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🗓️ 9 January 2025
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Group Chat News is back with the hottest stories of the week including the devastating California wildfires, Whatnot raises 265 million in funding, eBay shares soar after Meta allows listings on Facebook Marketplace in USA and Europe, Trump announces 20 Billion foreign investment to build new USA data centers, Zuck announces Dana White as a Meta board member, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denies sexual abuse claims made by his sister, Meta ends its censorship policy, and everyones favorite WINNERS, LOSERS, and CONTENT.
Timeline of What Was Discussed:
· The devastating fires in LA. (0:00)
· We are DONE with incompetence. (11:52)
· Rebuilding your life. (16:50)
· Solutions to the fire issues in California. (20:25)
· Stay safe out there Kathy’s. (23:04)
· The future is livestream shopping. (25:50)
· eBay x Facebook Marketplace. (33:19)
· Power Trump move. (36:20)
· Serious claim against Sam Altman. (40:45)
· Zuck’s BIG moves. (43:03)
· Winners, Losers, and Content. (46:46)
· Reading the YouTube comments. (55:32)
· Group Chat ‘Kathy’ Shout Outs. (56:20)
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· Livestream shopping app Whatnot raises $265M, pinning valuation at nearly $5B
· EBay shares soar after Meta allows listings on Facebook Marketplace in U.S., Europe
· Trump announces $20 billion foreign investment to build new U.S. data centers
· OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Denies Sexual-Abuse Claims Made by Sister
· Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch
· UFC CEO Dana White joins Meta's board of directors : NPR
· LiAngelo Ball Is the First Big Rap Story of 2025
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0:00.0 | All right, Kathy's, we are here alive and well out of Los Angeles, California. |
0:07.0 | If you've been watching the news or been on X, you will probably have heard that there are really, really devastating fires out here in Southern California. |
0:20.0 | Specifically, if you don't know Los Angeles, |
0:24.8 | so like where our office sits, we're in a high-rise, basically in Mid-Wilshire. It's pretty much |
0:31.3 | adjacent to West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. And so our office has a view of basically all of Hollywood Hills downtown L.A. and then the west side of L.A. |
0:42.3 | and just to give you a visual or audible map, the west side of L.A. is where the palisades are. |
0:52.9 | And that's basically neighboring to Santa Monica and |
0:56.6 | Malibu. So it's Santa Monica, Palisades, then Malibu. It's all off of PCH and then it goes inland. |
1:03.1 | And so if you're watching the news, the Palisades is, you know, a really beautiful, rich |
1:10.8 | in history community that, you know, a lot of people that we know |
1:15.7 | that we grew up with have homes in that area. There's a lot of great schools, great restaurants. |
1:22.5 | It's such an incredible neighborhood. And the fire basically first started there and then kind of spread and spread |
1:30.3 | into other parts of that area like Temesco Canyon, which you've ever been on a hike. It's one of the |
1:36.0 | most beautiful hikes in Los Angeles. And then it's kind of been seeping a little bit toward |
1:41.6 | Santa Monica. And then so that was the first fire that kind of happened. |
1:46.7 | And then it jumped PCH. |
1:49.5 | So if you've been a tourist in LA, Dukes is gone. |
1:54.2 | Yeah. |
1:54.8 | Maestro's is gone. |
1:56.2 | Yeah. |
1:57.5 | Rosenthal Winery is gone. |
1:59.3 | Real Inn, I think. |
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