Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Salt Lake City selected to host 2034 Winter Olympics, 32 years after previously hosting the games in 2002 (More) | Tennis star Coco Gauff tapped to be Team USA's female flag bearer for tomorrow's opening ceremony (More)
> NBA signs 11-year, $76B TV and media rights deal with ABC/ESPN, NBC, and Amazon despite last-minute pitch from Warner Bros. Discovery (TNT) to continue their longtime relationship (More)
> John Mayall, 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and influential British blues musician, dies at age 90 (More)
Science & Technology
> AI models trained on AI-generated content quickly begin producing nonsensical outputs, study finds (More) | Cloud database firm Airtable launches AI-powered Cobuilder, which creates usable apps from text prompts (More)
> Astronomers detect the exoplanet—Earth-like planet outside the solar system—observed using the James Webb Space Telescope is roughly six times the size of Jupiter; also marks the oldest and coldest exoplanet found to date (More) | What makes the Webb so powerful (More, w/video)
> Neuroscientists discover brain circuitry triggered when someone experiences the placebo effect, where benefits of a drug are attributed to the patient's perception of the treatment (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -2.3%, Dow -1.3%, Nasdaq -3.6%), weighed down by underwhelming reports from Alphabet and Tesla; S&P 500 and Nasdaq record worst single-day performances since 2022 (More)
> Alphabet to invest additional $5B in its autonomous vehicle unit Waymo over the next few years; company reports Waymo is delivering 50,000 paid rides per week, primarily in San Francisco and Phoenix (More)
> New report shows 18% of all US venture capital firms have one or more female leaders, double from 2018; however, total capital raised by female founders dropped to $34.4B in 2023 from $44.2B in 2022 (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advocates for ongoing US support for Israel-Hamas war in speech to joint session of Congress (More) | About 5,000 people protest; roughly half of congressional Democrats boycott (More) | President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with Netanyahu today (More)
> FBI Director Christopher Wray reveals the shooter in the Trump assassination attempt researched details on the JFK assassination days before the attack, flew a drone 200 yards from the podium roughly two hours before rally (More)
> Typhoon Gaemi hovers near the east coast of Taiwan, killing at least two people and injuring over 200 others after wreaking devastation on the Philippines (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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