💬 Quoted…​​ “It's nice to sit back in the car and listen to you rant."

Steve Jobs, apparently, is a Joe Rogan fan – or at least his virtual avatar is. A 20-minute fictional podcast interview published last week by Dubai-based Podcast.AI features a replication of Rogan's voice conversing with Jobs, who died in 2011 and was never featured on The Joe Rogan Experience. The two “conversed” over topics like Buddhism, LSD, and revolutionary Apple products.

• While it's unclear whether their stunt is legal, Podcast.AI is now asking its users to vote on upcoming AI-generated interviews.

🚗 Stat of the Day: 1 euro = the amount for which Nissan sold its Russian business to a state-owned entity yesterday, taking a $687 million loss. The move comes months after the Japanese automaker was forced to halt production in the country due to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

🌎 Around the World: Israel and Lebanon, which have formally been at war with each other since Israel was established in 1948, agreed to a permanent maritime border following US-brokered peace talks.

🤯 Did You Know?... The metropolitan area of Tokyo, Japan, has a higher population (37.3 million people) than every US state except California (39.4 million).

📖 Worth a Read: Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe → (NY Times)