• ☝️ Infrastructure probs: A transformer at the Hoover Dam exploded yesterday, but electricity continued to flow to 1.3 million people in the Southwest; a sinkhole opened up in NYC on Monday, swallowing a local van (which was later safely recovered).

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 🐦 Twitter won its motion for an expedited trial against Elon Musk in a bid to force through the $44 billion acquisition; the five-day trial will be held in Delaware this October.
• 🇨🇳 China's holdings of US debt have fallen below $1 trillion for the first time since May 2010, per a new Treasury Department report.
• 🇫🇷 The French government is preparing to purchase a 100% stake in domestic energy giant EDF for $9.7 billion.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• ⚾ The American League won last night’s MLB All-Star Game by a score of 3-2, clinching victory over the National League for the ninth straight year (and 27th time in the past 34 years).
• 💻 Microsoft launched Viva Engage, a new Facebook-like app inside Teams that encourages social networking at work.
• 📺 Streaming corner: Amazon is rolling out a new Prime Video experience over the next few weeks. | Netflix reported a loss of 970,000 subscribers last quarter, below the 2 million the company previously projected.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🧠 Australian startup Synchron became the first company to implant a brain-computer interface device in a US patient, beating out Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
• 🚁 The UK announced a $325+ million funding package for the aerospace sector that includes plans for the largest automated drone superhighway in the world.
• 🚀🛰 Two private space startups, Relativity Space and Impulse Space, announced joint plans for a commercial trip to Mars in 2024; if successful, they'll beat SpaceX to the red planet.

EVERYTHING ELSE

• 🚘📱 Ride-hailing company Didi Global is facing a $1 billion fine from Chinese authorities.
• 🏛️ At least 16 House Democrats were arrested yesterday at an abortion rights protest near the Supreme Court. (From the Left | From the Right)
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