Good morning.

It’s Friday, November 28 — the sacred national holiday known as “The Day After Thanksgiving,” when everyone pretends they totally enjoyed spending four hours explaining their life choices to relatives who still call your job “the computer thing.” Congratulations on surviving the annual family dinner: the political debates nobody asked for, and the passive-aggressive “so when are you having kids” interrogation rounds.

We’re officially on the sleigh ride to Christmas. Have a cozy weekend and enjoy the read.

Today’s stories:

• “Wicked” sequel scores massive opening weekend

• Google founders surge into richest rankings

• Campbell exec’s remarks spark PR disaster

• AI shopping assistants launch holiday race

• Wine thieves spark chaotic Virginia chase

• Superman comic sells for record millions

• U.S. parks slap tourists with surcharges

• Meta may ditch Nvidia for Google chips

• Study says brains mature at thirty-two

• YouTube tests tool to clean home feed

• Google’s new AI tool hacked instantly

  and more…

Stocks squeezed out another win on Wednesday, marking four straight days in the green as traders coasted into Thanksgiving week. The Dow added 315 points, the S&P 500 climbed 0.7%, and the Nasdaq popped 0.8% — a tidy pre-holiday rally.

AI fever did most of the lifting: Oracle jumped 4% after a fresh bullish call from Deutsche Bank, Nvidia bounced more than 1% off its recent dip, and Microsoft rose nearly 2% as the “Magnificent Seven” remembered they’re supposed to be magnificent.

Markets took Thursday off for Thanksgiving and reopened today for a half-day sprint till 1 p.m. ET.

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Meta May Ditch Nvidia for Google Chips

Nvidia stock dipped 4% after reports that Meta might start using Google’s custom AI chips instead of Nvidia’s. Meta is reportedly looking at Google’s TPUs for its data centers in 2027 and may even rent some from Google Cloud next year. Big tech drama, but in chip form. Google’s TPU business is booming, and the company says demand is rising for both its own chips and Nvidia’s GPUs. TPUs have been around since 2018 and are built specifically for AI, giving Google a handy edge when pitching them to customers like Meta. If Meta jumps ship, it’s a major win for Google and a real flex for its custom chip team. Broadcom, which helps Google design the TPUs, also climbed after the news.

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The soup guy who apparently hates soup. Campbell Soup is dealing with a PR disaster after a lawsuit claimed one of its executives called the company’s products “food for poor people” and made offensive remarks about Indian workers. The comments were allegedly recorded during a meeting about an employee’s salary, which adds a nice corporate-America flavor to the whole thing. The employee, Robert Garza, says he reported the comments to his manager, got zero encouragement to involve HR, and was then abruptly fired weeks later. The recording later aired on local TV, catching Campbell’s off guard. The executive, Martin Bally, is now on leave while the company investigates. The lawsuit is moving forward, with Campbell’s reputation simmering on low heat.

America’s parks get more expensive for international visitors. The National Park Service is rolling out an “America-first” pricing plan, slapping international tourists with an extra $100 fee to enter top U.S. parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon. Fee-free park days will now be for Americans only, turning national parks into the country’s newest exclusive club. The changes come as the Park Service deals with staff shortages, budget cuts, and revenue losses from the shutdown. Starting January 1, foreign visitors will also pay $250 for an annual pass, while U.S. residents keep their $80 rate. Tourism diplomacy is clearly taking the scenic route.

Google duo overtakes Bezos and Zuckerberg in wealth race. Alphabet’s stock has been on such an AI high this year that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin just muscled their way into the top five richest people on Earth. Page is now sitting at $276 billion, Brin is only $18 billion behind, and both basically made another country’s GDP in 2025 alone. Alphabet is up 71% this year, wildly outpacing the rest of the market. The stock surge boosted Page’s wealth by about $108 billion and Brin’s by $99 billion, pushing Bezos, Ellison, and even Zuckerberg down the billionaire leaderboard like it’s musical chairs.

$38K wine heist turns into the pettiest car chase ever. A couple tried to steal $38,000 of Romanée-Conti from a Virginia restaurant and triggered the most dramatic wine chase the Shenandoah Valley has ever seen. The sommelier got suspicious, sprinted back to the cellar, and found screw-top imposters sitting where the holy bottles once stood. Bold choice. Insulting, even. Staff immediately launched into action, joined by a diner in a Porsche because of course they did. They grabbed the woman, but the man ditched her and tore off in an SUV, leaving tire marks and the relationship in shambles. Truly no honor among thieves — especially wine thieves. The woman, Natali Ray, 56, from the UK, is now sitting in jail without bond, facing grand larceny charges. The guy drove off like a low-budget Bond villain, and the restaurant gets bragging rights for hosting the most expensive sprint in county history.

