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Happy start of the Sundance Film Festival, Future Party. This will be the final fest in Park City, Utah — a bittersweet moment for many of us here at TFP — but we’re planning to make it count. Check this space tomorrow for the coolest events to hit between watching great films and enjoying the slopes. We’ve got you covered.

Netflix announced that its reboot of the talent-competition show Star Search now has a live-voting feature directly on the platform.

The Big Picture: Netflix has been ramping up its live offerings over the past couple of years, from reality-show reunions and Christmas Day NFL games to celebrity boxing matches and a lot of WWE. Adding live voting would introduce a new layer of interactivity to shows, potentially boosting engagement and making live programs true appointment viewing.

Behind The Scenes: Netflix doesn’t want you to lose your remote.

Final Tally: Netflix has been testing live voting since August of last year with its cooking show Dinner Time with David Chang. Clearly, the feature is now ready for primetime (whatever that means at Netflix). And since it works globally, audience scores could look markedly different from competition shows of the past, providing fresh insight into global tastes for talent.

Could Star Search be the American Idol or The Voice of the streaming era? We’ll see how Netflix users vote with their attention.

Next Season: It’s only a matter of time before an ambitious filmmaker tests a live choose-your-own-adventure movie — like Netflix’s early Bandersnatch experiment.

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The New York Stock Exchange — the most famous stock exchange in the world — is looking to introduce a blockchain platform for trading tokenized securities.

Why It Hits: The 233-year-old NYSE doesn’t want to find itself outmoded in a rapidly changing fintech landscape. Its owner, Intercontinental Exchange, recently invested $2 billion in prediction platform Polymarket to develop “future tokenization initiatives,” per The WSJ. Clearly, Intercontinental Exchange doesn’t want to leave money on the table and sees blockchain tech as a necessary step toward capturing a new generation of investors.

Behind The Trades: Stock brokers are going to need an extra cup of coffee.

Last Call: The potential new platform shows just how much blockchain tech is remaking markets. While NFTs and memecoins once made the burgeoning crypto industry feel like a house of cards, they changed how people think about trading assets — always available, immediate, transparent, and simplified. Those expectations have helped fuel the increase in retail trading in recent years.

And banks have had little choice but to adapt: JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of New York Mellon, and State Street are all getting on the tokenization train.

Prediction: If the new platform gets the greenlight and trades become possible around the clock, expect midnight-shift brokers to emerge as the new entry-level job on Wall Street.

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49.6% of you voted Rarely in yesterday’s poll: How often do you use rideshare services?

“I use Lyft when I will be out after dark (I don’t drive at night) or will be drinking alcohol.”

“Mostly to and from a night out or the airport.”

“Usually only when traveling.”

“As Waymo expands, I may do it more.”

“Assuming Uber Eats counts, then it’s a few times a week.”

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📺 Christmas Day was the biggest streaming day ever, racking up 55.1 billion minutes thanks to NFL games on both Netflix and Prime Video.

🎥 Imagine Entertainment is partnering with dairy brand Land O’Lakes on a new initiative to more accurately portray rural America in movies and TV.

🍿 New independent producer and distributor Subtext is officially launching at Sundance with its first title, the documentary Closure.

🤝 Humans& — a new AI startup that includes vets from Meta, Google, and OpenAI — has raised a $480 million seed round to make an AI platform that helps people collaborate.

🤖 OpenAI has signed a three-year deal with ServiceNow to embed ChatGPT into enterprise software.

💰 Elon Musk’s breach of charitable trust lawsuit against OpenAI hopes to extract up to $110 billion from the company.

🧥 Bottega Veneta CEO Leo Rongone has left to take the top spot at Moncler.

💸 Amazon CEO Andy Jassy admitted that President Trump’s tariffs are driving up prices on the e-commerce platform.

👸 Disney wants to make its princess brand high luxury.