- Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas last Wednesday, in response to U.S. Customs and Border Protection using an anti-drone laser last week to combat drug cartel manned drones.

- OpenAI executive Ryan Beiermeister fired in January for alleged sexual discrimination after opposing ChatGPT adult mode

- Instagram Head Denies Social Media Is ‘Clinically Addictive’

- Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, ended its partnership with a surveillance technology firm after a Super Bowl commercial generated backlash.

1. Disney names parks boss Josh D’Amaro as its next CEO to succeed Bob Iger
2. Native American tribe that owns land under Billie Eilish’s LA mansion says singer has never contacted them.
3. On the new A.I.-only social network Moltbook, thousands of chatbots are discussing topics such as cryptocurrency sales and the nature of consciousness.
4. FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show
5. President Trump assailed the Super Bowl LX halftime show, headlined by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, as “one of the worst, EVER” and “an affront to the Greatness of America.”
6. WEF World Economic Forum Matthew Liao: We can induce 'meat allergy' by using Lone Star Ticks to stop the consumption of meat and “help the planet”

Topics

- Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell (NYTimes)

- 15,000 Nurses Go on Strike Against NYC’s Richest Hospitals (Indypendent)

- The Department of Homeland Security has promised to send hundreds more federal agents into Minneapolis, days after one shot and killed a woman there.

- US Overdose Deaths Drop as Fentanyl Supply Weakens, Study Finds (Bloomberg)