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Jevons paradox is the latest jargon you need to know to signal you’re smart on AI. In the wake of DeepSeek turning the entire industry on its head — and wiping nearly $600 billion off of the market cap of Nvidia in a single day — one new phrase has become table stakes for anyone wading into the DeepSeek discourse: Jevons paradox, with traffic to its associated Wikipedia page soaring this week. So what is it? Read on: https://lnkd.in/eKAvc9FZ

Bad news for bakers and brunch enthusiasts: the sky-high egg prices you’re seeing on supermarket shelves are only expected to keep rising. The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Price Outlook for 2025, released Friday, predicted that egg prices will increase by more than 20% in the year ahead — which is significant, since food prices overall are expected to climb by 2.2%, a rate similar to that observed over the past year. That prediction, presumably made at least a few weeks ago, is already coming true: the latest USDA price report reveals that wholesale prices for a carton of large, Grade A eggs has soared to $6.57 per dozen — the highest on record. Full story: https://lnkd.in/e_sgPjxp

Nvidia suffered from a real case of the Mondays yesterday. After a year of astonishing momentum, the chipmaker saw some of it reversed, with almost $600 billion wiped from its market cap, in the biggest one-day monetary loss for a single stock in market history. Although shedding 17% in a single session obviously isn’t great for investors, many analysts are characterizing the stock’s drop as a “golden buying opportunity.” So we were curious: does Nvidia stock tend to bounce back after a dreadful day? Read on: https://lnkd.in/eScYFncc

Since the US Supreme Court legalized states to allow sports betting in 2018, it’s no surprise that millions of Americans have gone on to bet on their favorite team. What is surprising, however, is just how big the industry has become already. Indeed, legal betting is now engrained in US sports culture, with leagues and players, franchises and networks, all keen to partner with leading sportsbooks. Per data collected by Legal Sports Report, Americans wagered more than $140 billion in 2024. https://lnkd.in/ehvtTqYS

Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company, and Spotify, the world’s most popular audio streaming service, yesterday announced a new, multi-year agreement for recorded music and music publishing — sending shares in Universal Music up 7% in early European trading on Monday morning. The agreement will establish a direct license between UMG’s publishing arm and Spotify’s product portfolio to usher in the “next era of streaming innovation”. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/e3ScB2Ft

EA shares are down 17% in premarket trading after the video game company slashed its full-year guidance for bookings, citing the underperformance of fantasy role-play game “Dragon Age” and “EA SPORTS FC 25” — the company’s rebrand of what was its crown jewel, the FIFA series, and its 32nd soccer game since 1993. In its preliminary Q3 results, EA said that net bookings for the full year will now be between $7 billion and $7.15 billion, falling short of the expected $7.5 billion to $7.8 billion it had outlined previously. What this might signal more broadly, though, is that hype around one of the most popular sporting video games of all time — which was also a cash cow for Electronic Arts — is fading. Full story: https://lnkd.in/gJiq5t95

Social-media giants tell the EU they’ll totally increase efforts to tackle hate speech, for sure, getting right on that, etc: https://lnkd.in/gsv2rZBJ

Home prices soared in all 50 major metro areas in December. Per Redfin's latest report, the median US home price jumped 6.3% year-over-year in December, with prices rising in all 50 of the most populous metros—the first time that has happened since May 2022's pandemic homebuying boom. What’s most remarkable about the continued rise in house prices is that it’s happening despite the fact that we’re no longer in the low interest rate era that dominated much of the 2012-2022 decade. Full story: https://lnkd.in/gBCK57fY

Even though Netflix won't break out quarterly subscriber numbers going forward — sad news for chart-makers, happier news for its competition — the streamer just posted its final batch of record-breaking figures for the last quarter of 2024, and has now crossed the 300 million subscriber mark. We obviously couldn't resist charting the extra 19 million viewers who signed up to watch "Squid Game 2", a couple of NFL games, and one of the dullest boxing matches of all time! Read here: https://lnkd.in/en6CzTvB

Vail’s Epic Pass carved a fresh path for the wider industry — subscription skiing — but demand is showing signs of waning. Last Thursday, Vail disclosed that it saw 0.3% fewer total skier visits last year, with sales of the company’s all-important subscription product, the Epic Pass, also dropping 2%. The company has gone all in on “subscription skiing” since introducing the Epic Pass in 2008, with passholders accounting for 75% of total visits to Vail resorts in 2024. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eUE-Pt9t