Good morning. In this edition:

• 💻 Quantum computing leap
• ⚾ Baseball Hall of Fame induction
• 👪 “F— around and find out” parenting

…and much more.

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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

–Lao Tzu (b. ~571 B.C.)

Much like their AI forebears, quantum computers are slowly making the jump from science fiction to reality.

Scientists at Oxford University recently achieved the lowest quantum computing error rate ever recorded—0.000015%, or one every 6.7 million operations—in a significant step towards making quantum computers widely useful.

What is quantum computing?

It’s the process of using quantum mechanics to perform computing tasks far too difficult for traditional machines.

• To put it simply: where traditional computers use bits, represented as 0s and 1s, quantum computers use qubits, which can be any combination of 0 and 1 at the same time. This allows a single qubit to store far more data than a single bit—and work much, much faster.
• For example, Google’s recently unveiled Willow quantum chip performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years.

However…A major barrier to developing commercial quantum computers is their tendency to make calculation errors due to “noise,” like temperature changes or electromagnetic radiation. Normal computing bits are extremely reliable and rarely fail, but qubits have a relatively massive error rate of ~1 in 1,000, meaning computations become messed up quickly.

How far away is widespread adoption? Short answer: it depends on who you ask. While this new quantum breakthrough will help solve some qubit error rate issues, some experts say the goal of building useful quantum computers is likely still decades years away.

But others are more bullish. These include Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who initially cast doubt on whether useful quantum computers would arrive within two decades but changed his tune months later, saying the tech could be used to “solve some interesting problems in the coming years.”

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BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 🏦 JPMorgan to charge fintech middleman, companies like Plaid that connect apps to traditional checking accounts, fees to access its systems; America’s largest bank by assets says these middlemen are flooding its systems with unnecessary requests.
• 🔀 Warner Bros. Discovery to split into Warner Bros. and Discovery Global; company also revealed top leadership of both new companies in addition to their names.
• 🤝 Tesla and Samsung ink $16.5 billion deal that will see the EV-maker source chips from the South Korean tech giant.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🌐 Virtual private network (VPN) apps shoot to most-downloaded on Apple's App Store in the UK, likely to bypass the country's new Online Safety Act; the law requires platforms with certain adult content to verify the age of UK-based users (ex: Pornhub, Reddit, X).
• 🥳 Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner, Dick Allen, and Dave Parker inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame, the latter two posthumously. | Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders reveals he beat cancer after having bladder removed.
• 🦸 Comic-Con 2025 wrapped up in San Diego over the weekend; click the link to see all the news you may have missed.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 🤖 Johns Hopkins University to license its books to AI firms to train large language models; press arm publishes around 150 books annually, authors would receive a reported $100/title/license.
• 🎶 Elon Musk's The Boring Company unveils plans for the Music City Loop, an underground tunnel connecting downtown Nashville to the city's airport.
• ☄️ Two meteor showers, Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids, to reach their peaks tonight going into tomorrow; expected to produce 20-30 meteors/hour, which could be visible in North America.

US, WORLD & POLITICS

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• 🌎 President Trump says Russia has 10 or 12 days to reach a cease-fire with Ukraine or face increased economic pressure from US, down from previous 50-day deadline. | Israel begins daily fighting pause in parts of Gaza to increase some humanitarian aid; it comes as starvation deaths in Gaza rise to at least 63 in July, per WHO.
• 🙏 Lone gunman kills four people, including one police officer, inside Manhattan building that houses Blackstone offices, NFL headquarters, and other companies; a Blackstone executive is reportedly among those killed; the gunman also fatally shot himself.
• 🏛️ Ghislaine Maxwell files SCOTUS brief to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction on grounds that Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial 2007 plea deal covers her from prosecution. | DOJ launches investigation into renowned NewYork-Presbyterian health system; probe covers whether hospital system violated antitrust laws via hidden deals with insurance companies to keep prices high.

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☝️ You’re looking at some of the winners from the 2025 Mangrove Photography Awards, which aim to show the “beauty and complexity” of mangrove forests and boost conservation efforts for one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems.

🤔 Did You Know? Rapper Eminem is one of the world’s best original Donkey Kong players. He posted a high score of 465,800 on Twitter in 2010, putting him close to the top-30 in the world at that time.

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Yesterday we covered how the US fertility rate fell to an all-time low of ~1.6 children per woman in 2024, with analysts attributing the trend to a variety of factors.

❓ Our question to you: Which of the following best describes your opinion about America’s falling fertility rate?

• It’s a major problem: 25%
• It’s a minor problem: 27%
• It’s not a problem at all: 38%
• Unsure/other: 10%

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

+Note on sample size: We received 2,025 votes and 237 longform responses.

🎼 Trivia: What term describes the rate of speed at which a piece of music is played?

🎪 True or false? Cirque du Soleil hails from France.

🤡 Riddle me this: What goes up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up?

👁️ Photographer Andriana Green creates stunning art pieces using an interesting subject: extreme close-ups of people's eyes.

🚌 Fourteen-year-old Acie Holland III sprang into action when his bus driver fell unconcious, steering the school bus full of students away from oncoming traffic. "Sometimes, you just do what you have to do,” said the teen. “I’m just being me.”

🦔 "I’m rich!" Said the little hedgehog: Check out this adorable animation collaboration by Anna-Laura Sullivan and Beuriot Romain to remind you that sometimes, it really is all about perspective.

+Note: These stories previously appeared in a May 2024 edition of Positive DONUT, our weekly newsletter surfacing all the good things you don't hear about in the news.

🎼 Trivia: Tempo

🎪 T/F: False, it hails from Canada

🤡 Riddle: An umbrella

+Clue for the Games newsletter: One fact that’s helpful to know for today’s Conjoiner sequence: The body uses niacin to turn food into energy.