FDA Demands Extra Run, Threatens Grace Science’s Gene Therapy
Grace Science (co-founded by Carolyn Bertozzi) is running out of cash and says the FDA didn't let them use the "plausible mechanism" pathway bc, although they're developing an ultra-rare gene therapy, it's not an n-of-1 therapy. The FDA is also requesting a 2nd manufacturing run prior to BLA submission - a move the co. says could end it https://t.co/v8n2qDx2og
Airbus Pivots to Uncrewed Combat Drones Amid Fighter Setbacks
Ravenstorm At The Center Of Airbus’s New Combat Drone Portfolio As Europe’s flagship next-generation fighter effort unravels, Airbus is betting heavily on uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft. https://t.co/XqSYpohlLu
Riot Revives Canceled Sub‑gift Promo Despite Prior Backlash
The first test will be with Riot Games (2XKO, Valorant, LoL), where gifting 5 subs will grant at least 1 Bonus Sub. Riot and Twitch tried nearly this EXACT promotion earlier this year, as a zero-pay sponsorship. But canceled it due...
Merck, Gilead Deliver Mixed Results in Lung Cancer, HIV Trials
Merck, Gilead report mixed outcomes in key lung cancer, HIV studies https://t.co/V5i3QEQmN8 by @Lilah_Alvarado $GILD $MRK $AZN
Speak Your Audience’s Language, Not Your Own
Mike loved building cars on YouTube. He spent hours out in the garage filming rust repair, chrome bumpers, even full restorations. But for months, almost nobody watched. One video after another led to more and more disappointment. The car builds were...
New Glenn Slated for Artemis III, Launch Pad Remains Unclear
NASA's Jeremy Parsons: "We are confident New Glenn will be ready for Artemis III." Technically he did not say anything about the launch pad. 😉
Oil Traffic Through Strait of Hormuz Increases Significantly
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said oil traffic throughout the Strait of Hormuz has risen “very meaningfully.”
Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Set for 2026 Switch 2
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake announced for 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2. https://t.co/rNavytLiTA
First‑time Buyers Finance 93% of Home Purchases
The denominator factor does play here On these monthly reports, if mortgage demand picks up on low-level sales activity, the first-time homebuyer % does increase. Housing shifted mid-June 2025, so easy YoY comp First-time home buyers do finance 93% of their purchases
Record High First‑Time Buyer Reads, Yet Denominator Matters
That's one of the highest first-time home buyer % reads in the past few years, mind the denominator factor here 🫡
US PMI Recovery Set to Make Copper Top Performer
@Jefferies' analysis out this morning states that they expect the US to drive up all industrial commodities... with copper as the best performer. "Our analysis suggests the recovery in US PMI data should begin to feed through into copper demand in...
Twitch Tests Category-Wide Bonus Sub Promotions, Creators Opt-In
Twitch will soon test Category-Wide Promotions, which will allow advertisers to offer Bonus Subs across an entire category. In most cases, it will be Gift X Subs, Get Y Bonus Subs. Creators will be opted in by default, but can opt out.
U.S. Tariffs Block Chinese EVs, Losing Global Market
Why the U.S. is missing out on the global electric car boom Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall. https://t.co/T0Y0CGzgLt
Accuracy Beats Scale in Digital Advertising Data
Everyone talks about scale. Far fewer people talk about accuracy. In the latest episode of the AdTechGod Pod, I sat down with Scott M. McKinley, Founder & CEO of Truthset joins me to discuss one of digital advertising's biggest challenges: the quality...
Mortgage Rates Likely Stay Above 5% Short Term
Economists got some bad news for homebuyers and sellers still hoping for a swift return to sub 5.00% mortgage rates Unless something material shifts in the economy, models don't expect a big short-term drop in mortgage rates @MalasMeghan for ResiClub: https://t.co/rGzLK6vezQ
Long‑term Multimorbidity Profiles Boost Precise Glycemic Care
Longitudinal multimorbidity trajectories shape personalized glycaemic patterns "...suggests that integrating longitudinal multimorbidity profiling with circulating proteomics may enhance precision glycaemic management, offering actionable insights for dietary interventions in the older population." https://t.co/hvpr59aT9e
CFPB Purges Crucial Consumer Data, Raising Transparency Concerns
The CFPB website hosts a lot of useful information for consumers, in add’l to materials that we reference in the industry. Erasing all of this data serves no one. What on earth is going on?? https://www.americanbanker.com/news/in-ongoing-records-purge-cfpb-deletes-supervisory-reports?utm_campaign=NL_AB_Daily_Briefing_06092026&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&campaignname=NL_AB_Daily_Briefing_06092026&oly_enc_id=6466G4026034J4A
FedEx Freight Tops LTL Market, yet Media Stays Silent
Last week, FedEx Freight became the largest LTL provider in North America with $9 Billion in revenue, 40,000 employees, and 1.3 billion miles traveled annually. So why was the media coverage so... 🥱? https://t.co/6svFT4Jqcq @artofsupply https://t.co/ndIJFfx0Dk
IBS Often Rooted in SIBO From Food Poisoning
For decades, medicine treated irritable bowel syndrome as a stress disease. Mark Pimentel, MD, a gastroenterologist, says about 60 percent of it is something else entirely. It's small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO. The wrong bacteria colonize the small intestine,...
