Alex Dobrenko

🧾 While the opportunity is ever-present, Americans are currently leaving fewer tips than in previous years, according to a newly-published report from financial services firm Bankrate →

🌏 Around the world: El Niño has officially begun after a four-year hiatus, a pair of Chinese climbers abandoned their Mount Everest summit attempt to rescue an unconscious climber, & more →

🔥 It’s Friday, June 9th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🤖0️⃣ Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft mentioned the word “AI” 161 different times on their most recent earnings calls. Meanwhile, Apple used the word during its recent WWDC conference a whopping...zero times. 

🔥💨 Hundreds of wildfires are currently burning across Canada, tossing up smoke that’s affecting ~100 million Americans across more than 18 states.

🌎 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, scientists in Costa Rica have recorded the first known “virgin birth” in a crocodile, and more.

🛸 David Grusch, a former US military and intelligence official, is claiming the federal government has possession of “intact and partially intact vehicles” of non-human origin, per a pair of interviews published this week.

🔥 It’s Thursday, June 8th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🤫📺 Gen Z and Millenials love watching TV with subtitles. Which makes sense, given how impossibly difficult its gotten to hear actual dialogue on streaming.

📝🏳️‍🌈 The Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest gay rights organization, declared a state of emergency for all LGBTQ+ people living in the US.

🌎 Five new countries were elected to the UN Security Council, English think tank Autonomy unveiled the country’s first universal basic income pilot program, and more.

⛳️🤝 The PGA Tour announced a surprise merger with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf yesterday.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, June 7th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🤖🥽 Apple announced Vision Pro, its $3,499 AR/VR headset, yesterday, and it’s giving big ‘whoa we live in the future’ vibes.

☀️🛰🌏 In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists at the California Institute of Technology have successfully transmitted solar energy collected by a satellite down to a receiver on Earth.

🌎 Prince Harry will take the witness stand in a tabloid trial later today, Ukrainian troops launched a counterattack against Russia at multiple points along the front lines, and more.

🪙⚖️ Yesterday, the SEC filed 13 charges against Binance, the largest crypto-trading platform in the world, as well as its billionaire co-founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao (widely known as CZ).

🔥 It’s Tuesday, June 6th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🍿🧗‍♂️ From bowling alleys to rock-climbing walls, movie theaters are doing everything they can to get us off the couch and into the theater this summer.

🌎 One of India’s worst rail disasters in decades occurred on Friday night, Global spy chiefs held a secret meeting in Singapore, and more.