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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> "The Joe Rogan Experience" tops Apple's year-end podcast charts by listenership; "The Telepathy Tapes" ranks No. 1 in top series and most shared categories (More)

> Alice and Ellen Kessler, German twins and entertainment duo who rose to international stardom in the 1950s and 1960s, die at 89 by assisted suicide (More)

> Sean "Diddy" Combs faces new sexual assault claims from music producer over alleged 2020 and 2021 incidents; LA County Sheriff's Department is investigating (More)


Science & Technology
> Google rolls out Gemini 3 AI model, built to better grasp nuance and user intent; release comes nearly eight months after Gemini 2.5 and almost two years after 1.0 (More) | The best resources we've found on large language models (1440 Topics)

> Engineers use ultrasonic waves to shake water molecules out of air; method is 45 times more efficient than heat-based systems and could improve access to clean drinking water in desert regions (More)

> First-ever 3D analysis of preserved Neanderthal nasal cavity challenges long-standing theory that Neanderthals developed large noses to adapt to cold climate (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.8%, Dow -1.1%, Nasdaq -1.2%); S&P 500 logs longest slide since August (More)

> Meta wins FTC antitrust case after federal judge rules the tech giant did not monopolize personal social networking services when it acquired Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 (More)

> AI company Anthropic valued at around $350B after up to $5B investment from Microsoft and up to $10B investment from Nvidia; Anthropic to commit up to $30B to Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Trump administration takes steps to dismantle the Education Department by transferring key programs to four other agencies, which include the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, State, and Interior (More)

> Misplaced wire label caused cargo ship to lose power and crash into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge last year, killing six construction workers (More)

> Federal court bars Texas from using its new congressional map in 2026 midterm elections; new map would have shifted up to five districts from Democratic to Republican (More)

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