• 👆 Coachella 2025 kicked off this weekend, with hundreds of thousands flocking to Southern California to see performances from Benson Boone, Lady Gaga, Tyla, Green Day, and Yo Gabba Gabba, and more; the festival concludes this upcoming weekend.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📈 US markets rose across the board last week (S&P: +5.7%; Dow: +5.0%; Nasdaq: +7.3%).
• 📲 Meta’s antitrust trial regarding its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp begins today in Washington, DC.
• 🤖 Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup led by OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, reportedly raised $2 billion at a $32 billion valuation.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🏌️ Rory McIlroy defeated Justin Rose in a sudden-death playoff to win the first Master’s Tournament green jacket of his career (and his first major since 2014); Rory is now the sixth golfer to ever complete a career Grand Slam.
• 📺 Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us premiered last night; it follows Season 1's eight Emmy wins. | 🎥 A Minecraft Movie led the domestic box office with $80.6M in its second weekend; it’s on pace to be the first $1+B film of this year ($550+M globally to date).
• 🙏 Actor Nicky Katt died at 54. | 🏆 Jennifer Lopez will host this year’s American Music Awards on May 26.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🌀 La Niña, the global cooling weather phenomenon driven by cold water in the Pacific Ocean, has disappeared after a short three months.
• 💀 An ancient jawbone found off the coast of Taiwan marks the first confirmed presence of Denisovans, an ancient human relative, in Southeast Asia.
• 🌌 The first-ever observation of a planet being swallowed by a star was recently analyzed by NASA.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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• 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US and Iran held a “constructive” first round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear program on Saturday; a second round of talks is set for this week.
• 🧑‍⚕️ President Trump is in “excellent cognitive and physical health,” according to a memo from his physician published by the White House following his annual physical.
• 🔫 Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed a first-of-its-kind law requiring a special license and training to buy most firearms with detachable magazines; it’s one of the strictest gun laws in any state, covering many popular firearms. | 🧑‍⚖️ The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must take steps to return a Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

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