Headliners

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• U.S. shoots down 'high-altitude object' over Alaskan airspace, White House says (NBC)

• US developed method to track China’s spy balloon fleet within last year, sources say (CNN)

• U.S. Poised to Blacklist Chinese Companies Involved in Balloon Program (WSJ)

• ‘Plausible’ Xi didn’t know about balloon: China panel chair (Politico)

• What Recession? Some Economists See Chances of a Growth Rebound. (NYT)

• Britain's economy showed zero growth in the final three months of 2022 - enough for it to avoid entering a recession for now - but faces tough prospects in 2023 as households continue to wrestle with double-digit inflation. (Reuters)

• FBI conducts 'consensual' search on Mike Pence's Indiana home (NPR)

• FBI search of Pence's home uncovers more documents (CBS)

• FEC orders Santos to formally declare his 2024 candidacy or ‘disavow’ post-midterm fundraising (CNN)

• Santos says Sinema offered him words of encouragement. Sinema’s office says they never spoke. (WP)

• Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is once again dogged by controversy involving dogs. Santos was reportedly charged with theft by deception in 2017 in Pennsylvania’s Amish Country after a series of bad checks were written in his name to dog breeders in the area. Meanwhile, a House Democratic lawmaker introduced a resolution to expel Santos from Congress, a step that GOP leaders have so far been unwilling to take. [HuffPost]

• New arrests show why the coming MAGA house attacks on the FBI endanger law and order (The Hill)

• President Joe Biden's administration is developing a sweeping bill that would revamp the country's asylum systemto speed up the resolution of claims in large-scale processing centers at the border with Mexico, two U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials said. (Reuters)

• The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret — Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions. (Wired)

• The people onscreen are fake. The disinformation is real. (NYT)

• ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (New Yorker)

• What ChatGPT Can’t Teach My Writing Students (Atlantic)

• Google v Microsoft: who will win the AI chatbot race? (Guardian)

• The End of Grading (Wired)

• Apple has avoided the tech layoff wave that hit Google and Amazon because it made one key decision (Fortune)

• More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers stopped spending on platform, data show (CNN)

• Moldova's prime minister resigns and government collapses amid ongoing crises (Euronews)

• Russia steps up attacks in Ukraine with broad bombardments (AP)

• Ukraine’s rocket campaign reliant on U.S. precision targeting, officials say (WP)

• Putin Faces Mountain of Debt as Ukraine War Puts Economy Back 25 Years (Newsweek)

• Recovering “Hidden Knowledge” – How an Asthma Medication Could Restore Memories (SciTechDaily)

• Officials Brag That U.S. Military Has All The Different Kinds Of Guns (The Onion)