• ☝️ The Manta Ray, an animal-like uncrewed underwater vehicle created by aerospace/defense giant Northrop Grumman as part of a contract for DARPA, was recently captured in new footage.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed yesterday (S&P: -0.3%; Dow: +0.8%; Nasdaq: -0.8%).
• 📦 Amazon said it has replaced 95% of plastic air pillows in its North American delivery packaging with recycled paper filler; the company plans to stop using plastic air packaging by year’s end.
• 🍔 McDonald’s new $5 meal deal will be available nationwide starting June 25.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏀 The Los Angeles Lakers have reportedly signed ESPN analyst JJ Redick to a four-year contract as their next head coach, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
• 🎶 Sony Music bought the rock band Queen's music catalog for ~$1.3 billion. | 🙏 Donald Sutherland, an actor who starred in hits including M*A*S*H and the Hunger Games franchise, passed away at 88. | 🎤 Rapper Travis Scott was arrested yesterday in Miami on charges of trespassing and disorderly intoxication.
• 📱 Instagram regularly recommends sexual videos to 13-year-olds that appear interested in such content, and does so within minutes of a new account’s creation, per tests by the Wall Street Journal and Northeastern professor Laura Edelson.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🤖 Anthropic unveiled Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its most powerful artificial intelligence chatbot to date. | 🤖 OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever announced a new venture called Safe Superintelligence, which seeks to launch a “safe” artificial general intelligence.
• 💉 Gilead’s experimental twice-yearly shot to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial among women; the company is currently running a Phase 3 study focused on men who have sex with men.
• 📡🎒 SpaceX unveiled a backpack-sized version of its Starlink antennas, which the company is advertising as a mobile satellite internet option.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🚫🗣️ Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the leading third-party presidential candidate, will be excluded from the first presidential debate next week after he failed to meet CNN’s qualifying standards.
• 🏛️ The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of upholding a one-time tax on foreign income imposed by former President Trump in 2017. (Read more) | ⚖️ Former President Trump’s attorneys filed a motion seeking to recuse the judge who oversaw his New York civil fraud trial over allegations he improperly discussed the case with an outside party. (Read more).
• 🌊 Tropical Storm Alberto made landfall in eastern Mexico, bringing flooding and heavy rainfall to Mexico and Texas; at least four deaths are being attributed to the storm.

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