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Good morning. It's Monday, June 15. The US and Iran appear to have reached a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Also in today's Digest: the New York Knicks end a 53-year drought (Need To Know), a fight card on the White House lawn (Sports, Ent., & Cult.), Paramount-Warner Bros. merger gets the all-clear (Bus. & Mkts.), a pickle renaissance (Etc.), and much more.
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Need To Know
Iran Deal Reached
The US and Iran have agreed to extend their ceasefire by 60 days, President Donald Trump and mediators revealed yesterday. The countries are scheduled to sign a deal Friday in Switzerland. Oil prices fell on the news.
Iran has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial vessels "toll-free," Trump says, and the US will end its naval blockade on Iranian ports. The ceasefire is also predicated on an end to the conflict in Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting the Iranian-backed Hezbollah. Details surrounding Iran’s nuclear program—including the fate of its stockpile of enriched uranium—are slated to be discussed after the deal is signed. The full text was not publicly available as of this writing.
The agreement was announced hours before Trump traveled to France for this year's G7 summit. In addition to the US war with Iran, the countries will discuss multilateral trade, among other issues. Learn more about the G7 here.
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Knicks End Title Drought
The New York Knicks won the NBA championship Saturday night, rallying from a 16-point deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90, ending the series in five games. It ends a 53-year title drought for the Knicks, the sixth-most valuable sports brand (about $9.8B), and marks the third title in franchise history.
The win caps a dominant playoff run, with New York winning 15 of its last 16 games. It will also be remembered as one of the most clutch postseason performances—the Knicks were 6-2 in games where they trailed by double digits, including a historic 29-point comeback in Game 4 against the Spurs (rewatch the final minutes). Star guard Jalen Brunson, who scored 45 points in 41 minutes Saturday, was named Finals MVP.
Celebrations turned to chaos outside Madison Square Garden, as unruly fans ran through the streets and reportedly set five school buses on fire, with more than 60 people arrested.
🫶 Humankind: Farmer skips patch to protect a mother bird and her unhatched eggs (via Reddit, w/video).
Mythos Shut Down
Anthropic shut down its latest Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models Friday night. The company said it did so to comply with a government order barring foreign nationals from accessing the models.
Anthropic first shared Mythos with over 40 technology companies in April (see previous write-up). The goal was to help organizations overseeing critical computer infrastructure—including Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft—to identify bugs in their systems. Mythos uncovered thousands of severe or critical vulnerabilities within weeks, and Anthropic said it would not roll out the model publicly to prevent hackers from gaining access to it.
However, the company has since given Mythos to more than 150 other organizations. Last week, it publicly released Fable, a version of Mythos with added safeguards. Since then, Amazon has reportedly flagged to the White House an instance in which someone was able to sidestep Fable’s safeguards.
See what makes Mythos so special here.
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In The Know
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> White House’s UFC Freedom 250 delayed by rain, with undefeated lightweight champ Ilia Topuria facing Justin Gaethje at the top of the card; see results (More) | Carolina Hurricanes win the Stanley Cup in Game 6, ending 20-year championship drought (More) | Lewis Hamilton wins Formula 1 race in Barcelona (More)
> Oliver Tree, US rapper and singer behind "Life Goes On" and "Miss You," dies in helicopter crash in Brazil at age 32 alongside five others (More) | See the bowl-cut singer's biggest hit (More, via YouTube)
> Australia's "Socceroos" blank Turkey 2-0 in the biggest upset of the first few days of the World Cup (More) | Watch Curaçao**,** the smallest nation to ever make the tournament, score its first World Cup goal (More)
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Science & Technology
> Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches close to 680 confirmed cases, almost 140 deaths; new cases reported in a displacement camp with 30,000 occupants (More) | What makes Ebola so deadly? (More, w/video)
> Venus flytrap study reveals a rapid softening of the plant's outer cells causes its "mouth" to snap shut; findings overturn current theory the motion is caused by water movement (More) | Watch in slow motion (More)
> Researchers discover using nickel oxides during hydrogen-based steel production can double the production speed; traditional steel and metal production account for roughly 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets rise Friday (S&P 500 +0.5%, Dow +0.7%, Nasdaq +0.3%); SpaceX jumps 19% during market debut, becomes 6th most valuable US company with a $2.1T market cap (More) | Elon Musk officially becomes the world's first trillionaire, up from a net worth of $14B in 2017 (More, w/visualization)
> Justice Department approves $111B Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger without requiring any divestitures or modifications (More) | Visualize the media assets that would roll into the massive new company (More)
> Professional services firm KPMG pulls report on use of AI in business after claims the study contained numerous inaccuracies stemming from the authors' use of AI and resulting hallucinations (More)
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Politics & World Affairs
> Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at 10 million people (More) | More than 40% of the country has a "migration background," official records show (More)
> A verdict is expected today for Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway's crown princess; Høiby faces 40 criminal charges, including rape (More) | See previous write-up (More) | ... and the Norwegian royal family tree (More)
> Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is hospitalized; his team has not disclosed what prompted the need for medical care as of this writing (More) | See how the age of US Congress members has evolved over time (More; scroll for graph)
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Etcetera
Peruvian police dress up as World Cup mascots for drug bust.
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Gene-modifying therapy sees lupus patients in remission.
Minnesota woman saved from quicksand-like mud pit after several days.
Taxes on data centers net some Louisiana teachers $50K bonuses.
Why are Dutch kids the happiest in the world?
New video game is all about walking and talking.
Nuclear clock could be the most precise in the world.
Clickbait: Are we experiencing a pickle renaissance?
Historybook: King John seals the Magna Carta (1215); Margaret Jones becomes first person executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts Bay Colony (1648); Chinese president Xi Jinping born (1953); American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald dies (1996).
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