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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and Paralympics to sell naming rights to the competition venues, a first for the Olympic Games (More) | The challenge of hosting the Olympics (1440 Topics)

> LL Cool J tapped to host 2025 MTV Video Music Awards (Sept. 7); will be simulcast on CBS, along with MTV and Paramount+, for first time (More)

> The 2025-26 English Premier League season kicks off today; see predicted order of finish and previews for all 20 teams (More) | NBA approves sale of Boston Celtics to private equity mogul Bill Chisholm at a $6.1B valuation, a record price for an American sports team (More)


Science & Technology
> Leaked internal Meta document reveals the company's AI chatbots were allowed to engage in "sensual" or "romantic" conversations with minors; company says it has since struck the guideline; see investigative report (More)

> AI drug discovery platform helps researchers sift through tens of millions of potential drug compounds to identify new classes of antibiotics; two candidates cleared drug-resistant gonorrhea and staph infections in mice (More) | How superbugs evolve (1440 Topics)

> Scientists create new stable carbon structure, the first such demonstration since "buckyballs"—ball-shaped arrangements of 60 carbon atoms—in 1990 (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close near flatline (S&P 500 +0.0%, Dow -0.0%, Nasdaq -0.0%) as US producer price index—key inflation metric tracking wholesale product prices—shows 0.9% rise in July, the highest monthly gain in three years (More)

> Average US 30-year fixed mortgage rate drops to 6.58%, the lowest level since October (More) | Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reveals roughly $1.6B stake in UnitedHealth (More)

> Nearly 16% of venture-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, when a startup raises money at a lower valuation than in its previous funding round; figure marks a decade high, per new data (More) | Venture capital explained using Lego bricks (1440 Topics)


Politics & World Affairs
> California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will call a special election Nov. 4 to vote on redrawn maps in an effort to secure five more Democratic House seats in midterms; follows Texas' plan to redistrict in favor of Republicans (More)

> Florida announces new $6M detention center, "Deportation Depot," opening in two weeks; will house over 1,300 people (More) | Supreme Court allows Mississippi law requiring social media to verify children's ages to stay in effect for now (More)

> Tropical Storm Erin expected to reach hurricane strength later today, with winds of at least 74 mph—first hurricane of 2025 Atlantic season; see path (More) | How we track hurricanes (1440 Topics)

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