55‑60 Mph Is Fuel‑saving Sweet Spot, But
"Running at 55 MPH to Save Pennies" "A transportation analytics company found commercial drivers drove 4% more slowly in late April than at the start of the year. Driving at a steady 55 to 60 mph, Magill said, hits “the sweet spot”...
Fox One CEO on World Cup Subscription Strategy
🎙️ NEW: Fox One C.E.O. Pete Distad joins me ahead of this week’s World Cup kickoff to explain how the streamer plans to leverage the tournament to attract and retain new subscribers—and assess the broader challenges and opportunities facing the...
Brent Calendar Spread Halves as Hormuz Traffic Expected
BRENT’s six-month calendar spread has almost halved as prices for nearby futures contracts fall much faster than for later-dated ones. The inflation-adjusted spread has averaged just under $11 per barrel so far in June (96th percentile for all months since...
Kuwait Begins Direct Asian Crude Sales, Boosting Dark Shipments
Kuwait is offering to sell its crude to refiners in Asia for the first time since the Iran war started. Another key sign that more Middle Eastern crude is flowing “dark” via the Strait of Hormuz by tanker (on top of...
AI Bridges Virtual Training to Real‑world Robot Tasks
New #AI system helps #Robots transfer virtual training into real-world tasks by Neetika Walter @IntEngineering Learn more: https://t.co/oh6QGCh3kM #Robotics #Technology #Engineering #Innovation https://t.co/my4SZNHVeP
Mission300 Launches African Center of Excellence for Energy
#Mission300 continues to gain momentum and electrify communities across #Africa. It is great to see the recent launch of a regional Center of Excellence to expand productive use of energy across Africa. https://t.co/WLNfIFVjhK https://t.co/tq0AvXoHQI
Asia's Energy Security Tested: Demand Surge Demands Resilient Mix
Energy security becomes most visible when the system is under pressure. That is what makes Asia’s energy landscape so important right now. Across the region, demand is not just growing. It is being pulled forward by industrial expansion, urbanization, electrification,...
Isar Plans June Qualification Launch of Five Cubesats
Isar says will attempt a qualification launch w/ 5 cubesats & 1 @esa experiment, between June 15 and June 21 from Norway's @AndoyaSpace range.
Saudi Oil Revenues Surge 36% Despite Volume Decline
Things that make you go hmm: Saudi Arabia's oil export revenues rose 36% year-on-year to 93 billion riyals ($25 billion) in March despite a decline of more than 30% in crude and refined product export volumes, as higher oil prices boosted...
NioCorp Secures Traxys Offtake for Elk Creek Metals
NioCorp signs Traxys offtake deal covering Elk Creek ferro-niobium, scandium, titanium and rare earths. https://www.metalnomist.com/2026/06/niocorp-traxys-offtake-agreement.html
NASA Pushes Artemis III Crew Reveal to 11:30 Am ET
NASA just updated the time when it will announce the Artemis III crew tomorrow (June 9): now at 11:30 am ET instead of 11:00 am ET. https://t.co/u9YkZ7dMVe
IOS 27 Auto‑Fixes Travel Passwords with Apple Intelligence
Apple just fixed a travel security nightmare 👀 Your miles, points, and credit cards are sitting behind passwords you’ve reused — exactly how these accounts get hacked. Soon, your iPhone will fix them for you. It’s called Automatically Fix Passwords, coming in...
Musk Abandons California, SpaceX IPO May Boost State Taxes
NEW: Elon Musk quit California after years of attacking its taxes, politics and business climate, moving SpaceX to Texas. But its IPO, the biggest fiscal event of his career, could hand the state he trashed a giant tax windfall https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2026/06/09/spacex-left-california-its-ipo-payday-did-not/
Canadian Auto Industry Endures Trump Tariffs, Finds Bright Spots
Canada's Automakers Hanging On Despite Trump Tariffs Not all good news - lost jobs, plant closures, local business impacts - but there are some bright spots for the industry. https://youtu.be/w7fQxIvzHCs
SGLT2 Inhibitor Cuts Heart‑failure Hospitalizations >80% in Variant Carriers
A sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 drug (SGLT2) was linked to >80% reduction of hospitalization for heart failure in people who carried a disease-causing (pathogenic or likely pathogenic) genomic variant. Compared with placebo in a randomized trial with subsequent exome sequencing...
