🗞️Big changes coming to Netflix

May 7th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• Netflix is rolling out its first major homepage redesign in over a decade, featuring a cleaner, more modern look with prominent shortcuts at the top, and real-time AI-powered recommendations tailored to individuals’ interests to help users quickly find what to watch…the update will launch globally “in the coming weeks and months”

• During his speech at the Munich Leaders Meeting in Washington, Vice President Vance said that the Trump administration believes Russia is "asking for too much" to end its war with Ukraine

• A federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to transfer Tufts Ph.D. student, Rumeysa Ozturk, from a detention facility in Louisiana to Vermont after she was detained in March for what the government said was engaging in activities that support Hamas

• Dr. Casey Means has been nominated to be the next Surgeon General of the United States

• The Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has announced that the Fed has decided to leave interest rates unchanged…this marks the 3rd meeting in a row that interest rates have remained unchanged

• The U.K. and the U.S. are close to agreeing on a trade deal that would lessen the impact of Trump’s tariffs by granting lower-tariffs for British car and steel exports

• Treasury Secretary Bessent will travel to Switzerland where trade talks with China will begin Saturday

• Disney has announced they will launch their first theme park in the Middle East in Abu Dhabi

• 25% of Americans are using buy-now, pay-later services for groceries, compared to 14% in 2024, per Fortune

• DOW up .70% / S&P up .43%

• The process to select the next pope officially began today as 133 cardinals entered the conclave in the Sistine Chapel to begin the election process…at days end black smoke blew over the Vatican to signal that no candidate received the required two-thirds majority of cardinal electors to become the next pope, the process will continue tomorrow

Plus: A interesting look at which countries invest the most in Research and Development

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