Good morning. In today’s edition:

• 🧠 The three types of ADHD
• 🏈 NFL free agency opens
• 🤖 AI = athletic intelligence

…and much more.

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“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

–Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Glasses are typically used to help you see the world. But Meta’s new smart glasses allegedly help the world see you, instead.

The tech giant is facing a class action lawsuit over privacy concerns relating to its new smart glasses, after an investigation revealed human workers were reviewing extremely…personal footage captured by users’ devices.

Here’s what happened

Late last month, two Swedish newspapers reported that some video captured by Meta’s glasses is being routed to a subcontractor in Kenya, where human workers review and label clips to train Meta’s AI models.

• This footage sometimes included highly sensitive moments like people using the bathroom, having sex, or viewing pornography, according to the investigation.
• And while the company said it blurs faces in the footage, sources who spoke to the Swedish outlets say the system doesn’t always work.

Given that Meta’s chosen slogan for its glasses is “Designed for privacy, controlled by you,” the investigation’s claims have upset customers and regulators alike.

Two plaintiffs (from California and New Jersey) filed a class-action lawsuit accusing Meta and its glasses partner, Luxottica of America, of privacy violations relating to the new claims, while UK regulators have also opened an investigation into the issue.

Meta’s side of the story: The tech giant has confirmed that data from its smart glasses can be shared with human contractors in some cases, but says that “unless users choose to share media they've captured with Meta or others, that media stays on the user's device.”

Smart glasses users are required to share media with Meta in order to access advanced features like cloud storage, direct social sharing, and AI-powered tools including Live AI and real-time translation.

Zoom out: As smart glasses and other “luxury surveillance” like smart speakers continue to grow in popularity, so too have concerns about their potential for misuse via filming or monitoring people without consent.

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Scientists say that kind of attention chaos in people with ADHD can be categorized into three different types, rather than a single overarching category as previously thought, according to a new study in JAMA Psychiatry.

The breakdown

Scientists analyzed brain scans from 1,100+ children in the US, China, and Australia.

After examining different patterns in the brain scans, researchers found three distinct neurological profiles in children with ADHD:

1. Severe combined type. People with this profile show both hyperactivity and inattention, plus higher levels of emotional dysregulation.
2. Hyperactive/impulsive. Marked by restlessness, impulsive decisions, and difficulty staying still. Think the classic “leg bouncing under the desk” type.
3. Inattentive. Less hyperactivity, but significant issues with focus, organization, and sustained attention. People with this profile frequently miss deadlines and leave to-do lists half finished.

But…before anyone rushes to rewrite the diagnostic manuals, researchers say their findings still need to be replicated. Until then, ADHD remains a clinical diagnosis based on behavioral evaluation, not brain scans.

The potential impact: ADHD diagnoses have skyrocketed across the US in recent decades, with ADHD medication use in children rising nearly five-fold between 2006-2020, and more than 10-fold in adults. If confirmed, researchers say their new findings could lead to more personalized treatments tailored to each of the three ADHD types.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📉📈 US markets stage late comeback following wild trading session where all three indexes were down at least 1.5% earlier in the day (S&P: +0.8% | Dow: +0.5% | Nasdaq: +1.4%); oil prices reached a peak of ~$120/barrel in overnight trading Sunday before falling to the mid-$80s yesterday evening.
• 🎟️ Live Nation agrees to settlement with DOJ in antitrust case focused on its 2010 merger with Ticketmaster; deal means Live Nation won't need to divest Ticketmaster, but will have to open parts of its platform to rival ticketing companies and pay states $200 million in damages.
• 🏘️ Bipartisan Senate housing bill adds clause requiring large single-family home investors to sell newly built rental properties to individuals within seven years; it’s part of larger bill that would ban large institutional investors from buying existing homes.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏈 NFL free agency: Miami Dolphins to release QB Tua Tagovailoa; move leaves an NFL-record $99.2 million in dead money; Tagovailoa reportedly agrees to 1-yr minimum deal with Atlanta Falcons. | Dolphins sign former Packers QB Malik Willis to three-yr, $67.5 million deal. | KC Chiefs sign former Seahawks RB Kenneth Walker III—MVP of last month’s Super Bowl—to three-yr deal worth up to $45 million.
• 🏡 Rihanna’s LA home shot at with AR-15-style rifle by 35-year-old woman, who was arrested, police say; no injuries were reported.
• 🥊 Jon Jones publicly requests release from UFC amid public feud with CEO Dana White over his recent comments about Jones being excluded from the upcoming White House fight.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• ☀️🪞 Startup seeks FCC approval to launch 50,000 large mirrors into orbit and try to bounce sunlight to the night side of Earth; Reflect Orbital says its goals include powering solar farms after sunset and illuminating city streets.
• 🏥 Japan approves groundbreaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and severe heart failure; they mark the first commercial medical products to use a special type of stem cell called iPS cells, whose discovery earned the 2012 Nobel Prize.
• 🌌 Stormy space weather could be scrambling any hypothetical messages from extraterrestrial life outside our Solar System, causing them to go undetected by human instruments, new study suggests.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

• 💥 President Trump says Iran war could soon be over in new interview; “I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force”; Trump also said the US is “very far” ahead of his initial 4-5 week timeline.
• ✈️ TSA airport lines stretched for up to 3+ hours across the US yesterday amid staffing shortages due to the ongoing DHS shutdown; TSA is advising passengers to arrive 4-5 hours before their flights.
• 🤖🏛️ Anthropic sues Trump admin for designating the AI company a national security threat and moving to cut ties across US agencies over AI usage disagreements. | 🗽 Improvised explosive device thrown at an anti-Islam demonstration near NYC’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence is being investigated as act of "ISIS-inspired terrorism"; two young males (18 and 19) are facing federal charges.

👆Northwestern engineers created the first modular robots containing what they describe as athletic intelligence. These “legged metamachines” are made from autonomous, Lego-like modules—each with its own motor, battery, and computer—which can snap together in various configurations and walk (or flop) across different terrains.

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🖱️ What we’re clicking:

• How Timothée Chalamet made enemies of opera and ballet stars
• The latest new gadget: smartphones for pets
• How to reclaim your attention

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Yesterday we covered the latest updates from the Iran war, including US officials saying the conflict could last another 4-6 weeks, and Iran selecting Mojtaba Khamenei—son of the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—as the country’s new supreme leader, signaling continued resistance.

❓ Our question to you: How long do you think the ongoing Middle East conflict will last beyond today’s date?

• Within 2 weeks: 3%
• 2-4 weeks: 8%
• 4-6 weeks: 20%
• 6-8 weeks: 11%
• 8+ weeks: 58%

Click here to read some of the most thoughtful longform responses.

+Note on sample size: We received 636 votes and 57 longform responses.

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