Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Buffalo Bills’ Josh Allen edges Baltimore Ravens Lamar Jackson to win NFL’s Most Valuable Player award (More) | NCAA bans transgender athletes from competing in women's sports a day after President Donald Trump's executive order (More)
> Irv Gotti, music producer and founder of record label for major acts like Ashanti and Ja Rule, dies at age 54 (More) | Virginia Halas McCaskey, longtime owner of the Chicago Bears, dies at age 102 (More)
> Shohei Ohtani's ex-interpreter sentenced to 57 months in prison after admitting to stealing nearly $17M from Ohtani to cover gambling debts (More)
Science & Technology
> AI researchers train a reasoning model for under $50 in computing using a technique known as distillation on an earlier version of Google's Gemini (More) | How distillation works (More)
> Humpback whale songs follow the same basic structure as human language; vocalizations obey Zipf's law, which states the most common words follow a power distribution (More)
> Personalized cancer vaccine shows promising results in early study in patients with kidney cancer; genetic material from each person's individual tumor was used to develop their treatments (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq +0.5%) (More) | Peloton shares close up 12% after beating sales forecasts (More) | Coach parent Tapestry shares close up 12% to all-time high after topping sales estimates (More)
> Honeywell to split into three companies, separating its aerospace unit from its automation business and spinning off its advanced materials arm (More) | Amazon tops Q4 earnings estimates; shares fall after hours on lowered Q1 guidance (More)
> Bank of England cuts key interest rate by quarter-point to 4.5%—the lowest level since mid-2023—and halves 2025 economic growth outlook to 0.75% (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Federal judge extends deadline for Trump administration's buyout offer to government workers to at least Monday, pending court hearing (More) | Federal workers union sues to block shutdown of US Agency for International Development (More) | Russell Vought, coauthor of Project 2025 policy roadmap, confirmed to lead Office of Management and Budget (More)
> "60 Minutes" releases unedited transcripts of October interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, which triggered a $10B lawsuit from President Donald Trump, who claims CBS doctored the interview and should be terminated (More)
> US Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines jet and led to deaths of 67 people last week had key surveillance system turned off, officials say (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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