This week’s auction block roundup
This personalized scrapbook, from Christine McVie’s archives, contains dozens of newspaper and magazine clippings documenting Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Are preschoolers getting enough outdoor time?
Three states — Minnesota, Washington and Wisconsin — have specific rules or guidance for time spent in nature, including at parks, forests and green spaces.
4 billionaires getting even richer from AI
Clarke said Dell is only at the start of its venture into AI and believes it’s “uniquely positioned with our broad portfolio to help customers build GenAI solutions that meet performance, cost and security requirements.”
Spirit Airlines stock plunges 28% because the end might be near
The carrier’s last financial report showed its 11th consecutive quarterly loss and revealed its struggle to make headway in a turnaround while having to increasingly compete with larger so-called “legacy” players for low-fare customers.
The top K-12 conferences to attend in 2025
The CEC Convention & Expo brings together special education professionals from around the world to learn and connect in hundreds of sessions covering the latest research, tips and strategies to support learners with disabilities and/or gifts and talents.
Boeing strike drama, Southwest fights off an activist, and the best big airports: Airlines news roundup
The company announced Monday that it is revising its original offer — the 25% wage increase that members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers voted down last week — to a proposed 30% bump.
Oura just launched its latest smart ring. Apple and Samsung are coming for it
The Oura Ring 4 is set to provide more accurate tracking of sleep, exercise, stress, heart health, and other metrics via “Smart Sensing.” The company says the new tech is powered through an “algorithm that works alongside the research-grade sensors” and is able to “respond to each member’s unique finger physiology.”
Google is taking its rivalry with OpenAI to another level
After the model, which was internally called Strawberry, was released in September, some employees in Google’s DeepMind unit were worried the company had fallen behind, a person told Bloomberg.
A cable company is throwing in free streaming to keep customers from cutting the cord
“With the renewal of our long-standing partnership with NBCUniversal, we now have completed deals with every major programmer to create better flexibility and greater value to our customers by including DTC [direct-to-consumer] streaming apps with their Spectrum TV service, at no extra cost,” Tom Montemagno, the executive vice president of programming acquisition for Charter Communications, said in a press release.
American car prices could spike and sales could slump thanks to Biden’s ban on Chinese EVs
Without Chinese software and hardware in our cars, the American people would reportedly be safe from data thefts and “remote manipulation of connected vehicles,” the site explains.
Costco, Hims, Noom, and more: 6 companies that started hawking weight loss products this year
The millennial-skewed tele-health platform Hims & Hers announced in May that is now offering customers a compounded version of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck with crypto voters, Coinbase poll says
Seventy-six percent of crypto owners living in America say they own cryptocurrency because it gives them a sense of freedom, and nearly 87% believe that the current financial system needs an update, according to the report.
A massive U.S. port strike is just hours away
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) on Monday accused the alliance representing employers operating at more than a dozen major ports of blocking negotiations, paving the way for a devastating strike to kick off in roughly 12 hours.
A lethal tornado struck. How did the district respond and recover?
Michelle McNear, who served as principal at Wayland Bonds Elementary during the 2013 storm and is now deputy superintendent of human resources, said she remembered watching the tornado stop right in front of her school and then head down a different route.
How educators can help students learn to resolve conflict and move forward
Mulvey also suggests that schools consider working with restorative justice and peer mediation partners to help classes share and converse with those who have engaged in harmful behavior rather than just handing out consequences and punishment.
An AI mentor, robots, and a model that can ‘brainstorm’: This week in new AI launches
Harmonic, an AI company developing mathematical superintelligence, announced that it raised a $75 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
Nvidia is back in the $3 trillion club — and Jensen Huang is $2 billion richer
This current uptick in Nvidia stock may be driven by Bain’s annual technology report, released Wednesday, that predicted that the market for AI products could reach as much as almost $1 trillion by 2027.