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Trump administration ends Medicaid funding for sex-change procedures for minors, including puberty blockers, hormones, & surgeries.

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin’s startup River AI raises $1,100,000,000.00 with backing from Nvidia & Y Combinator.

FDA issues new food safety guidance for freshly cut fruits & vegetables amid a surge in foodborne illness outbreaks.

Will Mamdani announce reparations for slavery?

Trump to explore whether the federal government can legally block New York City’s pied-à-terre tax & congestion pricing.

State Department declares “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” reaffirming the Monroe Doctrine.

NY Fed reveals Americans took out a record $211,000,000,000.00 in auto loans last quarter.

Spotify will begin labeling AI-generated artist profiles & stop recommending their songs by default, as the platform cracks down on “slop music”

Joby Aviation to acquire defense tech company Resonant Sciences for $500 million.

U.S. existing home sales fell for a second straight month in July as mortgage rates climbed to their highest level in a year.

White House lifts ban on TikTok from federal government devices, after concluding the app no longer poses a national security threat.

EU begins restricting “forever chemicals” in food packaging as new rules take effect.

Trump calls Iran “very devious negotiators”

Russia frees former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman after Putin approved a humanitarian pardon.

Abdul El-Sayed scrubbed at least 100 YouTube videos, including one arguing July 4th fireworks "suck” & another floating replacing the Second Amendment with a right to health care. — CNN

Massive jellyfish swarm shuts down three reactors at French nuclear power plant.

Global ocean temperatures hit a record high for July, surpassing the previous 2023 record.

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a free open-source AI model that can run on a single GPU.

Trump Media reveals 10+ customers have signed up for Truth API, paying up to $100,000 per month for faster access to Truth Social posts.

Russia’s central bank officially authorizes regulated trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum, & USDT on Russian exchanges.

Norway wealth fund CEO warns the country’s $2 trillion fund could one day “disappear altogether.”

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon declares the American Dream is still “totally achievable” for most Americans.

IBM & Together AI sign a $240 million deal to build a large-scale Nvidia-powered AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud.

Pakistan’s defense minister reveals the U.S. & Iran are “close to some sort of an arrangement” on peace.

Syrian court sentences former dictator Bashar al-Assad to death for war crimes & crimes against humanity.

Dating app Bumble will now let men make the first move, ending its signature women-first messaging model.

South African unemployment rate soars to 33.6%

Francesca Hong admits her resurfaced posts calling to abolish police & the U.S. Senate were “bad takes.”

Wisconsin Governor Democratic Primary Margin of Victory

Andy Burnham announces crackdown on UK vape shops.

Amber heat health alerts take effect across almost all of England as the country enters its fifth heatwave of the year.

Turkish parliament approves legislation to dissolve and disarm the PKK, with amnesty for some former militants.

England is reportedly on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C.

How many ships transit Bab el-Mandeb Strait this week?

Nigel Farage pledges to deport every foreign criminal in UK prisons if Reform is elected.

WHO reveals Ebola was spreading in DR Congo for at least three months before officials declared the outbreak.

Will Kai or Speed have more in-game Minecraft deaths?

China condemns India for renaming 27 sites in disputed Arunachal Pradesh, insisting the territory belongs to Beijing.

Russia bars its only officially registered anti-war party from September’s parliamentary vote.

Australia & Vietnam deepen strategic ties, pledging closer cooperation on semiconductors, critical minerals, & clean energy.

Taiwan launches a 10-day war simulation preparing for a potential Chinese invasion.

Singapore raises its 2026 growth forecast to as high as 5.5%, driven by the AI investment boom.

OpenAI is hiring a “Power Trading Lead” to manage energy hedging & risk across its massive data center power portfolio.

Zuckerberg declares there is “no such thing as a singular benevolent superintelligence.”

Microsoft warns Russian hackers have compromised hotel Wi-Fi networks in a widespread campaign to steal credentials & remotely hijack devices.

Beijing could reportedly receive more than one-third of its annual rainfall in just 24 hours beginning Tuesday.

Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5’s introductory pricing permanent at $2 per million input tokens & $10 per million output tokens.

Florida to begin testing electric “air taxis” by the end of 2026.

Trump warns FIFA it will “never be as successful or profitable again” if Gianni Infantino is replaced.

Parents are reportedly paying up to $6,500 for “rush coaches” to help their daughters get into college sororities.

Massachusetts becomes the 10th state to allow abortion at any point in pregnancy.

Anthropic signs a $9.1 billion, 20-year deal with Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms to secure AI compute capacity.

Fidelity analysis reveals women investors outperformed men over three years, returning 50% versus 47%.

EU unveils official icons for labeling AI-generated & manipulated content under the AI Act.

Trump Media discloses holding approximately 14,139 Bitcoin.

OpenAI’s head of ethics is leaving the company less than one year after joining. — FT

Arkansas high school football player unknowingly practices for an hour with a venomous snake inside his helmet.

Jensen Huang reveals Nvidia is helping make AI compute an investable asset class.

Irish government launches public campaign warning about “tradwife” & manosphere influencers, claiming they reinforce harmful stereotypes.

Bitcoin projected to plunge below $55,000 by the end of the year. 57% chance.

U.S. appeals court allows more than 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, TikTok, Google, & Snap over alleged social media addiction to move forward.

Claude will now invisibly watermark AI-generated text so it can be detected after being copied & pasted.

Rocket Lab revenue soars +62% to a record $234 million.

Mark Zuckerberg predicts AI will lead to an “abundance of jobs” rather than mass unemployment.

OpenAI buys back ~$7,000,000,000.00 in employee shares ahead of a potential IPO.

Former Biden COVID response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha reveals he now believes COVID-19 “probably was a lab leak.”

Fiat Panda crashes into a private jet at Milan Linate Airport.

Rand Paul & Ron Johnson release more than 34,000 texts from Anthony Fauci’s government phone.

Grindr CEO reveals AI has eliminated the need to hire roughly 200 additional engineers.

Mamdani unveils plan for NYC’s first “Thermal Energy Network,” capturing excess subway heat to warm nearby buildings in winter.