• ☝️ The 2024 Ocean Photographer of the Year Awards announced its winning images yesterday, which will go on exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum in November.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board (S&P: +0.7%; Dow: +0.6%; Nasdaq: +1.0%).
• 🚫 33,000 Boeing production workers voted to strike yesterday; the strike began overnight. | ✈️ American Airlines flight attendants ratified a new five-year labor deal yesterday; cabin crews will receive immediate ~20% raises.
• 🤝 Mastercard is acquiring Recorded Future, a cybersecurity company, for $2.65 billion. | 🏦 JP Morgan and Bank of America are reportedly planning to limit and track young bankers' hours more stringently; a previous Wall Street Journal investigation detailed a culture of overwork on Wall Street, with some young bankers putting in 100-hour weeks.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏈 Thursday Night Football: The Bills beat the Dolphins 31-10. | 👀 The NFL drew an average of 21 million viewers per game in Week 1, its most-ever for opening week.
• 📣 The Pac-12 conference announced plans to add Boise St., Colorado St., Fresno St., and San Diego St. starting in 2026; it would bring the Pac-12 to six teams, along with existing members Oregon St. and Washington St.; the Pac-12 has two years to increase its membership to eight – or lose its status as an NCAA conference.
• ⚖️ Harvey Weinstein was indicted on unspecified new charges by a New York grand jury; the disgraced media mogul was previously convicted in New York of third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sex act, but his conviction was overturned in April; Weinstein is also facing a separate 16-year prison sentence in Los Angeles.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🤖 OpenAI unveiled o1, a new AI model representing the first of an upcoming series of “reasoning models”; o1, nicknamed Strawberry, is reportedly better at complex math, science, and coding questions than OpenAI’s previous iterations.
• 🧑‍🚀 A new record was set this week for the most people orbiting Earth at one time (19), following the launch of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission. | 🚀 Speaking of Polaris Dawn: Its crew successfully conducted the first-ever commercial spacewalk early yesterday morning.
• 🌎 Earth’s worst mass extinction in history – which killed off ~90% of all living species around 250 million years ago – may have been caused by a supercharged El Niño cycle, per a new study.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🗽 NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban resigned yesterday; the move follows reports that Caban’s phone was seized as part of a federal investigation involving several members of NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle.
• 💰🗳️ Kalshi, a startup predictions market featuring wagers on real-world events, began taking bets on the 2024 US presidential election yesterday following a federal court ruling allowing such activity (at least temporarily). | 🗣️ Former President Trump yesterday said he won’t participate in a third presidential debate; the Harris campaign called for another debate with Trump in October following Tuesday’s contest.
• ⚖️ A Georgia judge dismissed two more counts in the election interference case against former President Trump, but separately upheld the charge of racketeering; Trump now faces eight total counts after originally being charged with 13. | 💻 The Justice Department is preparing criminal charges in connection with an Iranian hack that targeted Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, sources told the AP.

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