• ☝️ You’re looking at Emo Wendy’s, a unique fast-food restaurant in the UK that recently rebranded to stand out in its London neighborhood that’s ​​known for music and fashion.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📈 Annual inflation in the UK rose to 9.4% last month, the highest rate in 40 years and tops among all G7 economies.
• 🚘 Tesla reported $2.3 billion in second-quarter profit after the closing bell yesterday; the automaker also disclosed that it's converted ~75% of its bitcoin holdings into fiat currency.
• ⚖️ META is suing Meta. Now that’s meta: Art installation company META is suing the social media giant, saying it can no longer use its own name since it’s “associated with the toxicity that is inextricably linked with Facebook.”

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏙️ NASCAR announced plans to host its first-ever street race next July in Chicago.
• 🧑‍🎤🎓 Texas State University is offering a course on Harry Styles starting next year.
• 🧙‍♀️🏐 Professional quidditch is rebranding as “quadball.”

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🔭🪐 The James Webb Space Telescope just spotted the oldest known galaxy in the universe.
• 👓 Google will begin testing its latest AR glasses in public; features include real-time translation and navigation.
• 🚀 NASA's Artemis mission, which will eventually return humans to the moon's surface for the first time in 50 years, could launch its initial uncrewed test flight around the moon as soon as August 29.

EVERYTHING ELSE

• 🇮🇹 Italian PM Mario Draghi resigned (again) yesterday after his coalition government fell apart.
• 🪖 The Army said it’ll likely fall 10,000 soldiers short of its recruiting goals for this fiscal year, blaming current labor market conditions.
• 🇪🇺 The EU asked its member states to their reduce natural gas consumption by 15% until next spring, citing risks from "the Kremlin's weaponization of gas exports."
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