• ☝️ The town of Butte, Montana, had a surprise visitor this week, when an elephant escaped from the visiting Jordan World Circus and started roaming the streets; after crossing a busy road and munching on some grass, the elephant was returned home safely.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed (S&P: -0.2%; Dow: +0.1%; Nasdaq: -0.5%).
• 📺 Netflix posted its best start to a year since 2020, adding 9.33 million subscribers in Q1 (nearly double analysts' estimates); the streamer also said it plans to stop providing investors with subscriber numbers early next year.
• 🧬 ​​23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki is reportedly planning to take the company private. | 💼 ​​Google terminated 28 employees involved in a multi-city protest against the tech giant's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government and military. Read the full memo.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🎸 Dickey Betts, cofounder of the Allman Brothers Band, passed away at 80.
• 🏀👟 Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark is reportedly close to reaching an eight-figure endorsement deal with Nike that will include her own signature shoe.
• 🏒 It's official: The NHL's Arizona Coyotes are relocating to Utah.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🥊🏃 The sympathetic nervous system, responsible for the fight-or-flight response, developed in the earliest known vertebrates roughly 550 million years ago, per a new study. | 🌊🦎 Researchers identified remnants of what may be the largest marine reptile ever discovered; the species, ichthyotitan severnensis, was believed to reach over 80 feet long, twice the length of a city bus.
• 😬 An unhealthy dose of pesticides can be found in ~20% of fruits and veggies sold in the US, per a new report.
• 🤖 Meta released two new versions of Llama 3, its large-language model built to rival ChatGPT; the company claims this tech is among the best-performing generative AI models available today.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 📵 911 outages were reported in four states on Wednesday, leaving millions of residents unable to access emergency services; the FCC is investigating the incident.
• 📈 The Biden administration is seeking to increase a key tariff on Chinese steel products from 7.5% to 25%. | 💻 The Commerce Department will reportedly award $6.1 billion to chipmaker Micron Technology to support domestic factory projects; it marks the latest distribution of funds from the 2022 bipartisan CHIPS Act. (Background)
• ⚖️ San Francisco filed a lawsuit seeking to block the city of Oakland's planned renaming of its airport to "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport."

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