Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

• ⚾ Pittsburgh Pirates rookie pitcher Paul Skenes is the first player in MLB history to be drafted No. 1 overall and make the All-Star game the following year. (Read more)
• 🤖📈 AI companies accounted for 40% of new private US "unicorns" (aka startups valued at $1+ billion) in the first half of this year, as well as 60+% of the increase in total VC-backed valuations. (Read more)
• 💻 A collection of nearly 10 billion passwords was uploaded to a hacker forum on July 4, with researchers calling it the largest such leak of all time. (Read more)
• 🏥 Private insurers involved in Medicare made 200,000+ fake or questionable diagnoses that triggered ~$50 billion in extra taxpayer-funded payments to themselves from 2018-2021, per a new WSJ investigation. (Read more)
• 🛏️ US sales of mattresses and foundations totaled 39.7 million last year, or 22% lower compared to 2021. (Read more)