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Culture
Monday Notes
Adobe's $20B Figma deal dies in the EU; ten years after 'Her,' AI companionship is no longer science fiction; and Little Brother is quietly building something new in hip-hop.
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CultureThursday Notes
Google's AI overviews are killing news referral traffic before it starts; Meta's smart glasses test how far the public will go on surveillance; Beverly Hills Cop returns after 30 years.
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Wednesday Notes
Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning anchor of 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61 — the day COP28 makes history with its first-ever fossil fuel transition agreement.
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Tuesday Notes
The Epic v. Google ruling could break open the App Store model; NYT investigates why unconscious bias in healthcare puts Black women at greater risk during pregnancy.
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CultureMonday Notes
Shohei Ohtani's $700M Dodgers contract is the largest in sports history — deferred across a decade; LeBron's Lakers claim the NBA's first-ever In-Season Tournament crown.
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NBANBA Kenya Office Opens
NBA Kenya in Nairobi is the league's third African office in less than two years — following Nigeria (2022) and Egypt — as the Luol Deng Foundation unveils a new court in South Sudan.
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CultureFriday Notes
The NBA's inaugural In-Season Tournament final is set — Lakers vs. Pacers — after Haliburton's Pacers oust Milwaukee and LeBron's crew handles the Pelicans in style.
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Aimé Leon DoreAimé Leon Dore for Drake's FW23
ALD and Drake revisit their collab playbook with a jazz-world FW23 drop — the Expedition Parka, Casentino Fleece, and Chalk Stripe Suit complete the lineup.
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CultureThursday Notes
The unicorn-to-zombie arc accelerates as funding evaporates for late-stage startups; Sundar Pichai maps out Google's Gemini strategy and where AI goes from here.
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Culture
Wednesday Notes
Barack and Michelle Obama describe Higher Ground's Hollywood ambitions: not prestige TV, but something else entirely. This edition also covers the week in Black business, fashion, and culture.
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CultureTuesday notes
A year after ChatGPT's debut, Big Tech has muscled into AI and Silicon Valley's power map has shifted. This edition captures the week's defining stories.
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CultureMonday Notes
A definitive look at how Silicon Valley's competitive anxieties and deep-pocket bets detonated the AI arms race — alongside Monday's curated cultural briefings.