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- Elon’s return to office.
- Big Meat’s inauguration payoff.
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- How AI became your new creditor.
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TODAY'S NUGGETS
💼 Go back to work, Elon. A collection of major pension funds — which together hold about $950 billion in Americans’ retirement assets, including in Tesla stock — are asking Elon Musk to show up to work. They want Musk to dedicate his time to his electric vehicle company for at least 40 hours a week, noting the current “crisis” requires Musk’s “full-time attention.” Tesla is dealing with dwindling sales and a public relations windstorm brought on by Musk’s unpopular stint in Washington, driving the company’s stock prices down 17 percent from their peak last December.
