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Jobs' Legacy: AI Backfires, Red Lobster Struggles, Iran Blacked Out

Iran's higher education system faced severe disruptions in January, with a near-total internet blackout impacting universities, echoing digital isolation concerns from a 2019 outage, according to Nature News. Meanwhile, in the business world, Red Lobster's new CEO, Damola Adamolekun, is charting a course to revitalize the seafood chain, and AI's impact on the workforce is being studied, with researchers at UC Berkeley warning of potential burnout, as reported by Fortune.

The internet blackout in Iran, which began on January 8th, was one of the most severe disruptions to the country's higher education system since the 1980 cultural revolution, according to Nature News. The blackout raised concerns about digital isolation, similar to a five-day internet outage in 2019.

In the business sector, Red Lobster's new CEO, Damola Adamolekun, is planning to shrink the restaurant's footprint and streamline menus to improve the company's financial standing, according to Fortune. Adamolekun, who previously helped revive P.F. Changs, expressed optimism about the future, stating, "I think this can be the greatest comeback in the history of the restaurant industry."

Simultaneously, a study by UC Berkeley researchers, published in the Harvard Business Review, revealed that AI is increasing worker productivity but may also be contributing to burnout. The study, conducted over eight months with 40 in-depth interviews at a 200-person U.S. tech firm, found that employees using AI tools increased both the amount and variety of work they could complete, even without mandatory AI adoption, according to Fortune.

In other news, a commencement address by Steve Jobs at Stanford University, delivered on June 12, 2005, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The speech, which has been viewed over 120 million times, inspired an unlikely NBA title comeback for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016, according to Hacker News.

Finally, a reporter's notebook from the Winter Olympics in Italy highlighted the impact of Ilia Malinin's skating performances on the crowd, noting the collective roar and the effect it had on spectators, as reported by NPR Politics.

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