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'Generational talent' Soto seals £600m Mets deal - biggest in history of sport
Baseball star Juan Soto signs the biggest contract in the sport's history, agreeing a $765m (£600m) deal over 15 years with the New York Mets.BBC News - 8h -
Lawsuit Calls Scale AI ‘the Sordid Underbelly of the Generative AI Industry’
CEO Alexandr Wang is named in the suit, which cites emotional distress for contractors who worked on a self-harm-prevention project for Meta.Inc. - 14h -
Scaling AI: Platform best practices
While the details will vary, there are 4 common principles that help companies to successfully deploy AI at scale.VentureBeat - 18h -
Sara Sharif: Smiles, songs and dreams of X Factor
Murdered Sara was a caring, cheerful "chatterbox" who "would sing to anyone", her head teacher says.BBC News - 19h -
Albertsons Backs Out of Merger Deal and Sues Kroger After Court Rulings
The supermarket chain had tried to join forces with Kroger, but judges sided with federal and state regulators who charged that the merger would reduce competition.The New York Times - 12h -
Albertsons sues Kroger, backs out of $25B merger after courts block the deal
Albertsons has filed a lawsuit against Kroger one day after federal judges blocked a potential $24.6 billion merger deal.ABC News - 15h -
Unusual scales on crocodile heads due to skin growth rate, scientists say
Researchers find that varying stiffness and speeds at which skin grows lead to ‘mechanical’ formation of inward folds. It sounds like a conundrum that Rudyard Kipling would have explored in his ...The Guardian - 17h -
Shooting suspect Luigi Mangione suffered back pain — a chronic condition over 600 million people deal with globally
One study noted that it’s “the leading cause of disability in most countries.”MarketWatch - 19h -
Trump ready to 'seal' border from immigrants on Day 1
President-elect Trump is signaling he wants to completely reshape the nation's immigration laws starting on Jan. 20, the day he officially takes office. Immigration has always been Trump’s core ...The Hill - 22h -
Alonso 'still dreaming' of third world title
Fernando Alonso says 2026 will be a "time of delivering" as he prepares to link up with Adrian Newey at Aston Martin.BBC News - 1d -
Sources: Eovaldi back to Rangers on 3-year deal
Sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan that Nathan Eovaldi's deal with the Rangers is for three years and $75 million.ESPN - 1d -
Seal colony thriving 'thanks to secluded site'
The National Trust hopes the colony will continue to grow and rival others along the coast.BBC News - 1d -
Nathan Eovaldi returns to Rangers: Free-agent pitcher goes back to Texas on three-year, $75M deal, per report
Eovaldi is coming off an impressive two-year run with the RangersCBS Sports - 1d -
Movie Review: A 'Lord of the Rings' tradition turns small-scale in the anime 'Rohirrim'
It’s a discombobulating experience, after a “Lord of the Rings” trilogy that was built, down to every frame and hobbit hair, for the big screen, to see something so comparatively minor, ...ABC News - 1d -
How Being an Influencer Became a New American Dream
Two preteen girls promote fashion and beauty products to thousands of online fans from their rural Alabama home.The New York Times - 1d -
Omnicom and AssuredPartners mergers highlight need for ‘scale’ as dealmakers get busy
A pair of big-money acquisitions by advertising company Omnicom and insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher tip the scales at a combined $27 billion.MarketWatch - 2d -
El Salvador to scale back bitcoin dreams to seal $1.3bn IMF deal
Central American nation to make acceptance of cryptocurrency voluntary to unlock international lendingFinancial Times - 2d -
Lopetegui and O'Neil stay focused before 'El Sackico'
Two managers go into Monday's game between West Ham and Wolves - but there is the feeling only one may come out.BBC News - 3d -
The NASA-SpaceX launch to Titan sparks dreams of colonization
It turns out that the moon of Saturn has certain advantages for future space colonists not present on the moon or Mars.The Hill - 3d -
Norris wins to seal constructors' title for McLaren
Lando Norris secures McLaren's first Formula 1 constructors' championship for 26 years with victory in the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.BBC News - 3d -
Now Syria can dream of a future again
The walls of fear have been destroyed — there is a new landscape of hope that has been hard to even dare to imagineFinancial Times - 3d -
Loss to Forest makes scale of Manchester United rebuild clear to Ruben Amorim
Following back-to-back defeats, it shows that the task at hand for Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim will continue to be a hard one.ESPN - 3d -
Kevin Schade seals win for Brentford in six-goal thriller against Newcastle
A game almost as wild as the wind it was played in ended with Brentford claiming a seventh win in eight unbeaten home games and in the process casting off the hex Newcastle had held over them: the ...The Guardian - 4d -
Dream Big and Unleash Your Full Leadership Potential
You must believe in the power of your dreams and have the confidence to pursue them relentlessly.Inc. - 4d -
'Let's finish this': Lions go for it on 4th, seal win
Lions coach Dan Campbell stuck to his guns and went for it on fourth down, helping to set up a walk-off field goal Thursday night in a 34-31 win over the Packers.ESPN - 5d -
El Salvador's president is triumphant after his bet on bitcoin comes true
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is triumphant about his big bet on bitcoin as the cryptocurrency reached historic highs, surpassing $100,000 for the first timeABC News - 5d -
AWS cuts database prices almost 50% and adds distributed scaling capabilities
AWS has launched new features for DynamoDB, Aurora and MemoryDB cloud databases to help scale distributed workloads and lower costs.VentureBeat - 6d -
El Salvador sits on $300 million-plus profit as bitcoin hits a milestone
The tiny Central American country of El Salvador is now looking at a hefty profit from its bitcoin ambitions, as the cryptocurrency reached $100,000 on Wednesday.MarketWatch - 6d -
FirstFT: Bitcoin hits $100,000 on back of Trump support
Also in this newsletter, French parliament removes prime minister and Trump discusses replacing defence secretary pickFinancial Times - 6d -
Bitcoin hit $100,000. What’s next?
Predictions from an arcane method popularised in 18th-century FranceFinancial Times - Dec. 5 -
Bitcoin Price Surges to a Milestone: $100,000
The price of a single Bitcoin rose to six figures for the first time, an extraordinary level for a 16-year-old cryptocurrency once dismissed as a sideshow.The New York Times - Dec. 5 -
Euro drifts as political turmoil dents sentiment; bitcoin scales $100,000
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The euro was subdued on Thursday after the widely expected collapse of the French government, stoking worries about the region's second-biggest economic power, while bitcoin ...Yahoo Sports - Dec. 5 -
Meta to scale back content moderation
Presented by LGBT Tech — {beacon} Technology Technology PRESENTED BY The Big Story Meta says harmless content taken down 'too often' Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said ...The Hill - Dec. 3 -
Hotel lift death turns 'dream holiday into a nightmare'
Tyler Kerry's body was found partially clothed at the bottom of a lift shaft at a hotel in Turkey on FridayBBC News - Dec. 3 -
Bitcoin's post-election boom
Presented by LGBT Tech — {beacon} Technology Technology PRESENTED BY The Big Story Bitcoin's boost for Trump Bitcoin has blasted through a series of record highs since President-elect Trump’s ...The Hill - Dec. 2 -
How This Engineer Entrepreneur Scaled STEAM Education for Kids
At Jenny Young’s growing Brooklyn Robot Foundry, budding tinkerers get hands-on training to create the technology of the future.Inc. - Dec. 2 -
MicroStrategy has kept buying bitcoin as prices have pulled back
The software company has spent nearly $7 billion buying bitcoin in the past two weeks as prices have pulled back.MarketWatch - Dec. 2
