🤖 AI & Tech Platforms
* Ferrari Luce EV drew online criticism for its blob-like shape lacking traditional DNA, sending shares down more than 8 percent — The Vergecast
* Luca di Montezemolo warned the $640,000 Luce design risks destroying Ferrari’s brand legend and said the Chinese would not copy it — Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
* Handwriting and smartphones train human movements in brand-specific ways that serve corporate interests over open creativity — Science Quickly
* Jacquard loom punch cards replaced skilled weavers and directly prefigured modern computation in the 19th century — Science Quickly
* San Francisco police recorded a 30 percent overall crime reduction and 40 percent drop in auto theft after deploying dock drones — TED Talks Daily
* Skydio drones now place 5 percent of the US population within a two-minute flight of real-time aerial tracking — TED Talks Daily
* Large language models persuaded participants to abandon conspiracy beliefs from 9/11 to the Kennedy assassination for about two months — WSJ Tech News Briefing
* Synthesis client saw its internal council block every AI initiative for eight to 10 months despite 90-minute planning sessions — The Digital Executive
* Elizabeth Warren and Mark Cuban both called for taxing AI tokens or data-center energy to fund worker retraining — The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
* Andrew Miller predicts robotaxi hailing will feel routine in most major North American cities within ten years — Hard Fork
* Waymo, Zoox and Tesla scaling will deliver the largest immediate public-safety gain by eliminating driver-error fatalities — Hard Fork
* Lamborghini and Porsche publicly mocked the Ferrari Luce design while reviewers called it a technology showcase, not a volume car — Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
💼 Business & Markets
* Dell stock jumped 38 percent to an all-time high after projecting $167 billion fiscal 2027 revenue including $60 billion from AI servers — Bloomberg Daybreak: US Edition
* Coke Zero Sugar overtook Diet Coke in US sales for the first time as zero-sugar sodas drove 52 percent of soda growth — The Best One Yet
* Anthropic and OpenAI already add more monthly revenue than Meta, Google or Microsoft combined with a $200 billion joint run rate projected — The a16z Show
* Anthropic raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI for the first time with Google and Amazon participation — Mo News
* Carvana’s Casa Grande Arizona store jumped from dozens to 350 monthly sales after the company took over operations — The Journal.
* Prediction markets and tokenized equities on Hyperliquid have replaced altcoins as the main speculative casino for 24/7 leveraged trading — CoinDesk Podcast Network
* AI accounts for half of investment-grade bond issuance year-to-date and nearly 40 percent of junk issuance — Odd Lots
* MTV Networks hit $8-9 billion peak revenue by building subscriber, ad and consumer-product streams around Nickelodeon IP — My First Million
* Blue Origin’s New Glenn 320-foot rocket exploded during a Florida static-fire test with no injuries reported — Wall Street Breakfast
* Personal savings rate fell to 2.6 percent in April, the lowest since mid-2022, as households drew down buffers — The Indicator from Planet Money
* April PCE inflation reached 3.8 percent, the highest level since May 2023, coinciding with the savings-rate drop — Marketplace
* Vincent Taylor pocketed $3,000 on a boiler job after subcontracting via a $300 Penny Saver ad with minimal training — Earn Your Leisure
* Treasury Department rolled out the Trump Account app allowing parents to open custodial accounts with $1,000 government seed money — Bloomberg Surveillance
🌍 Geopolitics & Global Affairs
* Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to take control of 70 percent of Gaza territory, exceeding the 50 percent under the original ceasefire — NPR News Now
* Captain Virendra Vishwakarma estimated only a 10 percent survival chance while following a secret Indian navy route out of the Strait of Hormuz — The Daily
* Israeli forces intensified attacks on a Beirut suburb and expanded control in southern Lebanon and Gaza — Up First from NPR
* US and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative 60-day ceasefire extension while continuing nuclear talks — Morning Wire
