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The best performer on the S&P today has delicious breadsticks.

Here are the 7 things you missed today:

1. 🪧 Amazon Workers Are Striking in 7 Facilities

Right in time for the peak of holiday shopping season (intentionally), Amazon workers across seven facilities in New York, Georgia, California, and Illinois went on strike today to lobby for better benefits, higher wages, and safer working conditions. (CNBC)

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3. 🧠 Google Released Its Own ‘Reasoning AI Model

The new model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, not only rolls right off the tongue but also is only in the experimental stages. The model can be accessed in AI Studio, Google’s AI prototyping platform and is being debuted as “best for multimodal understanding, reasoning, and coding.” (TechCrunch)

5. 🗞️ Apple Intelligence is Falsely Summarizing News Reports

Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders is urging Apple to remove its newly introduced AI-powered news summary feature after it sent a push notification falsely summarizing a BBC report last week in a ridiculously bad way. (CNN)

6. 🚛 FedEx Announced Much-Anticipated Freight Spinoff

FedEx Freight is the largest US provider of less-than-truckload services, which carry multiple shipments from different customers through a network of service centers and trucks with similar destinations. Now, they’re looking to restructure operations by spinning off the business and focusing more on its core delivery offerings. (CNBC)

7. 🍝 Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse Are Earning Big

Despite a lot of chain restaurants going bankrupt recently, diners still can’t resist unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks. Darden Restaurants, owner of chain restaurants Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse, is now the best performer on the S&P witht he company reporting strong earnings today. (Quartz)

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