🗞️Kanye West takes out ad in the WSJ and apologizes

January 26th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• Kanye West purchased a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal apologizing for his past antisemitic remarks, denying that he is a Nazi or antisemite, and expressed regret and a commitment to treatment and change…in the letter, he linked his behavior to a car-crash brain injury and a later bipolar type‑1 diagnosis, while also saying he experienced a months-long manic episode in 2025

• President Trump announced that he is raising tariffs on South Korean autos, lumber, pharmaceuticals, and other reciprocal goods from 15% to 25% because South Korea is “not living up to its deal with the U.S."

• Former Portland Trail Blazer, Chris Dudley, has announced his candidacy for governor of Oregon as a Republican

• President Trump announced that Border Czar, Tom Homan, will travel to Minnesota to oversee ICE operations amid protests over recent fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal agents…Trump also spoke with Minnesota Governor Walz today and described the call as productive

• Skylight, a TikTok rival built on the open-source AT Protocol, has surged past 380,000 total users with 150,000+ uploaded videos, adding 20,000 new signups over the weekend amid TikTok's U.S. ownership change to Oracle/Silver Lake and outages

• OpenAI is charging premium advertising rates of around $60 per 1,000 impressions (triple Meta's typical pricing) for its ChatGPT rollout on free and Go tiers

• Microsoft revealed its MAIA 200 second‑generation AI inference chip, it’s aimed at cutting inference costs and power use in data centers

• Reports have stated that The Washington Post is bracing for “massive layoffs” with internal chatter that the entire sports desk could be shut down and the foreign desk may be facing deep cuts as management looks to cut costs…read more here 

• Gold and silver continue to soar as they have both again hit all-time highs with gold rising above $5,000 an ounce and silver reaching $115 an ounce

• DOW up .64% / S&P up .50%

• Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is not pursuing a free trade agreement with China…his comments follow President Trump’s threat to slap 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if they “make a deal with China”

• EU regulators have launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s AI company xAI and its Grok system after it generated large volumes of non‑consensual sexualized deepfake images on X

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