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The Trump Administration Is Set to Pocket $10 Billion From the TikTok Deal

Wall Street Journal

The Trump administration is set to receive a roughly $10 billion fee from investors — including Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX — as payment for brokering the deal that transferred control of TikTok's U.S. business from Chinese parent company ByteDance to a majority American-owned entity.

Historians described the payment as nearly unprecedented for a government facilitating a corporate transaction, dwarfing the typical fees earned by investment banks, which usually take less than 1% of a deal's total value.

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SPORTS

Bam Adebayo Scores 83 Points to Enter the NBA Record Books

NBA.com

Bam Adebayo scored 83 points against the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history, surpassing Kobe Bryant's 81-point game and falling just short of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point record from 1962.

Adebayo's historic performance included NBA records for free throw attempts and makes in a single game, as he carried a shorthanded Miami Heat team to a 150-129 victory.

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STEM

The Sneaky Way Pokémon Go Became a Massive Robot Training Program

Popular Science

Niantic Spatial, the company behind Pokémon Go, has partnered with delivery robot company Coco Robotics to use its Visual Positioning System — a navigation tool trained on over 30 billion images captured by Pokémon Go players — to help robots navigate city streets more precisely than GPS alone.

Unknowingly, years of players scanning real-world landmarks while hunting virtual creatures has created a massive crowdsourced mapping dataset that will now guide food delivery robots to their destinations.

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ARTS

The Rare Van Gogh Print Hidden from the World in Wartime Iran

The Art Newspaper

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art holds Iran's only Van Gogh, a rare 1882 lithograph titled "At Eternity's Gate," which passed through the hands of US Vice President Nelson Rockefeller before being purchased by the Shah of Iran's wife in 1975 for $65,000.

The print has spent much of its time locked in the museum's storeroom since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and now faces renewed concern as recent military strikes in Tehran have hit just one kilometre from the museum.

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SPORTS

Jack Hughes Delivers as USA Dethrones Canada in Olympic Hockey Thriller

New York Times

The United States men's hockey team won Olympic gold for the first time since 1980, defeating Canada 2-1 in three-on-three overtime at the 2026 Milan Olympics, with Jack Hughes scoring the game-winner and goalie Connor Hellebuyck making 41 saves.

The victory ended Canada's 15-game winning streak in best-on-best Olympic hockey and was led by captain Auston Matthews and a standout performance from Hellebuyck.

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ARTS

Eric Barone Reflects on 10 Years of Stardew Valley

IGN

In a reflective 10th-anniversary interview, Eric Barone discusses his evolution from a solo "scrappy amateur" to the leader of a collaborative team managing a global phenomenon that has sold nearly 50 million copies.

He reveals plans for a 1.7 update featuring new marriage candidates and improved child mechanics, while admitting that his deep sense of responsibility to the community keeps him returning to the Valley despite his desire to work on new projects.

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NATIONS

Japan and US Team Up on Strategic Synthetic Diamond Production

Reuters

Japan and the United States are collaborating on a strategic synthetic diamond plant in the U.S. as part of a $550 billion investment package aimed at securing supply chains independent of China.

This project, alongside major power-generation and data center initiatives, underscores the allies' efforts to expand domestic production of materials critical for semiconductor manufacturing, quantum devices, and military applications.

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ARTS

The Immortal Blockbuster How GTA V Hit 225 Million Sales

Wikipedia

Grand Theft Auto V has achieved a monumental 225 million units in lifetime sales, driving the entire franchise past 465 million copies and helping parent company Take-Two Interactive exceed recent financial forecasts.

This unprecedented longevity is attributed to a strategic three-generation console release and the enduring success of GTA Online, which has maintained a massive, monetized player base for over a decade.

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STEM

Why Quantum Mechanics Challenges the Idea of a Real Past

The Conversation

To explain the quantum experiments that challenged our understanding of reality, some physicists suggest "retrocausality"—the idea that future actions can influence past events.

By accepting that causes can flow backward, researchers aim to preserve the concepts of locality and realism without resorting to the more restrictive ideas of superdeterminism.

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INDUSTRY

Microsoft Chief Satya Nadella Warns AI Boom Could Falter Without Wider Adoption

Financial Times

Satya Nadella warned at Davos that AI risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its benefits and adoption spread beyond big tech and wealthy nations to reach a diverse range of global industries.

Despite this concern, he expressed confidence that the technology will drive widespread economic growth as companies learn to leverage multiple AI models and proprietary data to boost productivity.

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