OpenAI Launches IPO, Testing Investor Appetite for AI Labs
OpenAI Kicks Off IPO Process in Test of Investor Appetite for Top AI Labs https://buff.ly/CqE7mZ2
Tasmania’s Data Centers Accelerate Climate Impact Amid Renewable Gap
Tasmania is a great case study of how data centres in Australia are worsening climate change - No real plan for truly new renewable energy - Electrification of heavy industry struggles while big tech breezes through https://www.afr.com/companies/infrastructure/26-000-nvidia-chips-15pc-of-tasmania-s-power-does-this-ai-factory-add-up-20260424-p5zqs1
AMD Commits £2 Bn to UK AI over Five Years
Great to be at @LDNTechWeek today with @Keir_Starmer and leaders across the UK tech ecosystem. @AMD is proud to expand our presence in the UK with plans to invest up to £2 billion over the next 5 years to...
Headwater Gold Secures Rare Large-Scale Nevada Gold Project
In May, @HeadwaterGold announced it acquired the Jupiter project, a new district-scale epithermal gold project in Nevada. CEO Caleb Stroup said large-scale alteration systems like this are "not all that common." $HWG https://t.co/PtcfZOiW20 https://t.co/yFe7ULc2OC
Senators Push Port Fees to Counter Chinese Shipping Dominance
Senators Urge Trump Administration to Reinstate Port Fees on Chinese Ships. For funding for American shipbuilding. Which cuts into Chinese maritime dominance. https://t.co/BaSoDQRnqS
China's UHV Grid Outpaces World, Powers Clean Energy
While so many countries are paralyzed with fragmented grids, zoning headaches and 5-year waiting lists just to plug in 1 solar farm, China has already built 46 UHV (Ultra-High Voltage) transmission lines spanning over 60,000 kilometers (enough high-tech wires to...
Zoledronic Acid Prevents Bone Loss in Lymphoma Therapy
Zoledronic Acid for Prevention of Bone Loss in Patients Receiving Primary Therapy for Lymphomas: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Phase III Trial [Dec 29, 2012] @Lymphoma_Doc @mtmdphd et al. CLML https://t.co/iPOYSXEA1M #lymsm #SuppOnc #BoneHealth #NCT00352846
Court Strikes Down Trump’s Solar, Wind Tax Credit Limits
Federal Court Tosses Out Trump’s Limits on Solar and Wind Tax Credits #energysky -- via Heatmap News https://t.co/JPrZDX53QP https://t.co/ln4Odu4O4E
Data Centers Power the Surge in Clean Energy
In the latest Current Climate newsletter: ☀️ Data centers are increasingly unpopular, but they have one silver lining: they're underpinning the green energy growth 🔋A highly valued home battery startup ⚡ Ex-Meta CTO is betting on clean energy technology https://www.forbes.com/sites/current-climate/2026/06/08/data-center-silver-lining-theyre-powering-clean-energy-growth/
First Prenatal Gene Therapy Trial Targets GM1 Disorder
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have launched a first-in-human prenatal gene therapy trial for GM1 gangliosidosis, aiming to treat the disease before birth and potentially open the door to fetal gene therapies for a wide range of...
Xbox Gamepass Price Hike Cost Millions of Subscribers
Matthew Ball says Xbox shed “millions of subscribers” when the Gamepass price increased 50 percent in Fall 2025. https://t.co/ESCr1iOEV8
Energy Transition Thriving, Says $1.5T LGIM
“There has been this market narrative that the energy transition has slowed and perhaps is even heading into reverse in some places. From what we can see of the data, the energy transition is alive and well,” says LGIM with...
Intel's SiPho Success Prompted
Yes. Intel SiPho so radically successful they offed the business to Jabil and all the people left. There is a reason the OFC slide is from 2024, and not 2026.
J&J to Buy Firefly, Securing Degrader Antibody Platform
J&J to acquire Firefly, maker of ‘degrader’ antibody drugs, for up to $1B https://t.co/7LR42oP7kZ by @gwendolynawu #biotech $JNJ
Verizon Taps Ex‑Telekom Exec to Drive Open RAN, AI
.@Verizon naming Abdu Mudasir to lead its network operations marks the latest move in a growing talent pipeline from @Telekom to the US carriers. Mudasir replaces Joe Russo and brings a global perspective on Open RAN and AI automation that...
What Top VC Seeks in Modern Defense Technology
From last week's @EquityPod, I sat down with @fubini, the guy who wrote Anduril's first check, about what he's looking for in defense tech today. Link 👇 (avail on spotify, apple, wherever you listen) https://t.co/cprK1Q5kTY