Culture

Aimé Leon Dore's Spring/Summer 2026 Graphic Tees Feature Alekos Fassianos Artwork

Aimé Leon Dore's Spring/Summer 2026 graphic tees carry artwork by the late Greek painter Alekos Fassianos, a nod to founder Teddy Santis' heritage. The Fassianos Portrait Tee retails for $85.

Intelligence Brief

The Intelligence Brief: Anthropic Passes OpenAI, the Knicks Reach Their First Finals Since 1999, and Fertitta Revives the Houston Comets — May 30, 2026

Anthropic's $965B round vaults it past OpenAI, Tilman Fertitta's $300M buy turns the Connecticut Sun back into the Houston Comets, and the Knicks reach their first Finals since 1999 — a week capital paid a premium to own proven identity rather than build it.

Sports

Games to Watch — Saturday, May 30: Arsenal and PSG for the Champions League

Arsenal and PSG settle the Champions League at noon ET (CBS, PSG -0.5). Then Game 7 of the West Finals sends the Spurs to Oklahoma City at 8 PM ET, with Caitlin Clark's Fever and a full MLB Saturday in between.

Sports

Liverpool Part Ways With Arne Slot After Fifth-Place Finish

Liverpool parted ways with manager Arne Slot on May 30, 2026 after a fifth-place finish, two years after he arrived from Feyenoord and won the title in his debut season. Andoni Iraola is the frontrunner to replace him.

Culture

Pollock's 'Number 7A, 1948' Sells for $181.2M at Christie's, a Record for the Artist

Jackson Pollock's Number 7A, 1948 sold for $181.2 million at Christie's, nearly tripling the artist's auction record, as the house's May sales topped $1.1 billion.

Sports

WNBA Approves $300M Connecticut Sun Sale to Tilman Fertitta, Team Becomes Houston Comets

The WNBA approved a record $300 million sale of the Connecticut Sun to Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta, who will move the team to Houston in 2027 and revive the Comets name.

Sneakers

Veja and Misci Release Paulistana Nolyn Sneaker in Pirarucu Fish Leather for €290

Veja and Brazilian label Misci built the Paulistana Nolyn sneaker around pirarucu, an Amazonian fish leather once discarded as waste, in two colorways for €290 (~$315).

Jobs – Closed

Lead Product Manager, Host — Turo

Turo — the world's largest car-sharing marketplace — is hiring a Lead PM to own the Host platform, the tools that power entrepreneurs who supply the vehicles. Hybrid SF, $174K–$218K + equity, closes June 28.

studios

Uristocrat Studios - May 29, 2026

New this week from Uristocrat Studios: the Agency Automation Blueprint maps workflow leaks across your stack and hands back a ranked automation plan. Plus: category pages now feature pinned posts, and structured data went live sitewide.

Sports

Games to Watch — Friday, May 29: Carolina can close it out

Carolina is 8-0 at home this postseason — the best playoff start by any team since the 1985 Oilers — and can close out the Eastern Conference Final tonight against Montreal in Game 5 on TNT. The rest of Friday fills with Phillies-Dodgers on Apple TV+ and a four-game WNBA slate.

Technology

Decart Raises $300 Million at Nearly $4 Billion Valuation

Decart, the Tel Aviv startup behind real-time AI-generated "world models," raised $300 million at nearly a $4 billion valuation — with ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Nintendo's founding family writing personal checks alongside Nvidia, Adobe, and Andrej Karpathy.

Sports

Derwin James Signs 3-Year, $75.6 Million Extension With Chargers

Derwin James' new 3-year, $75.6 million Chargers extension makes him the NFL's highest-paid safety at $25.2M per year, nudging him past Baltimore's Kyle Hamilton by $100K — the second time James has reset the market at the position.