune” wriggles into theaters, which are relying on blockbusters after the Hollywood strike slump

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Corn is the world's most traded commodity crop

⏳ “Dune” spices up theaters

Columbia Sportswear tests its mettle on the moon (Intuitive Machines)

Artemission

Intuitive Machines’ moon landing makes history — and beats rival space companies

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The view from above…

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StreamOn

A powerful sports-streaming trio gets sued, showing it’s a threat to rivals (and cable)

Trade smarter with real-time depth data

US millionaires and billionaires evade $150B+ in taxes each year

🌝 Lunar landed

A bigger balance (Rafael Henrique/Getty Images)

EXTRA CREDIT

Capital One’s $35B bid to buy Discover would create America’s largest credit-card lender

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RedShell

Nintendo’s reportedly delaying the Switch 2, as gaming giants look beyond consoles

Superstrong tailwinds recently pushed some passenger planes to fly over the speed of sound

💳 Discovering Capital One’s deal

Channel

Walmart agrees to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B as retailers lean on ads to boost profits

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Locking in 5% risks missing out on potential 17.6%, 17.8%, and 21.5%*

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Tagged

American Airlines raises its bag fees as airline charges continue to creep higher

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Attendees of 1 in 4 higher education programs earn less than high school grads

📺 Walmart’s $2.3B TV

Feelin’ chipper (Walid Berrazeg/Getty Images)

BIGCHIP

Nvidia, now worth more than Google, gears up to report as AI chip rivals crash its solo party

This Super Bowl had a record 59M female viewers (possibly thanks to T. Swift)

🤖 Nvidia envy

NYC Mayor Eric Adams (Lev Radin/Getty Images)

Mute

NYC sues social-media titans, seeking financial retribution for a youth mental-health crisis

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Neigh

Unicorn companies have become common, but their herds may be shrinking

SATOSH-TEE

The Crypto Catch-Up…

Nvidia passed Alphabet to become the US’s third-most-valuable company

📱NYC sues social media

Resist the urge to pinch your screen (James Manning/Getty Images)

Kidulting

Squishmallows maker sues Build-A-Bear as toy companies fight over kidult plushies

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Remember

OpenAI tests ChatGPT “memory,” opening up a can of privacy worms — and possibly a new revenue source?

Every year, US employers steal tens of billions of dollars from workers

🧸 Squishmallows vs. Build-A-Bear