* Uppsala Conflict Data Program logged 61 active state-based conflicts in 2024, the highest since 1946 records began — Economist Podcasts
* Iran is pushing for a $12 billion Qatari loan and oil sales before making nuclear concessions in US talks — Israel Daily News Podcast
* Hezbollah fiber-optic drones have become the main threat to Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon — Global News Podcast
* Trump administration charged Raúl Castro with crimes to establish legal grounds for potential military action against Cuba — WSJ What’s News
📜 Politics & Immigration
* Immigration courts suddenly summoned over 100 people at once for hearings previously scheduled years out — The NPR Politics Podcast
* President Trump settled his $10 billion IRS lawsuit by directing nearly $1.8 billion into a secretive Treasury slush fund — Search Engine
* Rep. Jim Jordan said 18 cities, 11 states, three counties and D.C. now bar police from honoring ICE detainers — The Sean Hannity Show
* Jill Biden revealed she thought President Biden was having a stroke during the June 2024 debate and was “scared to death” — Pod Save America
* Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a hijab at a New York Eid event with Zoran Mamdani to show solidarity with radical immigrant voices — The Ben Shapiro Show
* DOJ opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll to determine whether she committed perjury in her 2022 deposition — The Megyn Kelly Show
* Peter Navarro intervened to secure a $620 million Pentagon loan for Vulcan Elements linked to Donald Trump Jr. — Pablo Torre Finds Out
🧬 Science & Health
* Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease processes begin at age 30 when skeletal muscle is neglected — The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
* NASA will attach new commercial modules to the ISS before deorbiting the remainder in 2030-2031 — StarTalk Radio
* James Webb Space Telescope found tidally locked exoplanet WASP-94Ab has permanent day and night sides with fast winds — Short Wave
* National Quarantine Unit in Omaha is housing 18 cruise-ship passengers exposed to hantavirus since May 11 — Science Friday
* Richard Feynman took psilocybin and LSD at the Esalen Institute near the end of his life guided by three women — Freakonomics Radio
🎭 Culture, Media & Faith
* Charlie Benante revealed Anthrax’s first single in nearly a decade, “It’s For The Kids,” from the upcoming album Cursum Proficio — Talk Is Jericho
* Hundreds of teenage boys joined a TikTok trend speedrunning through Church of Scientology facilities from Vancouver to Hamburg — Endless Thread
* George Lilacakis makes handmade wing bone calls and belongs to the New York City flock of Turkeys for Tomorrow — Bear Grease
* Chris Klemmer and his wife Laura are expecting their first child, a boy due in early September, at age 46 — The Kirk Minihane Show
* Looksmaxers perform “bone smashing” by hitting their faces with hammers to reshape jawlines starting at age 14 — The Gray Area with Sean Illing
* Glenn Beck argues Steven Spielberg’s new alien film may be government-backed messaging on non-human intelligence — The Glenn Beck Program
🧠 Personal Development
* Dr. Becky Kennedy says a good parent treats parenting as self-growth and activates curiosity over judgment — The Tim Ferriss Show
* Emmanuel Acho stopped setting goals after an NFL injury and now uses unlimited objectives in media — The School of Greatness
🕵️ Crime & Investigations
* Susan Meachen announced her 2020 suicide then resurrected in 2023 claiming her family posted the hoax — Scam Goddess
* Vikram Digua was convicted of murdering Henry Nowak after stabbing him five times with an 8-inch ceremonial knife — Louder with Crowder
* David J. Rush was arrested after agents found 303 gold bars, $2 million cash and 35 Rolex watches in his home — REAL AF with Andy Frisella
📈 Crypto & Finance
* Vitalik stated that ETH the asset itself is the most high-value product of the Ethereum blockchain — Unchained
🧪 History & Design
* British officials agreed from 1943-1945 to abandon their 55-degree screw-thread standard and match the American 60-degree thread — 99% Invisible
🎤 Music & Entertainment
* Travis Kelce recommends Buzz Lightyear-colored LeBron 13s for raves because basketball shoes provide needed support — New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce