Alex Dobrenko

🔥 It’s Wednesday, July 12th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🤖📔 Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, claiming both companies trained their large language models on the comedian's book, The Bedwetter.

☀️🫄 Women undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are significantly more likely to have a successful birth when their eggs are harvested during the summer or on an especially sunny day, per a new study

🌏 Around the world: ~50k Russian soldiers have reportedly died in the war against Ukraine, Dutch PM Mark Rutte is retiring from politics after his gov’t collapsed last week, and more.

📦💰 Like Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour,” Amazon Prime Day is in full swing. The two-day shopping event kicked off at 3 am ET this morning, and ends tomorrow at 9 pm ET.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, July 11th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🍿🐍 The fifth and final Indiana Jones was dethroned from the No. 1 spot at the box office after just one week, a less-than-epic end to the franchise.

🌎 Around the world: France approved a new law allowing police to remotely activate the cameras, microphones, and GPS systems of suspects’ phones, laptops, and cars, Ukraine shouldn’t join NATO until its war against Russia is over, according to top US and German officials, and more.

📅🗳️ Mark your calendars – the 2024 presidential cycle has an official start date. The Republican Party of Iowa over the weekend announced plans to host its first-in-the-nation presidential caucus on January 15 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day).

🔥It’s Monday, July 10th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🗞️❌ A GQ profile of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was taken down by the magazine's editor-in-chief (and the producer of an upcoming WBD film) hours after being published.

🚗📈 Much like the odometer of someone headed across the country to, "like, find myself, man," US auto sales are going up. Per a new WSJ report, new-vehicle sales totaled ~7.7 million from January to June, a ~13% increase yr over yr.

🌏 Around the world: Australia became the first country to legalize psychedelics to treat depression and PTSD, pieces of a Munich synagogue destroyed by Nazis in 1938 were just discovered, and more.

💉🎧 Last month, podcast host Joe Rogan held a three-hour interview with Democratic presidential candidate and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And one topic from their conversation is stirring up controversy: do vaccines cause autism and/or chronic diseases?

🔥 It’s Friday, July 7th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

Instagram just launched Threads and it's giving big Twitter vibes -->

💥🧠 Heather Anderson, an Australian rules football player who died by suicide last year at 28, is the first female pro athlete to ever be diagnosed with CTE, per a newly-published scientific paper.

🌏 Around the World: China is restricting exports of two minerals the US deems critical to the production of semiconductors, solar cells, and missile systems, the world recorded its hottest day ever on Monday (and then again on Tuesday), & more →

⚖️🎓 On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned the Biden administration’s plan to forgive up to $20K in federal student-loan debt for over 40M eligible US borrowers.

🔥 It’s Thursday, July 6th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.