Madison Malone Kircher, Associate Editor at New York Mag's Select All, discusses President Trump's meeting with the video gaming industry.
The meeting included three Congressman, including Florida's Marco Rubio and several gaming executives. We discuss whether President Trump's recent rhetoric around violence and video games is a way for him to avoid comprehensive gun reform.
We dig into the video gaming industry and the ratings they place on games and whether they are doing enough to keep dangerous games out of the hands of small children. Will this meeting result in a reduction of violence in video games? That remains to be seen.
An independent watchdog within the IRS reports that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases. And National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins says those delays are “unconscionable.” Erin M. Collins said in the report released Wednesday that overall the 2024 filing season went smoothly, though IRS delays in resolving identity theft victim assistance cases are worsening. It took nearly 19 months to resolve self-reported identity theft cases as of January, and Wednesday's report states that now it takes 22 months to resolve these cases.
Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $2 trillion in market value for the first time in afternoon trading on Wednesday. The push higher for Amazon’s stock market valuation comes a little more than a week after Nvidia hit $3 trillion and briefly became the most valuable company on Wall Street. Nvidia’s chips are used to power many AI application and its valuation has soared as a result. Amazon has also been making big investments in AI as global interest has grown in the technology. Most of the company’s focus has been on business-focused products.
Climate change doesn’t just mean more extreme weather – it also leads to billions of dollars in lost productivity, tourism, and stresses infrastructure.
