Good evening.

It’s Monday, July 21 — and yes, this is your inbox’s version of a bedtime story. 

On this day in 1983, the world recorded its lowest-ever temperature: −128.6 °F at Vostok Station, Antarctica. Meanwhile, your thighs just fused to a leather car seat and your A/C is weeping in defeat. Mother Nature has jokes. July is like a bad roommate: loud, clingy, always turning up the heat, and refuses to leave. 

Anyway, thanks for winding down your Monday with us. Let’s get into it.

Today’s stories:

• Tech bros microdose toward startup enlightenment

• Wall Street suddenly loves stablecoins now

• Astronomers watch new solar system form

• Blood test detects cancer years early

• Elon Musk announces ‘Baby Grok’ AI

• Uber bets $300M on Lucid robotaxis

• Nolan’s Odyssey sells out year early

• Trump signs stablecoin bill into law

• $250 ‘Visa Integrity Fee’ incoming

• ‘Krypto’ sparks adoption surge

  and more…

Stocks closed mixed Monday, but the Nasdaq and S&P 500 still managed to notch fresh highs as Wall Street kicked off a jam-packed week of Big Tech earnings and tariff-watching.

The Nasdaq rose 0.4% for its sixth straight record close, riding last week’s growth-stock rally. The S&P 500 edged up just over 0.1%, closing above 6,300 for the first time ever. The Dow? It flipped red at the buzzer, ending just below flat.

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Uber Throws $300M at Lucid

Uber just shook hands with Lucid and Nuro to roll out 20,000 robotaxis over six years. Because what the world desperately needed was more metal boxes stuck in traffic without a single person to blame. Uber’s dropping $300 million into Lucid’s wallet like it’s tipping a driver who doesn’t exist. Meanwhile, Nuro’s in charge of the self-driving tech — because when you want to replace humans, you hire a startup that sounds like a vitamin brand. Lucid stock shot up 36%, riding high on Uber’s cash splash. Uber’s stock didn’t budge. Not a single eyebrow raised.  

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Trump signs stablecoin bill. Donald Trump just signed the GENIUS Act (yes, that’s really the name), the first federal law to regulate stablecoins — those dollar-backed crypto tokens Wall Street suddenly loves. Trump called it a “giant step” for America and casually compared it to the invention of the internet. Humble as always. The bill forces stablecoin issuers to actually back their coins with real money — cash or short-term Treasury debt — which is the financial equivalent of saying “you can’t just make stuff up anymore.”

Wall Street wants in on the crypto it used to hate. Remember when banks laughed at crypto like it was a bad haircut? Cute. Now they’re all scrambling to slap their logos on stablecoins — those dollar-backed digital tokens that basically do what banks do, minus the banks. Thanks to Congress passing something called the GENIUS Act (sure), big banks smell money. Now banks like JPMorgan, Citi, and Goldman can legally jump into the stablecoin pool — and boy, are they dog-paddling in fast. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon is pretending to be chill about it but has already launched a “deposit token” called JPMD, which is just a stablecoin with a business-casual name. He says they’ll “do both.” Translation: we’re not getting left behind. Citi’s Jane Fraser is in full main-character mode, already bragging about “Citi Token Services” in four countries like it’s the Beyoncé of banking. She’s all-in on real-time payments, cross-border magic, and tokenized deposits. Goldman’s David Solomon sent a small army of suits to figure it all out and gave the usual corporate shrug: “We’re watching it. We’re thinking. We’ll get back to you.” (They won’t.) Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan is standing by the punch bowl, not drinking, waiting for a lawyer to tell him it’s OK. And Morgan Stanley is doing the finance version of lurking — observing, evaluating, and not making eye contact.

The psychedelic adventures of Silicon Valley’s richest minds. LSD, ayahuasca, mushrooms, MDMA — the world’s most powerful tech bros are microdosing their way to enlightenment, and apparently, better pitch decks. Psychedelics have gone from hippie punchline to billionaire brain fuel, with some of the biggest names in tech treating spiritual hallucinations like productivity hacks.

Steve Jobs called his LSD trips “one of the most important things” in his life. Right up there with inventing the iPhone and destroying buttons forever. Bill Gates, not to be out-weirded, says he tried acid in college and felt like his brain could delete memories like a hard drive. He called it “cosmic.” He also got dental work the next morning, which is its own kind of trip.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman took a weekend in Mexico, came back calm, and said it “changed his life.” Forget therapy, try peyote. He’s now backing a startup that wants to use psychedelics to treat addiction — because tech bros can’t just experience something, they have to disrupt it.

