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And for today's recommended read, how mountains of Italian food fed athletes at the Winter Olympic Games.

That fuel included about 1,800 metres of pizza and a tonne of Grana Padano cheese per day.

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But first, we have some breaking news.

For more, here's my colleague Tara Oakes.

Bill Gates has pulled out of India's AI Impact Summit just hours before his scheduled keynote address.

The cancellation comes after Gates was named in those Epstein documents released by the DOJ, too.

Documents indicate Gates met with Epstein repeatedly after the sex offender had already served prison time to discuss expanding Gates' philanthropic efforts.

Gates says that's all they discussed and that it was a mistake to meet him at all.

The Microsoft co-founder's cancellation is another blow for India's first major AI summit, which has been marred by management lapses.