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• Several large companies have pulled ads on X after Elon Musk reposted an antisemitic remark.
• But some right-wing influencers said they would bail him out, including Andrew Tate.
• Tate pledged $1m per month, saying Musk wouldn't need anyone else.

Andrew Tate has stepped in to pledge funds to Elon Musk

• Flight attendant Malick Mercier lives in Los Angeles but works out of New York City.
• He said he gets assigned to more interesting trips from New York City and the planes are nicer.
• One of the hardest parts of supercommuting is making sure he gets to work on time, Mercier said.

This as-told-to essay is based on a

• Greg Brockman announced three key OpenAI staffers are following him and Sam Altman to Microsoft. 
• Their departures fuel fears of an employee exodus at the embattled AI startup. 
• Sam Altman is heading up a new AI team at Microsoft after his shock firing by the OpenAI board

• Speaker Mike Johnson's anti-LGBTQ record is extreme, even for a Republican.
• But the head of a prominent LGBTQ conservative group wants to give him the "benefit of the doubt."
• "We've got to see if this works," Charles Moran told Business Insider last week.

Long before he was

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Mortgage rates have dropped quite a bit so far this month, with 30-year mortgage rates hovering right around 7% after spiking close to 8% in October. 

Rates fell in response to economic data

• A Harvard professor discovered mysterious metal-rich spherules at the bottom of the ocean. 
• Because of their unique composition, he controversially claimed they were alien in nature. 
• Many scientists refuted this claim, and one now thinks they

Adobe has been issued with a formal antitrust complaint by EU regulators regarding its $20 billion bid for cloud-based product design platform Figma. Following an in-depth investigation that was launched on August 7th, the European Commission reached the preliminary conclusion on Friday that if the deal goes ahead, it may

Can a machine tell that you're mad just by looking at your face? Do your emails give away how stressed you are? Could a computer understand your emotions better than you?

According to a wave of new startups, the answer to all of the above is a resounding yes. A raft of companies is trying to sell the idea that emotion artificial intelligence can pick up on subtle facial movements

• Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist, appeared to play a central role in Sam Altman's ousting.
• The two often clashed over differences in reducing AI's potential harm to humanity, per Bloomberg.
• Sutskever once burned a wooden effigy to show his commitment to safe AI, The Atlantic reported.

Ilya Sutskever, a cofounder of

• OpenAI's new CEO, Emmett Shear, criticized Sam Altman's ousting as damaging trust in the company. 
• Shear said it was "handled very badly" and he wasn't pushed out over a "disagreement on safety".
• The Twitch cofounder made the remarks in his first statement as interim CEO in an X post at 1 a.m. 

The new CEO of OpenAI said

This didn't take long.

Shortly after OpenAI fired its CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft hired him, alongside OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, to lead the company's new, "advanced research team."

Microsoft is an investor and partner with OpenAI, owning a very large stake in the company; Microsoft also uses OpenAI's tech in its search engine, Bing.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who shared the news on Monday

• Jim Chanos tore into Elon Musk's supporters Sunday in an expletive-laden post on X.
• "If you are a cult member who believes rockets exploding are a 'success'... please sit down and STFU," the legendary short-seller said.
• The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Chanos would be shutting down his hedge