Dave Lozo

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Writer at Freelance

Newsletter and Social Writer at Morning Brew

Articles

How a ‘golden share’ may push through a steel deal

1 week ago | morningbrew.com | Dave Lozo

Less than a week after President Trump suggested he was endorsing a deal to resolve the saga of Nippon Steel’s $14.1 billion takeover of US Steel (previously blocked as a security risk by President Biden’s administration), Nikkei reported that the US government could receive a “golden share” as a condition for approving the “partnership.”What is a golden share, other than a play a coach might call in an Air Bud movie?
Elon Musk wants to get back to business

1 week ago | morningbrew.com | Dave Lozo

Less than a week after pledging to scale back his government duties to become “super focused” on running his companies, Elon Musk took a respite from posting quote tweets with exclamation points to oversee the launch of SpaceX’s Starship rocket last night. The ninth flight of the 400-foot rocket got farther than the prior two tests, but ended in fiery failure for the third straight time.
Having an affair? Don’t let Claude 4 find out

1 week ago | morningbrew.com | Dave Lozo

“Claude blackmailed an employee” may sound like dialogue from a mandatory HR workplace training video set in France, but it’s actually a real problem encountered during test runs of Anthropic’s latest AI model. Anthropic considers the two Claude models released on Thursday, Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, the new standards for “coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents,” and said that Opus 4 exceeded Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, OpenAI’s o3 reasoning, and GPT-4.1 models in coding duties.
Get ready for a ‘Stitchpossible’ weekend

2 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Dave Lozo

Ethan Hunt will accept a truly impossible assignment this weekend—defeating a mischievous Disney alien at the US box office. Disney’s live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch is expected to obliterate Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning over Memorial Day weekend, with the family movie projected to take home as much as $140 million and the Tom Cruise franchise’s (possible) finale looking at $80 million in domestic ticket sales.
Senators unite over ending taxes on tips

2 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Dave Lozo

When it comes to taxes, even members of the same party can struggle to agree, as the fight over the specifics of President Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill in the House shows. But on Tuesday, the Senate voted 100–0 to pass the No Tax On Tips Act, a stand-alone measure similar to one of that bill’s most popular provisions. Eliminating taxes on tips has provoked more agreement among both parties than the expulsion of former Rep. George Santos ever since Trump promised it on the campaign trail.
Trump’s ‘beautiful’ tax bill is closer to reality

2 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Dave Lozo

While you were sleeping or perhaps enjoying an emotionally charged episode of The Last of Us on Sunday night, the House Budget Committee advanced President Trump’s previously stalled “big, beautiful” tax and spending legislation, setting up a House vote as soon as Thursday. What’s in it now?
Dick’s is buying Foot Locker

3 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Dave Lozo

Dick’s Sporting Goods will spend $2.4 billion to acquire rival Foot Locker, hoping to boost its international footprint, attract a younger and more urban customer base, and corner the market on striped referee shirts Nike products.
Why Trump is seeking a new plane of existence

3 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Dave Lozo

President Trump is considering using a luxury Boeing 747-8, gifted from Qatar, to serve as a temporary Air Force One, despite bipartisan concerns that it would pose security risks and cost a lot of time and money to militarize the aircraft for official use. What happened to the usual Air Force One? Boeing, the supplier of presidential aircraft since the Franklin D.
Foreign tourists are shunning the US

3 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Dave Lozo

Contentious foreign relations, a rising dollar, and fears about visiting a country that has detained overseas visitors are resulting in the US hemorrhaging tourism money like it’s Baby Billy’s production of Teenjus. The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) projects the US to lose $12.5 billion in travel revenue in 2025—a 7% dip from last year and a 22.5% drop from 2019, when international spending reached a record $217.4 billion.
Working from home isn’t the key to happiness

3 weeks ago | morningbrew.com | Dave Lozo

Just like Rose when she set off on her Titanic voyage, a recent poll shows remote employees are engaged but deeply unhappy. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report revealed that people who can work from their couch (31%) have higher levels of engagement, defined as enthusiasm for their work and connection to the organization, than their hybrid (23%) and fully in-office (19%) counterparts.