Early work for the Samueli family’s ambitious OCVibe development surrounding Honda Center is drawing national attention to the Anaheim Ducks, and the differences between the city’s pro hockey and baseball franchises.
“One team changed its uniforms to orange to embrace its home county, calls itself the Anaheim Ducks, and is in the process of constructing an entertainment district that will generate revenue in the community,” noted a Jan. 28 feature in The Athletic, the sports-focused division of the NY Times.
“Then there’s the other team — the tenants right next door who claim to represent a city 25 miles away,” it said of the Los Angeles Angels, who 20 years ago saw owner Arte Moreno rename the team to emphasize its questionable LA ties.
While neither team has fielded a contender in several years, “outside the lines, one team has long won over its local fans, while the other has left many of its most loyal supporters wondering why fans in a city 25 miles away seemingly matter more,” the feature said.
Color Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey unimpressed with the hype surrounding Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, whose reports of early progress caused a big tech sell-off on Jan. 27.
A recent appearance on Fox Business’ “Claman Countdown” saw the 31-year-old question the reporting that DeepSeek spent only $5 million to train its AI model, with results comparable to much better-funded chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
“They put out that number specifically to harm U.S. companies,” Luckey said. “You had a lot of useful idiots in U.S. media just mindlessly reporting that that’s the case, and neither China, nor the media, nor DeepSeek has any kind of incentive to correct the record as a lot of U.S. companies like Nvidia crashed to the tunes of hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Much of Costa Mesa-based Anduril’s work is designed to counter the threat of China’s advanced military technology.
“We can recognize that Chinese AI is a real competitive threat without losing our minds over it and falling for (Chinese Communist Party) propaganda,” Luckey told Fox Business.
U.S. sales of cottage cheese have increased more than 50% over the past five years, according to research cited by the Wall Street Journal in a Jan. 10 feature noting the food’s re-emergence, as health conscious-consumers have taken to the product to “boost their protein intake, lose weight, add muscle and extend their lives.”
Leading the charge for the industry is Irvine’s Good Culture, which has raised $85M in funding since its founding in 2015 and has seen sales rise 80% in 2023 and 70% in 2024, thanks to a focus on innovation and better-tasting products than was the norm in prior decades, when the product fell out of favor and started losing market share to yogurt.
Said CEO Jesse Merrill to the WSJ: “I wanted to make cottage cheese sexy.”
