• ☝️ GM recently unveiled its newest Corvette model; the 2025 Chevy Corvette ZR1 will be the most powerful version ever produced, with 1,000+ horsepower and 828 foot-pounds of torque.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board on Friday (S&P: +1.1%; Dow: +1.6%; Nasdaq: +1.0%). | 🏦 Central bank policymakers from the US, UK, and Japan are all set to meet this week; their decisions may impact bonds, stocks, and currencies.
• 🍏 Apple will start to roll out Apple Intelligence (its suite of AI-powered features) a few weeks after the initial launch of iOS 18 in September, per Bloomberg; analysts previously expected the two to be tied together.
• 🥊 It’s on: Fast-food chains are battling for price-conscious diners with summer value meals.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🍿 Deadpool and Wolverine earned $205 million at the US box office its opening weekend, marking the highest debut of 2024 and best-ever opening by an R-rated movie. | 🦹 Robert Downey Jr., formerly Iron Man, will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as supervillain Dr. Doom in Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027); both films are being directed by the Russo brothers. | 🗣️ Every other major announcement from San Diego Comic-Con 2024.
• 🏎️ F1 Belgian Grand Prix: Mercedes’ George Russell was stripped of his victory after officials determined he raced with an underweight car; his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton was elevated to first place instead.
• 🙏 Three members of The Nelons, a Grammy-nominated family gospel group, died in a Wyoming plane crash that also killed four other people.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🩸🧠 A new blood test can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease with 90+% accuracy, significantly outperforming both primary care and specialist doctors, per a new study.
• 🪐🤔 NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered a rock on Mars that represents “a potential biosignature”; scientists describe the finding as a structure, composition, or texture in the rock that could have been formed by microbial life billions of years ago, but could also come from non-biological processes.
• 💻⚛️ Startup PsiQuantum announced a deal with the State of Illinois to build the first US-based, utility-scale quantum computer; it’ll be located in Chicago.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🔥 The arson-caused Park fire in Northern California has grown to encompass 350,000+ acres and was 12% contained as of Sunday morning; overall, the US had 155 active fires covering 2+ million acres as of yesterday.
• 🍗 Today is National Chicken Wing Day: Browse one-day deals from Wingstop, Buffalo Wild Wings, Popeyes, and more.
• ⛏️ A planned major copper mine in southern Arizona – which would supply enough copper to satisfy an estimated ~25% of US demand – is in doubt due to pushback from environmental groups and Indigenous religious-liberty activists.

CLICKBAIT

• 💪🚀 Genetically Enhanced Humans May Be The Future of Space Travel.