Disney scraps a nearly $1 billion project. Can you guess where? Yep, it’s in Florida, where the company has caught flak from Gov. Ron DeSantis. Citing “changing business conditions” (but not DeSantis explicitly), Disney parks chair Josh D’Amaro announced that Disney was canceling plans for a new corporate campus in Orlando that would have moved more than 2,000 jobs to the area. Disney also said it was shutting down its luxury hotel at Walt Disney World, the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. These projects were the brainchildren of former CEO Bob Chapek.

 ChatGPT gets its own app. OpenAI released an app of its chatbot for the iPhone in the US and said a version for green texters is on the way. The ChatGPT app functions similarly to the existing browser design (free, no ads), but OpenAI hopes that by making ChatGPT easily accessible on your phone, you’ll use it more—and Google Search less. In other AI news, Meta, for the first time, revealed the extensive infrastructure it’s been building to support its artificial intelligence ambitions, including a “family” of chips.

 More Americans are high at work. Positive marijuana tests among US workers reached a 25-year high last year, according to Quest Diagnostics. The drug-testing lab screened more than 6 million employees for pot following on-the-job accidents, and 4.3% came back positive, a bump from 3.9% in 2021. Quest attributes the jump in positive tests to the wave of marijuana legalization efforts across the country but warned that getting high on the job, which can slow reaction time and impact memory, can “have a major impact on safety at work.”

JFK’s nephew, the author of Moneyball, and a robotic bull all walk into an event space—and it’s not that crowded.

The third annual bitcoin industry conference is underway in Miami, with less than half as many attendees as last year’s 35,000-person turnout. The three-day event—with speeches from presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and writer Michael Lewis—is likely drawing smaller crowds because of “crypto winter”: the recent crypto failures (shoutout FTX) dampening enthusiasm for digital coins.

Rewind to the pandemic…and Miami was going all-in on crypto. It built a Transformer-looking version of Wall Street’s Charging Bull, its bitcoin-salaried mayor labeled his jurisdiction the “crypto capital of the world,” and the city even rolled out a (now defunct) digital currency, MiamiCoin.

Fast forward to 2023…and the crypto fever might have passed. Still, Will Smith’s favorite city is showing it doesn’t need bitcoin to thrive.

• Though spiking mortgage rates took a bite out of home prices across the country this year, Miami-Dade County’s median home price grew by about 5%.
• Compared to other American downtowns, Miami offices have a relatively low vacancy rate, largely thanks to Florida’s low corporate tax.
• It has Jimmy Butler.

Party in the city where the heat is on: Miami’s crypto craze may be winding down, but business leaders predict tech startups and traditional financial companies will keep flocking to the 305.—ML

Ketchup hasn’t seen innovation like this since the first brave soul hit the 57. Kraft Heinz’s newest invention, the Heinz Remix, is a dispenser that lets you get lost in the customization of your sauce.

How it works: First, you choose one of four base sauces—ketchup, ranch, 57 sauce, or BBQ. Then, you can select flavor “enhancers” such as jalapeño, smoky chipotle, buffalo, and mango, and decide the level of intensity. Similar to the Coca-Cola Freestyle machines you see in movie theaters, the Heinz Remix will dispense whatever deranged concoction you can come up with.

Will everything faintly taste like buffalo? We’ll have to see. The food giant will demo a prototype machine at this weekend’s National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago and intends to start putting the machines in restaurants as soon as this year.

The business case: Kraft Heinz isn’t just launching the Remix so teens can make the ultimate graveyard sauce to drink on dares. It’s hoping the machine will help identify what new sauce combos consumers actually want—and add more fuel to its growing food service division. The company has recently made big investments outside your fridge. It closed a deal to put Lunchables in school cafeterias and released a line of professional mayo for chefs.—MM

Stat: We weren’t sure it was possible, but there is an entertainment product making more money than Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. The video game Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sold 10 million copies globally in its first three days, generating more sales (an estimated $700 million) than any movie’s box-office debut this year and more than Swift’s romp around the country, per Axios. Tears of the Kingdom could ultimately unseat Hogwarts Legacy as the best-selling video game of 2023.

Quote: “Next year will probably be my last year.”

Tennis legend Rafael Nadal said a hip injury is forcing him to pull out of the French Open for the first time in nearly 20 years and that he’ll likely retire from the sport in 2024. Nadal is synonymous with the clay at Roland Garros—he’s won an astonishing 112 of the 115 matches he’s played at the French Open. Over his career, Nadal has hoisted 22 major trophies, tied for the most ever in men’s tennis with Novak Djokovic.

Read: The last gamble of Tokyo Joe. (Chicago magazine)

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 Vision myths busted: Experts described the habits that help (and hurt) your vision.

 My hull will go on: Take a 3D tour of the Titanic’s shipwreck, which just got its first full-sized digital scan. Plus, here’s the Titanic compared to a modern cruise ship.

 Designers—you’ll love this: A YouTuber redesigns Oslo’s transit diagram.

 Trailers galore: Here’s the first trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon (the new Scorcese flick starring Leo and De Niro). Plus, the newest Mortal Kombat.

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