OpenAI Backstabs Disney, While Anthropic Catapults Ahead

Celine Dion makes a comeback, Trader Joe’s massive recall, and the new jeans you need

• United Airlines now offers a relax row where you can turn a row of seats into a bed

• Massive Trader Joe’s frozen food recall keeps expanding

• Apollo founder Leon Black said he paid Epstein $170M for tax services, turns out it was largely to obscure millions in payments to unknown women

• Chinese EV giant BYD has a new vehicle that can fully charge in just NINE MINUTES

• Succession Olympics in motion at Apple as long-time CEO Tim Cook plots retirement

• Gulf states are inching closer to joining the war against Iran

• Apollo caps private credit fund withdrawals amidst PE industry struggles

• Anthropic is allegedly growing revenue by 30% a week, per Fidelity

• Celine Dion returning to the stage in Paris

• OpenAI closes Sora, and it caught their chief partner, Disney, by total surprise

• Figure AI robot stepped foot inside the White House with Melania

• Bernie & AOC announced legislation to pause all new data center construction nationwide

• OpenAI is promising PE firms a guaranteed 17.5% return…but like…how?

• Pfizer has a new Lyme disease vaccine, which would save thousands from chronic illness every year

• Sheryl Sandberg leans back in by hiring a 25-year-old to run her foundation’s new fight against “tradwife” culture

• US action in Iran and Venezuela is making Putin paranoid that he could be next

• Oura Health, of Oura Ring fame, is interviewing banks for an IPO at an $11B valuation

• NYC airports have been a mess

• The UES is mourning the closing of Mezzaluna

• Arthur Brooks explains how to stop wasting your life by way of Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life

• AI Notetaker Granola hits $1.5 Billion valuation

• Youth sports are a $40B industry that Dick’s controls, and parents are holding star students back in 8th grade to help their NFL draft chances??

• What’s the deal with all the fruit & veggie AI slop on your TikTok

• Terrifying underground lab manipulating ebola, malaria, and COVID-19 found operating in CA

• Housewives are gone, divorcees run Bravo now

• Hollywood executives are crushing Hollywood dreams

• The world of LA’s crypto kids is dark and dangerous

• The ozempicization of the economy

• Tobacco companies maximized their products’ addictiveness and a jury on Wednesday

• agreed that social media companies like Meta and Youtube are liable for doing the same

• Incredible piece about the former Horses chef who was accused of killing cats

• Powerful essay about giving birth as a 45 year old

• Rick Rubin // Adam Neumann interview

• The case for Apple to make TVs

• CBS’s 60 Minutes segment about America’s shipbuilding crisis is worth watching

• HBO’s Harry Potter series comes out Christmas, and they dropped a surprise trailer

• New Still Here collection out today!

• A$AP Rocky raybans

• Blush stick

• Dream pinch waist jacquard cardigan

• Celine eyeglasses

• Ilia lip gloss in enamel

• Westman Atelier bronzing drops

• I am still considered this J Crew rollneck ( I have been influenced)

• These reformation shoes

• R13 Jeans I am really considering

• The Vogue vintage market ( hosted by Doja Cat) is happening this Saturday in New York

• Should our politics be central to our identity?

• What do you base your decision off of when determining whether to drink alcohol at a meal?

• If you could go anywhere for a weekend trip right now, where would you be going?

• Squirrels are vaping… is this the end times?