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Here are the 7 things you missed today:
1. 🍟 McDonald’s is Becoming Affordable Again
Another day, another large fast-food retailer desperate for business. McDonald’s is cutting the prices of its combo meals just weeks after the CEO admitted that its menu items had gotten too expensive. McDonald’s and its US franchisees are pricing eight combo meals at 15% less than the total cost of buying the items separately. The fast-food chain also agreed to offer financial support to franchises if they agreed to the lower prices. (CNN)
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3. 🤔 A State Now Has Its Own Digital Currency
Wyoming just released the first state-backed cryptocurrency in the US, just one year after announcing that it wouldn’t wait around for a federally issued stablecoin. The digital currency debuted on Ethereum, Solana, and several other blockchains, and was appropriately named Frontier Stable Token, or FRNT. (Morning Brew)
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5. ✈️ Two Airlines Were Sued For Pulling a Fast One
Delta and United Airlines were sued on Tuesday by passengers who claimed they paid extra money for a window seat, only to be seated next to a blank wall. The proposed class action lawsuits are seeking millions of dollars of damages for more than one million passengers at each carrier. Neither Delta nor United immediately responded to requests for comment. (CNN)
6. 🙅 Meta is Hitting Pause on AI Hiring
Meta Platforms reportedly paused hiring across its artificial intelligence unit after months of aggressively poaching top talent and offering them nine-figure salaries. The decision is part of a wider reshuffle of the AI division and bars staff from transferring between internal teams. Any exceptions to outside hiring now have to be cleared by Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang. It’s unclear how long this restriction will remain in place. (Quartz)
7. 🌍 Google Plans to Launch AI Mode Globally
Google is giving 180 new countries access to AI Mode, its feature that allows users to ask complex questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within Search. It’s also adding new agentic features to AI Mode, one of which allows users to request dinner reservations based on multiple preferences, such as party size, date, time, location, and preferred cuisine. For now, this new capability is only rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. (TechCrunch)
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