Five things you need to know today, plus AI and the meaning of art

Happy Thursday! This is Managing Editor Don Seiffert with a pre-holiday edition of the Five Things you need to know, plus a short but deep reflection about computers, AI and the meaning of art. Another outage at Amazon Web Services Amazon’s cloud-computing unit suffered a new outage Wednesday affecting servers in its US-East-1 region, which covers cities including Boston, Houston and Chicago. The outage is at least its third this month, according to the Wall Street Journal. Wu cuts parking mandates…