• ☝️ NASA released new images from the James Webb Space Telescope late last week depicting Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. (Bonus: How the JSWT’s images are made.)

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📈 ESPN+ will cost $9.99/month beginning this August, up from $6.99/month currently; the 43% price increase is the service’s third rate hike over the past 12 months.
• ✂️💰 Stripe cut its private valuation by 28% to $74 billion, according to an email sent to employees; the fintech giant was valued at $95 billion last year.
• 🏘 The ten states with the most stable housing markets in America, per CNBC’s Top States for Business study.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🍿 Thor: Love and Thunder nearly passed $500 million at the international box office in its second weekend.
• 💍💒 JLo and Ben Affleck got married in Vegas over the weekend. (I wonder if their relationship started on an app…🤔)
• 🏌️🃏🎽 Scoreboard: American Cameron Smith won the British Open yesterday after matching the lowest score to par in major championship history (-20). | Norway's Espen Jorstad won the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas on Saturday, taking home the $10 million first prize. | American Fred Kerley is the new fastest man in the world after running the 100 meter dash in 9.86 seconds at the track and field world championships in Eugene, OR.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🐁 Japanese scientists have successfully cloned mice from freeze-dried skin cells, a world first that could eventually help revive populations of endangered species.
• 🔋 US researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery that can go through over 300 charging cycles while retaining over 90% of its capacity, a key step towards powering EVs in the future.
• 🧂 Utah’s Great Salt Lake is at its lowest level since record keeping began in 1847.

EVERYTHING ELSE

• 🎓 13-year-old Alena Analeigh became the youngest Black person ever accepted to medical school.
• 🥵 Europe is so hot rn: The UK government declared a national emergency after its weather service issued its first “red extreme heat warning"; more than 1,000 people across Portugal and Spain have died of heat-related causes over the past week.
• 🇲🇽 Mexican marines captured fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, founder of the infamous Guadalajara cartel, on Friday; it ends a nine-year search for one of the FBI's most wanted traffickers.