Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Ozzy Osbourne's final performance with Black Sabbath raises a record-breaking $190M for charity (More) | Unreleased Beyoncé music and concert footage stolen during Cowboy Carter tour stop in Atlanta (More)
> Fauja Singh, Indian-born runner who broke a record by completing a marathon at age 100, dies at age 114 after being hit by a car (More) | David Kaff, actor and musician best known for starring role in "This Is Spinal Tap," dies at age 79 (More)
> Portland's WNBA expansion franchise adopts "Fire" nickname, previously used by the city's prior WNBA team that folded in 2002; the new Portland Fire will begin playing in 2026 (More)
Science & Technology
> AI startup Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Services; platform uses the company's flagship AI model to analyze market trends from a wide range of sources (More) | Google to invest $25B in AI data centers and infrastructure, including a 20-year, $3B contract to purchase Pennsylvania hydropower (More)
> Researchers 3D print biomaterial that mimics living lung tissue; advancement could allow development and testing of treatments for lung diseases without requiring living patients (More)
> Geologists link a meteor impact to a landslide in the Grand Canyon that created a dam and lake along the Colorado River roughly 56,000 years ago (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.4%, Dow -1.0%, Nasdaq +0.2%); Nasdaq hits record, lifted by Nvidia (+4.0%), which plans to resume AI chip sales to China (More) | Nvidia 101 (1440 Topics) | MP Materials, operator of the only US rare earths mine, inks $500M deal with Apple; MP Materials shares close up 20% (More)
> US consumer price index rose 2.7% year over year in June from 2.4% in May, while core inflation—excluding food and energy—rose 2.9% year over year; both figures are in line with estimates (More) | Cryptocurrency regulation bills fail to clear procedural hurdles in Congress (More)
> Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati officially closes $2B seed round for her generative AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, in what is one of the largest first funding rounds in history; deal values startup at $12B (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Republicans vote to avoid Democratic-proposed amendment requiring floor vote on the release of government files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (More) | Justice Department said last week there was no evidence of a client list; read the two-page memo (More)
> Federal grand jury indicts man accused of fatally shooting Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband (More) | Men convicted of cutting down England's Sycamore Gap tree are sentenced to four years and three months in prison (More)
> Canadian wildfire smoke triggers air quality alerts in the Upper Midwest, including Chicago; Toronto air quality ranks among the worst in the world this week (More)
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