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The Wall Street Journal reports that this afternoon, we’ll hear about how the chipmaker that Apple, Nvidia, and many others rely on “intends to invest $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years,” likely linked to the president’s tariffs.

If you use Slack for things like “sending messages,” an outage tracker shows a known issue since around 10:30AM ET. Some people have reported being unable to access Slack via desktop apps at all, while others aren’t getting updates from all of their channels.

Serial podcast subject Adnan Syed was freed in 2022 after prosecutors questioned evidence presented during the trial over the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, but then in 2023, it was reinstated.

Responses from 5,273 employed adults in the US show that 52 percent are worried about the use of AI in the workplace. People who reported using AI were more likely to say they believe it will affect future job opportunities, whether saying it would lead to fewer (42 percent) or more (15 percent), compared to 32 and 6 overall, respectively. The most common uses? Doing research or editing written content.

Puck reports that Kennedy, who has steered franchises like Star Wars and Indiana Jones since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, has informed the studio and others that she will step down by the end of 2025.

After questions were raised earlier this month about the line item proposing $400 million for “Armored Tesla (Production Units),” the State Department said the solicitation stemmed from a Biden-admin request. However, an NPR reporter says a document shows the Biden administration had approved less than $500k to look into armoring electric vehicles, while experts said the new figure would just about account for replacing the department’s entire 3,000-vehicle fleet with Tesla trucks.

This Wall Street Journal report looks into Apple’s history of spending to give some context to its half-trillion-dollar Monday morning announcement.

A panel of judges in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld the convictions of Elizabeth Holmes and Ranesh “Sunny” Balwani on “numerous” fraud charges over their Theranos scheme.

As shown in a clip posted by The Handbasket writer Marisa Kabas, people in the Department of Housing and Urban Development HQ were greeted on day one of their mandatory return to office with what appears to be an AI-generated video of Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet. It is visible in the post, and they are both left feet, for some reason.

Closely following similar news from Coinbase on Friday, Robinhood says: