On a Friday evening this July, the Trump administration announced it would lay off all of the health research scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency. Hundreds of investigators who try to understand how toxic pollution affects the human body would be gone. That wasn’t a surprise. The EPA — which had a founding mission to […]

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to €4.2B, MAUs up 11% YoY to 696M, subscribers up 12% YoY to 276M, and an €86M net loss; SPOT drops 9%+ after missing est.  —  The audio streaming service added more listeners than it had forecast, but reported a net loss for the second quarter

Bloomberg:
Sources: Quince, a DTC luxury brand that is viral on Instagram and TikTok, raised ~$200M led by Iconiq at a $4.5B valuation, after raising $120M in January 2025  —  Investment firm Iconiq is leading a roughly $200 million investment in the direct-to-consumer fashion startup.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the US Department of Health and Human Services, has supported the debunked ideas that vaccines cause autism and that organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have helped cover up the link. He’s skeptical of the chemicals in our foods and skies, and worries that we’ve veered […]

Financial Times:
China used its World AI Conference to assert its AI ambitions to an international audience, presenting an alternative to President Trump's “America First” plans  —  Beijing plugs global co-operation and open-source models at first industry show since DeepSeek breakthrough