• ☝️ A trio of autonomous aquatic drones recently discovered the wreck of the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” (aka the U.S.S. Stewart) off the California coast; the sunken vessel was the only US Navy destroyer captured and put into use by Japanese forces during World War II.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -0.2%; Dow: -0.4%; Nasdaq: -0.04%); oil prices spiked amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. | 💉 Eli Lilly's Zepbound (weight loss) and Mounjaro (diabetes) shortages are over, according to the FDA; shares of Hims and Hers, which sells compounded weight-loss drugs, fell ~10% in afternoon trading.
• 🚗 A couple hurt in an Uber crash can't sue Uber after their daughter clicked away trial rights on UberEats, a New Jersey court rules.
• 🚚 Ford unveiled the 2025 Expedition.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• ⚾ MLB Playoffs: The New York Mets came back in the 9th to win a deciding Game 3 against the Milwaukee Brewers and conclude the Wild Card Round; the ALDS and NLDS start on Saturday. (Full playoff picture)
• 🏀 Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark named the WNBA Rookie of the Year after receiving 66/67 first-place votes.
• 🎶💰 British rock band Pink Floyd agreed to sell the rights to their entire music catalog, along with their names and likenesses, to Sony Music for $400 million. | 🎥 Rust will debut at the Camerimage Festival in November, three years after the on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 🤖 AI startup Character.ai told the Financial Times that it’s giving up on making new AI models and will instead focus on consumer products; the move comes after Google struck a $2.7 billion deal to re-hire Character.ai’s founders, add 20% of its staff, and license its technology. (Dive deeper: The employee Google paid $2.7 billion to get back)
• 🧠 Stanford researchers identified a gene in mice that explains why their brains slowly lose the ability to regenerate neurons with age, with future plans to apply that research to humans.
• 🐜 Ants may have first learned to farm fungi – a practice widely seen across ant species today – in response to the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs, since few life forms beyond fungi could thrive at that time, per a new study.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🌀 Hurricane Helene is now the deadliest mainland US hurricane since Katrina in 2005 and the fourth-deadliest since 1950; its death toll climbed to at least 214 people yesterday. | 🔥 The Maui wildfire that killed at least 102 people last year was ignited by power lines downed due to high winds, per a new joint federal-state report.
• 👮 Three former Memphis police officers were found guilty by a federal jury of varying charges related to the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols in January 2023.
• 🎓💰 A federal judge allowed the Biden admin to move forward with its revised student-loan forgiveness plan while the court battle over its legality continues; the plan mainly focuses on forgiving up to $20,000 in accrued interest for ~25 million borrowers.

CLICKBAIT

• 🪐 32 real planets that sound like science fiction.