Sergey Brin allegedly dabbled in magic mushrooms and is quietly backing psychedelic science too. Meanwhile, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is the lone holdout, claiming he’s “done too much neuroscience” to risk his brain on a hallucinated journey through his childhood fears.

What started as fringe is now becoming VC-funded. With startup accelerators like Y Combinator and billionaires like Peter Thiel throwing money at psychedelic ventures, tripping is no longer counterculture — it’s part of the portfolio.

Astronomers Catch a Planetary System Being Born

For the first time ever, scientists watched a brand-new solar system start forming — like, literally the first specks of space dust gluing together into baby planets. It’s happening around a baby star named HOPS-315, about 1,300 light-years away, and it looks like our own Sun’s awkward infant years. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, astronomers spotted hot minerals just starting to solidify. Basically, space Legos starting to snap together for the first time. 

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Cancer DNA found in blood years before diagnosis.Turns out your blood has been quietly spilling secrets for years. Scientists can now detect cancer DNA in blood more than three years before anyone officially says, “You have cancer.” Researchers at Johns Hopkins pulled dusty old blood samples from the '80s and '90s — because why not dig into a 40-year-old freezer — and somehow still found cancer’s genetic fingerprints. In blood. From decades ago. Using barely a teaspoon of plasma. From tubes not even designed to store DNA. Of 26 people who were diagnosed with cancer shortly after their blood draw, eight already had the genetic red flags floating around. Even cooler (or creepier?): they found similar DNA patterns in samples taken three years before diagnosis. It’s still early days, but the potential is wild. 

Elon Musk wants kids to use his AI. Just weeks after Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok praised Hitler, denied the Holocaust, and pushed white nationalist garbage, Musk announced he's making a kid-friendly version. It’s called Baby Grok. He posted the announcement on X — the same platform Grok is trained on, and the same one overflowing with the exact content Grok regurgitated. No word yet on safety features, filters, or literally any guardrails. Just a name, a tweet, and 17 million views. Because nothing says “child-friendly” like a chatbot that recently suggested imprisoning Jews. Grok’s behavior isn’t a glitch — it’s a mirror of the content it’s trained on. Mostly from X. Which Musk also owns. The snake is eating its tail, and somehow still asking for App Store ratings.

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Welcome to America — That’ll Be $250 Extra

Starting October 1, most people needing a visa to enter the U.S. will be hit with a shiny new $250 charge, lovingly named the “Visa Integrity Fee.” This new fee stacks on top of existing visa fees. Add in the recently increased I-94 form fee (from $6 to $24), and international visitors are now paying luxury prices to sit in customs for three hours and maybe get yelled at by a TSA agent. The government says the $250 fee might be reimbursed — eventually — but only if the traveler follows every visa condition like it’s a game of immigration Jenga. No overstaying. No unauthorized work. No screwups. Then, after the visa expires, maybe the government sends you a refund. Or maybe it doesn’t.

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Nolan’s Odyssey sells out 365 days in advance. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey doesn’t come out for another year, but tickets to the Imax 70mm screenings — his signature film-nerd flex — already sold out in under an hour. That’s 95% of seats gone before most people had their coffee. The film, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus (yes, really), is being shot entirely on Imax film cameras, because of course Nolan wouldn’t just adapt Homer — he has to make it a cinematic physics thesis. Imax announced the early release at midnight, and by the time the internet wiped the sleep from its eyes, it was over. Scalpers are already flipping tickets for $300–$400. Retail price is $25.  This is reportedly the first time in history movie tickets went on sale a full year ahead of release. 

Superdog Krypto drives surge in pet adoption rates. Move over, Clark Kent — Krypto the Superdog just became the real hero of Superman. One week after the movie hit theaters, adoption searches for dogs exploded. Dog training app Woofz says searches like “adopt a dog near me” shot up 513%, because apparently everyone now wants a loyal, flying, crime-fighting fluffball. “Rescue adoption near me” jumped 163%, and “adopted a puppy” climbed 31%. Basically, Krypto is out here doing what influencers wish they could. James Gunn, who wrote and directed the film, took to X to say this dog adoption spike might be the film’s “greatest” blessing. Not the box office, not the reviews. The dogs. 

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