• ☝️ Snap yesterday unveiled the fifth generation of its Spectacles augmented reality glasses, which can overlay digital images and filters onto the physical world; the latest Spectacles are only available to AR app developers, who have to shell out $99/month for at least a full year.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed (S&P: +0.03%; Dow: -0.04%; Nasdaq: +0.2%).
• 💳 JPMorgan is reportedly in talks to take over Apple's credit card program from Goldman Sachs.
• ⚖️ Trump Media breached an agreement with one of the investors that helped the company go public, a judge ruled yesterday. | ✈️ Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines can move forward with their planned merger, the Department of Transportation said yesterday (though there are a few stipulations).

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• ⚖️ Sean “Diddy” Combs has been charged with sex trafficking, racketeering, and transporting for prostitution, per a federal grand jury indictment unsealed yesterday.
• 🤸 US gymnast Jordan Chiles appealed to Switzerland’s Supreme Court asking it to overturn a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that stripped her of a bronze medal in the 2024 Olympics floor exercise.
• 🎶 Miley Cyrus is facing a lawsuit accusing her and the co-writers of 2023 hit song “Flowers” of copying elements from Bruno Mars’ 2013 ballad “When I Was Your Man.” | 🏆👀 The Emmy Awards on ABC drew ~6.9 million viewers on Sunday night, its highest audience in three years.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🪐 Earth may have once had a ring system around it ~500 million years ago similar to Saturn, according to a new study.
• 🚀 The FAA is seeking a ~$633,000 fine from SpaceX over three alleged violations during two rocket launches last year; CEO Elon Musk said SpaceX plans to sue the FAA for regulatory overreach.
• 🌌 Researchers are investigating the possibility that the universe is teeming with microscopic black holes as small as an atom – but as massive as a city-sized asteroid – that travel quietly through our Solar System once every few years.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• ⚖️ Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction was upheld yesterday by a federal appeals court; Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence on charges related to recruiting and grooming underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein. 
• 🎓 Some Navient student loan borrowers may qualify for relief, after the company reached a $120 million settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
• 🏛️👶 A Senate vote on legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments failed yesterday, with the 51-44 margin short of the 60 votes needed to move forward; two Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the measure. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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