Key Points
The latest roundup covers Nike's Air Zoom Flight '98 "The Glove" return, Draymond Green's re-signing with the Warriors, Spider-Man: Brand New Day's opening, and Apple briefly topping a $5 trillion market cap.
- Air Jordan 13 "Flint" OG returns August 1 for $215, its fifth release since 1998.
- Patrick Mahomes is cleared for Chiefs camp as NFL training camps open leaguewide.
- JAY-Z's MarcyPen Capital Partners leads talks to buy LVMH's roughly $1 billion Fenty Beauty stake.
- Nvidia and SK Group announce a $500B AI partnership anchored by a 2-gigawatt Korea data center.
Sneakers
The Air Jordan 13 "Flint" OG returns August 1 for $215 (style code IW3808-400) — Jordan Brand's fifth release of a colorway that first shipped for $150 in February 1998, during Michael Jordan's final season with the Bulls, and the only original AJ13 colorway that skipped Chicago's red and black entirely. The 2026 retro keeps the 1998 spec unchanged: white tumbled leather across the toe box, soft grey suede on the midsole and heel, navy mesh woven with reflective 3M threading, and the green lenticular "panther eye" hologram on the lateral collar. Full-family sizing runs $215 for adults down to $90 for toddlers, shipping via Nike SNKRS, Nike.com and select Jordan Brand retailers.
Also today: Nike and 3D-printing partner Zellerfeld opened a raffle via EQL for the Air Max 1000.2 "Glacier Blue", the second version of the brand's laceless, 3D-printed silhouette, ahead of its July 30 retail release for $180 (style JF3484-006, Black/Glacier Blue-White). It's a restrained colorway — black covers nearly the entire upper, with Glacier Blue reserved for the exposed Air unit at the heel.
Sports
NFL training camps open across the league this week, with most of the 32 teams reporting by July 28. Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes is fully cleared to practice in every camp period, seven months after surgery for a torn ACL and LCL suffered in a Week 15 loss to the Chargers, and is targeting Kansas City's September 14 opener against Denver. Not everyone is on the field: the 49ers open camp without head coach Kyle Shanahan, still recovering from a concussion sustained in a car accident earlier this month. Arizona locked up quarterback Jacoby Brissett on a one-year, $15.5 million deal, ending a lingering contract dispute, while Patriots owner Robert Kraft says New England has offered cornerback Christian Gonzalez what would be the richest contract in franchise history.
On the trade front, the Clippers' agreement to send Kawhi Leonard back to Toronto remains on hold, pending the NBA's investigation into allegations he received impermissible benefits from the team.
Culture
JAY-Z's MarcyPen Capital Partners remains the leading contender in talks to acquire LVMH's 50 percent stake in Fenty Beauty, the cosmetics brand Rihanna launched with the French luxury conglomerate in 2017. LVMH's stake is valued at roughly $1 billion — the brand overall is estimated between $1 billion and $2 billion, well below its $2.8 billion valuation in 2021. A completed deal would make Carter a business partner in Fenty Beauty, extending a firm that already backed Rihanna's Savage X Fenty lingerie line.
At the box office, Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" sailed to $87 million in its second weekend — a rare hold for a Nolan film, down just 31 percent from its $124.5 million opening — pushing its two-weekend global total past $639 million, including $140 million in IMAX.
Technology
Nvidia and South Korea's SK Group announced a partnership worth more than $500 billion to build AI infrastructure across the country, anchored by a 2-gigawatt data center that SK Telecom will build on Nvidia's DSX platform, coming online in 2027. SK Hynix separately signed a long-term deal to supply Nvidia with next-generation HBM4 memory.
Nvidia is also in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing for a separate OpenAI data center project — a 10-gigawatt facility SoftBank's energy subsidiary is developing in southern Ohio, expected to cost more than $500 billion including the chips inside it, according to Bloomberg. Separately, China's Moonshot AI released the open weights for Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model — among the largest open-weight releases by parameter count — free to download at roughly 1.4 terabytes.
Today on Uristocrat
Catching up on the last 24 hours: Marvel cast David Jonsson as the grown Toussaint, T'Challa's son, in "Black Panther 3," with Ryan Coogler returning to direct a film now set for December 15, 2028.
Sneakers: The Converse SHAI 001 Lace Up "Cheetah" drops September 3 for $120, the last SHAI 001 colorway before Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's move to Nike. FC Barcelona's Kobe Bryant-inspired away kit launches globally July 31 for $140, paired with a matching Nike Dunk Low Protro dropping September 4.
Sports: Sunday's Games to Watch had the Yankees looking to sweep the Phillies on Sunday Night Baseball as the Dodgers visited the last-place Mets.
Culture: Marvel cast David Jonsson as T'Challa's son in "Black Panther 3," with Ryan Coogler returning to direct.
For the latest, today's roundup covers the Air Jordan 6 "Oreo" return, the Kawhi Leonard investigation ending its fact-finding phase, CVC Capital Partners' DistroKid acquisition, and Nvidia's $250 billion OpenAI Ohio talks.
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