• ☝️ The most expensive home in Boston recently hit the market with an asking price of $29.9 million; the 10,600-square-foot home includes six bedrooms and an elevator to navigate all five floors.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

in partnership with Headway

• 💰 US markets closed up across the board (S&P: +0.5%; Dow: +0.9%; Nasdaq: +0.3%); the Dow rose for its seventh straight session.
• 💼 US unemployment claims rose to a seasonally adjusted 231,000 last week, the highest figure since last August. | 📈 S&P 500 companies that reported Q1 earnings as of Monday have disclosed $181.2 billion in share buybacks, up 16% from the same period last year.
• 🏋️ Planet Fitness is raising its base-level membership prices for new customers for the first time since 1998, to $15/month; current members will continue to pay $10/month. | 🚗 GM is retiring the Chevy Malibu at the end of this year to make room for more EV production.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 📺🤞 Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery will offer a streaming bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max to US customers starting this summer. | 🌋💍 Speaking of WBD: The entertainment giant announced a new Lord of the Rings movie scheduled for release in 2026, with Peter Jackson as producer and Andy Serkis (aka Gollum) as the director and star.
• 📱 TikTok will start labeling AI-generated images and videos using a digital watermark known as Content Credentials.
• 📡 Sinclair, one of the largest owners of broadcast stations in the US, is reportedly looking to sell more than 30% of its 185 stations.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

in partnership with Paleovalley

• 🪐 NASA’s James Webb telescope detected the first-ever signs of a rocky planet outside our Solar System that contains an atmosphere, a trait considered essential for harboring life; however, the planet’s conditions are inhospitable to life as we know it (unless you actually are built different).
• 🧊☕ Scientists in Australia developed a method for producing cold brew coffee that cuts the required time from 12-24 hours to just a few minutes; the study’s author said he plans to license the tech to coffee-makers.
• 🧠🔬 Researchers at Harvard and Google imaged a tiny, sand grain-sized fragment of the human brain in unprecedented detail, uncovering 57,000 cells and 150 million neural connections.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• ⛈️🌪️ Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes affected millions of Americans in the Southeast US yesterday; the same storm system contributed to three deaths in Tennessee and North Carolina on Wednesday.
• 🇺🇸 The reigning Miss USA and Miss Teen USA resigned from the pageant organization days apart this week, citing mental health reasons and differences in personal values, respectively.
• ⚖️ Stormy Daniels concluded her testimony as a key witness in the criminal hush-money trial of former President Trump. (Read more)

CLICKBAIT

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