Study Says Your Brain Is a Teen Until 32

A massive new brain study says adolescence doesn’t end at 18, or 21, or even 25. According to researchers at Cambridge, your brain is basically a teenager until age 32. So yes, all those questionable life choices in your twenties suddenly make sense. Scientists scanned about 4,000 people up to age 90 and found the brain moves through five phases with major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66, and 83. Childhood runs to age 9, adolescence stretches all the way to 32, adulthood lasts until 66, early aging hits at 83, and then comes late aging. The brain is constantly rewiring, strengthening and breaking connections, and apparently vibing through phases like it’s on a cosmic mood board. The patterns help explain why mental health risks shift as we age—and why some parts of life feel chaotic while others feel stable. The study, powered by a huge dataset, shows the brain isn’t one smooth growth curve but a series of messy rewiring eras. Basically: you’re not “fully cooked” until your thirties.

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Google’s new AI tool gets hacked in under 24 hours. Google launched its new Gemini-powered coding tool, Antigravity, and within 24 hours a security researcher cracked it open like a cheap piñata. By tweaking a few settings, he created a backdoor that could spy on users, steal data, or run ransomware on both Mac and Windows. All he needed was one unlucky user to click “trust.” The flaw highlights how fast AI products are being pushed out with almost no real security hardening. Researchers say these systems feel like hacking in the late ’90s—wild, messy, and full of holes. Google is investigating, but there’s no patch yet and no setting that protects users. To make things spicier, Antigravity already had other known vulnerabilities that let malicious code rummage through a user’s files. Even cybersecurity experts admitted Google’s security team looked blindsided by how quickly Antigravity shipped. AI agents stay chaotic; hackers stay delighted.

AI shopping race begins with OpenAI and Perplexity. OpenAI and Perplexity just launched AI shopping assistants in time for holiday chaos, letting you ask their chatbots for things like “gaming laptop under $1,000” or “cheap version of this luxury coat I can’t afford.” Perplexity is leaning on its memory skills to personalize suggestions based on what it already knows about you, which is either helpful or mildly unsettling. AI-assisted shopping is expected to explode by 520% this season, but specialized startups don’t seem worried. Founders say niche platforms with better data and deeper product knowledge will still beat general-purpose chatbots that depend on whatever Bing and Google spit out. Search may be “the forgotten child” of fashion, but apparently it still has room for a few AI geniuses.

YouTube tests new tool to fix its chaotic home feed. YouTube is finally admitting its home feed is a mess. The platform is testing a new feature called “Your Custom Feed,”which lets users actually tell the algorithm what they want instead of being drowned in videos based on one accidental click. Watch two Disney clips and suddenly your feed thinks you’re a grown adult obsessed with princesses. Test users will see a new button next to “Home,” where they can type prompts like “more cooking videos” or “less cringe please,” and YouTube will adjust accordingly. It’s a more direct approach than smashing “Not Interested” 40 times a week. Other platforms are also trying to fix their chaotic feeds, with Threads and X rolling out their own customization tools. Everyone is racing to clean up the algorithm mess they created.

“Wicked: For Good” Scores a Massive $150M Opening

“Wicked: For Good” just blasted into theaters with a $150 million domestic opening, making it the second-biggest debut of 2025 and the biggest opening ever for a Broadway musical adaptation. It even beat the first “Wicked,” which honestly feels like out-singing yourself.

The only film ahead of it this year is “A Minecraft Movie”. “Wicked: For Good” also outperformed Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch,” which had a massive holiday launch. The box office is finally breathing again, thanks to witches, belting, and emerald-green nostalgia.

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Superman comic sells for a record $9.12 million. A long-lost copy of Superman No. 1 just sold for $9.12 million, making it the most expensive comic book ever. Three brothers found it in their late mother’s attic, buried under dusty newspapers and enough cobwebs to qualify as a horror set. She had always said she owned valuable comics, but like every mom warning about “something important in the house,” nobody believed her until they cleaned it out. Heritage Auctions flew out to inspect the find and confirmed it was the real deal: a 1939 Superman No. 1 in shockingly great condition, one of only a few known to exist.

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