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BUSINESS & MARKETS

  • 📝 Walmart announced it’ll raise some prices due to tariffs; is the largest retailer to do so thus far. | Cava reported Q1 results that topped analysts' estimates; same-store sales rose 10.8%. | Dick's Sporting Goods is acquiring the referee-uniform-staffed Foot Locker for $2.4 billion.
  • 🪙 Coinbase says hackers stole customer info and are demanding a $20 million ransom.
  • 2,000+ Starbucks baristas have gone on strike to protest the company’s new dress code.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

in partnership with Dyce Games

  • 📺 Amazon renewed Beast Games, the reality competition series hosted by MrBeast, for Seasons 2 and 3.
  • 🏌️ The PGA Championship teed off yesterday; Jhonattan Vegas was the first-round leader at 7-under.
  • ⚖️ Day 4 of testimony in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ criminal trial took place yesterday. | Chris Brown was arrested yesterday in Manchester, UK, over an alleged nightclub bottle attack that took place two years ago.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

  • 🤖 OpenAI’s flagship GPT-4.1 model is now available to paying users, while free users were upgraded to GPT-4.1 mini. | Meta is delaying the rollout of its flagship “Behemoth” AI model amid struggles to improve its capabilities, per a Wall Street Journal report.
  • 🧬 A customized Crispr gene-editing therapy was used to successfully treat an infant with a rare, deadly metabolic disease; the gene-editing breakthrough could serve as a template for other patients. | Most orange cats—along with multicolored calicos and tortoiseshells—share a single gene that makes their fur ginger, per a pair of new studies.
  • 🚀 A rotating detonation rocket engine took flight for the first time in the US, startup Venus Aerospace announced Wednesday.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

in partnership with Your Everyday Heroes

  • 📉 US drug overdose deaths fell last year to their lowest annual level since 2019, per preliminary CDC data.
  • ✈️ The FAA is investigating a 90-second radio outage near Denver International Airport that affected up to 20 flights, but didn’t impact operations otherwise; it’s the latest in a series of glitches affecting US air traffic control systems.
  • 🚰 Florida is the second state to officially ban fluoride in public water, after Utah did so in March.

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