Good morning. It’s Tuesday, June 3. June — the golden retriever of months — has arrived with all its charm. It’s also the official kickoff to Pride Month, so expect your inbox, skyline, and Target aisles to get very rainbow-coded, very fast. Love wins. Capitalism too. Anyway, your iced coffee is sweating, your calendar is lying to you about how “free” this week is, and your brain is already dreaming about July 4th. Wishing you a short to-do list, a long attention span, and a surprisingly enjoyable scroll. Happy June. Happy Pride. Let’s get into it.

Today’s stories:

• ChatGPT out-empathizes actual therapists

• Google’s Waymo hits 10M driverless rides

• Hailey Bieber's skincare scores $1B exit

• JetBlue, United unite for loyalty perks

• ‘Lilo & Stitch’ hits $610M worldwide

• Taylor Swift buys back her masters

• Tesla eyes Austin robotaxi launch

• Elon plans giant rocket garage

• Apple plans iOS leap to 26

  and more…

U.S. stocks rose Monday despite fresh U.S.-China trade tensions. The Nasdaq led with a 0.7% gain after Beijing denied breaking the truce and blamed Washington for “discriminatory” moves like AI chip curbs and visa revocations.

Treasury Secretary Bessent sounded optimistic, saying Trump and Xi will “iron things out.” The S&P 500 added 0.41%, while the Dow inched up just 35 points. Meanwhile, global markets dipped, and EU officials warned of countermeasures after Trump moved to double steel and aluminum tariffs starting Wednesday.

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Hailey Bieber Just Cashed Out $1 Billion for a 10-Product Skincare Line

Hailey Bieber just sold Rhode, her under-3-year-old skincare brand, to E.L.F. Beauty for $800 million upfront, with another $200 million on the table. That’s $1 billion for a company with ten products and a vibe. Beauty insiders are still trying to process it. Brands like Glow Recipe, Makeup by Mario, and One/Size have been grinding longer and selling more — but none of them married a pop star, survived TikTok scandals, and launched lip gloss out of a phone case. Rhode raked in $212 million in sales by March. Fans camp out for 14 hours to buy her products and, more importantly, her aesthetic. E.L.F. called that loyalty. Everyone else is calling it sorcery.

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JetBlue and United launch ‘Blue Sky’ to share miles and maybe survive. JetBlue and United just teamed up for a loyalty program mashup called Blue Sky. Starting this fall (if regulators don’t kill the vibe), passengers will be able to use their miles and perks across both airlines. That means things like priority boarding, preferred seats, and same-day changes will now follow you from JetBlue to United and back. Kind of like frequent flyer benefits without the monogamy. Each airline will still run and price their own flights, but you’ll be able to book both from either site. United also gets to sneak back into JFK with up to seven daily flights by 2027, after ghosting the airport in 2022. JetBlue customers get access to a bunch of international routes, while United customers finally get deeper reach into the Northeast — aka JetBlue turf. Corporate statements were made, big words were used ("innovation," "customer experience"), and now the skies are bluer, allegedly.

Elon wants to build a giant rocket garage in Texas. Elon Musk just unveiled plans to build a gigabay in Texas — a monstrous structure designed to house up to 1,000 Starship rockets per year. It’ll be, in his words, “the biggest structure in the world.” Because subtlety has never been part of the brand. This oversized space locker is the latest step in Musk’s “let’s not die on Earth” campaign. The goal: launch rockets daily, set up shop on Mars, and make humanity a two-planet species before we self-destruct. The first gigabay will rise at SpaceX’s Starbase in Texas, with another one slated for Florida. Eventually, SpaceX wants 1,000 to 2,000 rockets heading to Mars every two years, hauling cargo for a future colony where people wear space diapers and eat dust-seasoned lentils. Super Heavy boosters, the reusable first stage of Starship, are supposed to fly every hour or so. Musk says that’s the plan. 

Google’s Robotaxis Just Gave 10M Rides

Waymo, Google’s robotaxi arm, just hit 10 million paid rides — and not a single human behind the wheel. That's right: 10 million people willingly got into cars with no driver and no one to blame if things got weird. Just last August, Waymo was doing 10K rides a week. Now it’s pushing 250K weekly, with March alone jumping 27%. Turns out, people in San Francisco, LA, and Phoenix are totally fine letting a glorified Roomba take the wheel. Waymo’s not slowing down either. Austin’s up and running. Atlanta, Miami, D.C., and a bunch of other cities are next. 

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ChatGPT just out-empathized humans. In a new study, ChatGPT-4 went head-to-head with actual therapists in couple’s therapy scenarios — and walked away with the gold star. Researchers gave therapy prompts to both human professionals and ChatGPT, then asked experts to rate the responses for things like empathy, professionalism, and cultural sensitivity. Turns out, ChatGPT wasn’t just “pretty good for a robot.” It beat the humans in key areas. Especially empathy — which is, y’know, kind of the whole point of therapy. The humans had advanced degrees. ChatGPT had one prompt and no vacation days. Guess who won? So, next time you’re fighting with your partner, maybe skip the $200/hour therapist and open a browser tab instead.

Tesla might unleash driverless taxis in Austin by June 12. Tesla is reportedly aiming to launch its robotaxi service in Austin on June 12, because Elon Musk never met a deadline he didn’t want to gamble on. Self-driving Model Y cars have started testing in the city, according to a triumphant post from Musk on X. The idea: a paid ride-hailing service with no drivers and plenty of “Full Self-Driving” optimism. Bloomberg says the rollout is coming fast, though like all things Musk, the timeline exists in a state of quantum uncertainty. Meanwhile, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is very much awake. The agency sent Tesla a formal “please explain yourself” letter earlier this month, clearly not thrilled about robot cars playing GTA in real life. But the test cars are out, the PR machine is running, and the future of awkward small talk with human drivers may be one step closer to extinction.

Apple might jump from iOS 18 to iOS 26. Apple is reportedly done playing by normal counting rules. According to Bloomberg, the company plans to jump from iOS 18 to iOS 26 — same for iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. Because clearly, branding now outranks logic. The move would align software names with the calendar year, just like Samsung did when it jumped from the Galaxy S10 to S20 back in 2020. Everyone called it weird then, so now it’s a trend. WWDC kicks off June 9, where Apple is expected to confirm the naming stunt and casually pretend iOS 19–25 never existed.

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Taylor Swift Buys Her Past Back for $360 Million

Taylor Swift just pulled off the most expensive nostalgia trip in music history. After years of legal drama, cryptic lyrics, and pointed re-recordings, she bought back her master recordings from Shamrock Capital for a reported $360 million — roughly what the firm paid for them in 2020 after Scooter Braun’s shady handoff. Now, after two decades of public feuding, tears, and vault tracks, Taylor finally owns her first six albums, all the music videos, tour films, album art, and emotional baggage attached. It's the pop equivalent of closing on your childhood home, but with fewer beige carpets and more Grammys.

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Box office goes feral for ‘Lilo & Stitch’ remake. Disney’s live-action “Lilo & Stitch” just hit $610 million globally and is now the second-biggest Hollywood release of the year. Turns out, people will pay good money to watch a blue alien in 4K cry about family. After two weekends, it’s pulled in over $330 million internationally and $280 million in the U.S., with huge numbers from Mexico, the U.K., France, and Brazil. Stitch is not just thriving — he’s dominating. And yes, it’s somehow gunning to overtake “The Minecraft Movie,” which has made $947 million, because 2025 is clearly unhinged. Meanwhile, “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” and vampire flick “Sinners” both passed the $350 million mark.

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