• ☝️ Little lizards called water anoles create snout bubbles which they “wear” underwater as tiny scuba tanks, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose across the board following the Fed's rate cut (S&P: +1.7%; Dow: +1.3%; Nasdaq: +2.5%) | 🏡 Average 30-year fixed mortgage rates fell again this week to reach 6.09%; it’s their lowest level since February 2023. | 🍝 Darden Restaurants, owner of Olive Garden, reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings and revenue.
• ✌️ Nike CEO John Donahoe is retiring; he'll be replaced by Elliott Hill, a former Nike exec who retired in 2020.
• 🤝 KKR and Axel Springer reached a deal to separate the German media giant's classified business from its media properties.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• ⚾ Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani became the first player in MLB history to hit 50 homers and steal 50 bases in a single season following a monster performance last night (6-for-6 with 3 HR, 10 RBI, and 2 SB). | 🏀 Las Vegas Aces center A'ja Wilson broke the WNBA single-season record for rebounds set earlier this season by Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese (who later became injured); Wilson also set the record earlier this year for most points in a WNBA season. |🏌️ LIV Golf players will be eligible to compete in the PGA Championship and on the US Ryder Cup team, the PGA of America announced yesterday.
• 🎮 Nintendo and the Pokémon Company filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the developers of Palworld – often referred to as “Pokémon with guns” – which briefly became one of the world’s most popular games after its January release.
• 📺 YouTube confirmed it has widely rolled out a feature where ads appear after users have paused a video.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🏆 The Lasker Awards, a set of prizes for advances in medicine and public health research, were awarded yesterday to three scientific groups; one group’s research helped lead to the discovery of GLP-1 drugs, another worked on stopping HIV, and the final group made immune system discoveries.
• 🔎📸 Google Search is planning to roll out a technology that will identify whether a photo was taken with a camera, edited by software like Photoshop, or produced by generative AI models.
• 📉 Fatal drug overdoses in the US declined by ~10% over the 12-month period ending this past April, the highest drop on record going back nearly a decade, per preliminary CDC data. | 🦠 Coronavirus-susceptible wildlife and the SARS CoV-2 virus were mingling alongside human beings at the wet market in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak of Covid-19 was first identified, per a peer-reviewed study published in Cell.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• ⚖️ The creator of a video that used AI to imitate Kamala Harris is suing the state of California after Governor Gavin Newsom signed new laws on Tuesday restricting the use of digitally altered political “deepfakes.” | 🚬 Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson is starting his own nicotine-pouch brand, called Alp.
• 🙏 A district judge in Kentucky was fatally shot in his chambers yesterday afternoon; state police said a local sheriff was arrested and charged in connection with the shooting.
• 📱 North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who’s running as the Republican nominee for state governor, made numerous inflammatory comments on a porn website's message board a decade ago, per a CNN report; Robinson denies making the comments. (From the Left | From the Center | From the Right)

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