• ☝️ The 2025 Met Gala was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last night, with co-chairs including Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, and Pharrell Williams (plus LeBron James as honorary chair).

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📉 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -0.6%; Dow: -0.2%; Nasdaq: -0.7%); the S&P snapped its longest winning streak since 2004.
• 👟 Skechers is being acquired for ~$9 billion by 3G Capital in a take-private deal; the move will end the third-largest sneaker company in the world's 26-year run on the public markets.
• ✌️ OpenAI is abandoning its planned for-profit conversion. | Skype is officially done: The video-call service was shut down by Microsoft yesterday.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🎥 President Trump said he’s considering a 100% tariff on films produced overseas.
• 🧑‍⚖️ Jury selection for Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial began in New York.
• 🏆 The NBA Playoffs entered the conference semifinal round this week. | The NHL Playoffs dropped the puck on conference semifinal action last night.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🌌 NASA’s James Webb Telescope took an image containing a record 1,678 galaxy groups up to 12 billion light-years away.
• 🔢 Mathematician Norman Wildberger figured out a way to solve higher-degree polynomial equations without using approximations, solving a ~200-year puzzle.
• 🤖 New AI reasoning systems are hallucinating—or producing incorrect information—more often than their predecessors, even as processing power goes up.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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• 🇮🇱 Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan to capture and hold the Gaza Strip, rescue Israel’s remaining hostages from Hamas, and relocate the ~2.1 million Palestinians living in Gaza.
• 🎓 The federal government has resumed collecting student loan payments from the ~5 million Americans in default for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
• 🏛️ The Trump admin announced plans to provide travel assistance and a $1,000 stipend to undocumented immigrants in the US who use a government app to self-deport.

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