Biggest CO2 spike ever, billionaire corporate nations, GenZ should proxy vote

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1. Scientists worry about biggest CO₂ spike ever recorded

2. Montana Court Dismisses Youth-led Lawsuit Challenging Trump Executive Orders Boosting Fossil Fuels

1. While the court found it plausible that the Trump administration’s efforts to increase the extraction and use of fossil fuels and other actions that suppress climate science and undermine renewable energy would cause grave harm to the health and wellbeing of children, it determined that it is powerless to stop them, as that would tread into the realm of policymaking reserved for Congress

3. International deal to cut shipping emissions falters under U.S. pressure

1. The world's largest maritime nations had been deliberating on adopting regulations to move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels to slash emissions. But U.S. President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia and other countries vowed to fight any global tax on shipping emissions.

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1. Billionaire boss of South Korean construction giant is encouraging his workers to have children with a $75,000 bonus

1. In addition to the childbirth incentive, Lee Joong-keun, the founder and chairman of Booyoung Group is reportedly already trying to ease the financial burden on parents by helping out with college tuition for employees’ children, medical expenses for direct family members, and child allowances

2. Nestlé is laying off over 16,000 employees under its new CEO—and says a key motivator is ‘automation’

3. Gen Z’s misery is real: Most workers in this economy lack a voice and are stuck in low-quality jobs, a massive Gates-backed study finds

4. Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

5. Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force

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1. Glass Lewis to end shareholder vote recommendations amid ESG criticism

2. CEOs are turning into influencers

3. Sanae Takaichi elected as Japan's first female prime minister

4. ‘Sad, if not damning’: Cathie Wood blasts the proxy firms who say Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package is just too rich

1. “Index funds do no fundamental research, yet dominate institutional voting. Index-based investing is a form of socialism. Our investment system is broken.”

AI Speed Round

1. OpenAI Blocks Videos of Martin Luther King Jr. After Racist Depictions

2. Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says ‘so much of the internet is dead’—and the rise of bots and ‘quasi-AI, LinkedIn slop’ killed it

3. Sex could become the next big business opportunity for AI companies

4. Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands

5. Meta Employee Creates AI App That Deepfakes the Dream Vacation You Couldn’t Afford

6. Walmart’s deal with ChatGPT should worry every ecommerce small business: Your website is living on borrowed time in the age of AI

7. Meta is asking Facebook users to give its AI access to their entire camera roll

8. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says AI will eliminate jobs and ‘people should stop sticking their head in the sand’

9. The real danger of AI in education isn't cheating--it's dependency on Big Tech algorithms, a business professor warns

An ex-OpenAI researcher’s study of a million-word ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly ‘AI psychosis’ can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardrails