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Taylor Swift’s concert economics, the newest weight loss drug, and Spirit Airlines sinks: Business news roundup

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Taylor Swift’s concert economics, the newest weight loss drug, and Spirit Airlines sinks: Business news roundup

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The offices of Novo Nordisk in Copenhagen, Denmark.Photo: Tom Little (Reuters)

A frosty receptionPhoto: Scott Eisen (Getty Images)

Heading towards the high-end.Photo: Sarah Meyssonnier (Reuters)

Super Micro Computer has provided server management software and storage systems for decades. Photo: Ann Wang (Reuters)

Super Micro Computer’s stock soared above the clouds after the S&P Dow Jones indices awarded it a coveted spot in the S&P 500.

After the news broke early on Monday, the 31-year-old server and computer infrastructure company hit a record rally, with shares popping more than 25% in trading, adding over $220 per share. Super Micro — which trades as SMCI on the Nasdaq — currently has a market capitalization of roughly $63 billion. The median market cap for S&P 500 companies is $33.7 billion.

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Salesforce CEO and cofounder Marc Benioff has bought hundreds of acres of land in Hawaii since 2000.Photo: Denis Balibouse (Reuters)

Salesforce CEO and cofounder Marc Benioff has donated $150 million to a group of medical organizations in Hawaii, he said Tuesday, one of the largest private gifts in the state’s history.

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An early clinical trial found that Novo Nordisk’s new pill helped users lose an average of 13% of body weight after 12 weeks.Image: Mario Tama (Getty Images)

Novo Nordisk stock surged Thursday morning, reaching an all-time high and surpassing Tesla’s market capitalization. The Denmark-based pharmaceutical giant known for its diabetes and weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, is now the world’s 12th most valuable company by market cap.

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If you’re a Subway franchisee then you better get with the times or find yourself a new business to run. Restaurant Business reports that Subway CEO John Chidsey recently told franchisees at a company conference that they should remodel their restaurants or part ways with the company entirely.

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Elon MuskImage: Gonzalo Fuentes (Reuters)

Elon Musk is back at it again. The Tesla CEO and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, aimed at McKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, on Wednesday in reply to a tweet criticizing her philanthropy. An X user who Musk often replies to complained that Scott donates money to organizations that deal with “issues of race and/or gender,” and said her foundation is “the ultimate expression of the most awful group in the US.”

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Current AI text-to-video generators are still nascent, but many art generators are capable of making some interesting, if not all, unique images.Gif: Runway.ml

Of all the many, many ways armchair philosophers have come to define art and the act of human expression, AI-generated images don’t have much in relation. There is certainly skill in knowing the correct type of prompt to get the results you want, but there’s no real intent behind an image. If the AI is the “artist,” how can any human claim the generated output as their own?

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Source : Quartz

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