Creators Are Making More User-Generated Content Than Ever. That’s Good News for Brands

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  How a 30-Something Content Creator Grew a Backyard Gardening Business to More Than $50 Million

  A community-driven content creator leveraged YouTube to grow his backyard business into a full-scale enterprise with big-box store ambitions.
  
  Inc. - 6h
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  NASCAR's new 'world-class driver' rule makes Daytona 500 qualifying more complicated than ever

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  ABC News - Feb. 11
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  Senate Dems slam USAID inspector general's firing as doing more harm than good on curbing waste

  A pair of Senate Democrats slammed President Trump’s firing of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) inspector general, calling on the administration to bring him back along with ...
  
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• ESPN plans to add user-generated content to upcoming 'flagship' streaming service

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  ESPN plans to add user-generated content to upcoming 'flagship' streaming service

  In an attempt to court younger audiences, Disney’s ESPN is planning to add some user-generated content to its yet-to-be-named flagship streaming service, which will debut later this year.
  
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  Now more than ever, AI needs a governance framework

  It is possible to develop a model with the best intentions, and for that model to be misused later on
  
  Financial Times - Feb. 8

• Why the options market is hotter than ever and could be on track for more records

  Options trading volume hit a fresh record in January as nearly 1.2 billion contracts changed hands, according to data from Cboe Global Markets.
  
  MarketWatch - Feb. 12
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  Murkowski: Trump’s mass firings ‘do more harm than good’

  Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) argued that while she agrees with President Trump’s administration goal to downsize the federal government, the current mass firings of workers across several ...
  
  The Hill - 5d
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  Is DOGE’s machete approach to the federal workforce doing more harm than good?

  Is DOGE more about disruption than savings? Does it have an ulterior motive that has little to do with reducing our nation’s debt?
  
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