Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Pro Football Hall of Fame to induct 2025 class tomorrow featuring Antonio Gates, Sterling Sharpe, Eric Allen, and Jared Allen (More) | ESPN cut ties with Shannon Sharpe after Sharpe settles sexual assault lawsuit (More)
> Justin Timberlake reveals Lyme disease diagnosis, which left the singer dealing with nerve pain and fatigue while in the middle of his world concert tour (More)
> Sean "Diddy" Combs requests conviction be overturned ahead of his October sentencing (More) | UFC star Conor McGregor loses appeal in civil sexual assault case; McGregor was found liable for sexually assaulting a woman in 2018 (More)
Science & Technology
> Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEarth Foundations, combining its AI models with observational data from satellites; platform allows researchers unprecedented detail in monitoring changes on the planet's surface (More)
> Modern potatoes originated from a chance cross-pollination between ancient tomato plants and a related plant species; event occurred roughly 9 million years ago near the Andes Mountains, per study (More)
> Neuroscientists pinpoint brain region that helps distinguish between solid objects and viscous fluids; findings shed light on how the brain evolved to interact with the physical world (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.4%, Dow -0.7%, Nasdaq -0.0%) (More) | Core personal consumption expenditures price index, which measures costs consumers pay across a wide range of items, excluding food and energy, rose 2.8% year over year in June; figure matches May's upwardly revised rate (More)
> Figma shares more than triple in NYSE debut, valuing design-software maker at roughly $48B (More) | Reddit shares rise over 10% in after-hours trading after better-than-expected Q2 results (More) | Apple reports largest revenue growth since December 2021 (More)
> OpenAI reaches $12B in annualized revenue; reports 700 million weekly active users for its ChatGPT products (More) | ... and will build its first European AI data center in Norway (More) | Learn more about OpenAI (1440 Topics)
Politics & World Affairs
> Ukraine's parliament passes legislation restoring the powers of two anticorruption agencies after domestic protests; the new bill reverses a move last week to sideline the agencies over allegations they were filled with Russian agents (More)
> US Northeast braces for torrential rain and possible flash flooding, with states of emergency declared in New Jersey, New York City (More)
> Texas' Kerr County emergency management director tells state lawmakers he was out sick, asleep when the Guadalupe River began seeing catastrophic flooding early last month (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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