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Pizza Hut Hijacks Hong Kong's Lunch Rush with Cheeky Pop-Up Store
[Business]
2025/04/10 09:08
Pizza Hut is hijacking the crazy lunch lines of Hong Kong with its new comical pop-up store to give hungry lunch-goers a timely reminder that they don’t need to waste their time waiting for a delicious lunch. Hong Kong’s lunch rush is exactly that: a manic rush. Why? Because if you snooze, you queue. From 12:30-2 the city’s cafes and restaurants have lines trailing out the door. And with mos...
Samsung Taps Google AI to Launch Long-Promised Ballie Robot With Video Projector
[Product]
2025/04/10 09:07
Samsung first previewed the Ballie in early 2020 and says it will be released this summer after years of delays. Samsung Electronics Co. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google are partnering to launch the Ballie, a soccer-ball-shaped home robot that uses artificial intelligence and can project video onto walls.Samsung Electronics Co. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are partnering to launch the Ballie, a soccer...
Gen Z is Still Anxiously Using AI
[Consumer]
2025/04/10 09:06
How young Americans say AI makes them feel.Share who agree or strongly agree; Survey of 3,465 people ages 13 to 28 conducted March 6-13, 2025A split bar chart showing how young Americans say AI makes them feel, from a survey of young people ages 13 to 28 conducted in March 2025. 53% of Gen Z adults agree that AI makes them feel anxious, compared to 21% of high school and middle school students....
Two Yale Juniors Raise $3.1M for The First AI Social Network, The Anti-Facebook
[Investing]
2025/04/10 09:05
Series, a Gen Z-focused platform, uses AI agents in iMessage to make meaningful introductions based on mutual value.Two Yale College juniors, Sean Hargrow ’26 and Nathaneo Johnson ’26, have raised $3.1 million to launch Series, an AI-powered platform that curates connections between users based on their needs. The two met at the Yale Entrepreneurial Society in their freshman year, hosting a p...
Korean Won Drops to Lowest Since 2009 as Asian Currencies Fall
[Investing]
2025/04/10 09:04
Asia’s Trade-Sensitive Currencies Whipsaw Amid Tariff Turmoil. Asia's trade-sensitive currencies have fallen to multiyear lows due to President Donald Trump's tariff policies, which risk pushing the global economy into recession.Asia’s trade-sensitive currencies swung around multiyear lows as the region reels from President Donald’s Trump’s tariff policies that risk pushing the global econo...
Authors Guild Launches “Human Authored” Certification to Preserve Authenticity in Literature
[Business]
2025/04/10 09:03
AI-generated books are flooding online marketplaces and increasingly look like, and sometimes even read like, human-authored books. The reader may have no way of knowing if a book they come across is AI-generated or authored by a human. The Authors Guild believes that readers have the right to know if a text was written by AI or a human, and that writers should have the ability to distinguish t...
(PDF) Art Basel and UBS Report - The Art Market Report 2025
[Business]
2025/04/09 09:10
The Art Market Had an Awful 2024, Art Basel and UBS Report Finds. The global art market declined 12% in value in 2024, with sales falling in major markets including the US, China, France, Germany, Italy, and South Korea.Although sales across tracked geographies faced continued headwinds in 2024 due to political tensions, economic volatility and trade fragmentation—resulting in a 12 percent dec...
KIT KAT’s The Break Brothers Are Here to Protect Your Breaktime
[Business]
2025/04/09 09:09
Consolidating its position as the “authority-figure on breaks”, KIT KAT releases a new walking, talking, extension of the brand’s iconic tagline during the NCAA Men’s Championship game on April 7th.We’re all guilty of it, spending our lunch breaks in front of the computer, forgetting to actually step away and take that well-deserved break. KIT KAT however, is here to change that. Today it...
How Google Makes Money
[Investing]
2025/04/09 09:08
Alphabet (GOOG) is making its biggest bet yet on AI infrastructure.The company plans to invest $75 billion in 2025—a 43% jump from last year—far exceeding expectations of $58 billion. This massive capex ramp will expand AI capacity, but it could also affect near-term free cash flow and margins.Of course, Alphabet isn’t alone in this AI arms race. Microsoft is investing $80 billion in capex f...
