- United Airlines thought, “Let’s commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11 in Denver with a low-altitude flyover featuring a Boeing 777.” Everyone else thought … no. It has now been canceled.
- What do Flock cameras and data centers have in common? Both thrived largely with support from conservatives, and now both have quickly lost that support as politicians re-read the electoral tea leaves. Flock surveillance cameras went from having absolute support from law-and-order conservatives to having the Republican governors of Texas and Florida both issue orders essentially banning the cameras on state property. Meanwhile, conservative politicians who have previously supported data centers are rushing to denounce them after seeing polling data that voters on both the left and right oppose them.
- Engineers at Anthropic think that there is a greater than 10% chance that AI will kill all humans within the next decade. But, hey, think of all the fun you can have from the stock-option proceeds in those 10 years.
- Meanwhile, the unintended consequences of AI are everywhere. The New York Times reports that thousands of Kenyans who made a living writing essays for U.S. college students have been displaced as students find even more affordable ways to cheat.
- College football has become the latest victim of unusually hot temperatures. The Colorado School of Mines and Washburn canceled overtime of their game and ended it in a 16-16 tie because of the 107-degree heat index, and the University of South Carolina and Kent State agreed to shave 10 minutes off their game because the heat index hit 106. Most distressing, a University of Iowa student and Hawkeye Marching Band member died after suffering cardiac arrest while performing in 94-degree heat.
- Barry Morphew, the man who has now been charged twice with killing his wife Suzanne, was on a $3 million surety bond that only allowed him to travel away from home for very specific circumstances. Unfortunately for Morphew, he apparently was violating the terms of that bond when he was involved in a minor traffic accident. The other party started recording Morphew when he refused to give his name and tried to offer $300 in cash to settle the issue. He drove away when that failed, and he has since been charged with a slew of things ranging from careless driving to leaving the scene of an accident to failure to report an accident. And the judge in his murder case ordered him jailed until he can come up with a $10 million bond.
- The Colorado Rockies were the first team to be eliminated from the MLB playoffs. Now the fight to avoid 100 losses for the fourth season in a row begins.
- It’s official – LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed golf league that sought to compete with the PGA, filed bankruptcy, and some of the golfers who abandoned the PGA for LIV are owed millions of dollars that they may never see.
- Colorado has reintroduced 25 wolves since 2023, and 19 wolves have now died. Colorado Parks and Wildlife killed three in the past month alone when they kept attacking livestock. There are probably a couple dozen left that have resulted from breeding, but experts are concerned that it is so few that inbreeding will now become a problem.
- Will you get your “Trump dividend?” Sure, right after you get your “tariff refund” and your “DOGE dividend” that President Donald Trump previously promised.
Who had the worst week?
- Linhart PR has promoted intern Kierra Vanevenhoven to Account Associate.
- Malen Yantis Public Relations added Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort & Spa as a client.
- Fortune profiled Bret Clement, co-founder of Denver‘s Clement | Peterson PR, as he transitions from public relations to teaching at DSST: College View High School.
- Western Michigan University got utterly screwed this weekend by officials who added one final play to the game after time clearly had expired. Sure enough, that allowed the University of Michigan to complete a Hail Mary pass to defeat WMU. WMU head coach Lance Taylor had every reason to scream and shout, but he embraced the idea that you are never sorry later for having taken the high road, and now everyone outside of Ann Arbor is rooting for WMU.
- Max Scheinblum at BusinessDen researched the top CEO compensation in Colorado, and you can set any concerns aside – they are doing well. In fact, you have to go 16 deep before you hit the first sub-$10 million CEO. Derek Chang at Liberty Media tops the list at $39.3 million, followed by Robert Painter of Trimble and Bracken Darrell of VF Corp, who both netted approximately $19 million.
- Inspired by President Donald Trump‘s actions to rename Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico, “South Park” producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced they will follow suit and rename their show to “South America.“
- As Route 66 turns 100 years old, the scenic, slow path across the U.S. is enjoying a resurgence in travelers, led in part by European motorcyclists looking for the Americana they first learned about from movies.
