Key Points
- Air Jordan 13 "Wings" (IX1872-001) drops today, 10 a.m. ET, $215 on SNKRS.
- Panthers-Cardinals open NFL preseason tonight, 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock from Canton.
- ScHoolboy Q books a 10-date Blank Face LP anniversary tour, October 1-17; on-sale August 7.
- Anthropic signs a six-year, $10 billion compute deal with Volta for a Norway data center.
The Daily Briefing
Jordan Brand's annual WINGS release arrives this morning at $215. The NFL's 2026 preseason begins tonight in Canton, where Drew Brees, Roger Craig, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly and Adam Vinatieri headline the Hall of Fame class. ScHoolboy Q booked a fall anniversary run behind a 2016 album. And Anthropic committed $10 billion over six years to a Norway data center whose first phase is targeted for December 31, 2026.
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Sneakers
The Air Jordan 13 "Wings" releases today at 10 a.m. ET for $215 on the SNKRS app and at select Jordan Brand retailers. The shoe carries style code IX1872-001 and replaces the 13's quilted side panels with black denim twill covered in distressed X-shaped stitching. The denim is designed to tear away with wear, revealing a laser graphic underneath, so each pair diverges from the next over time. SneakerFiles reports the pair ships in special WINGS packaging with custom graphic insoles tied to Jordan Brand's WINGS education program. Colored accents run through the outsole traction pods. The run is reported at 12,000 pairs.
Tomorrow brings the Kith x Salomon XT-EVO, a silhouette debuting through the collaboration. Sneaker Bar Detroit lists an August 7 release through the Kith app, Kith.com and Kith stores as part of the &Kin Fall 2026 collection, in a grey and purple pair and a black makeup with yellow, red and blue accents.
On the performance side, Paige Bueckers' Nike GT Cut 4 "Shirley Buckets" moves from PE status to a general release at $210.
Sports
Football returns tonight. The Carolina Panthers meet the Arizona Cardinals in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio, with kickoff at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. NBC Sports begins pregame coverage at 7 p.m. ET with Football Night in America on site, and Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth call the game with Melissa Stark reporting and Terry McAulay on rules. The 2026 enshrinement class — Drew Brees, Roger Craig, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly and Adam Vinatieri — is featured across the broadcast. Our full slate is in Games to Watch, which also has the Aces at Fever tip.
Three NFL extensions landed this week. Baltimore signed Zay Flowers to a four-year, $140 million extension with $108 million guaranteed. Chicago locked up right tackle Darnell Wright for four years and $116 million, $93 million of it guaranteed. Atlanta gave Bijan Robinson a three-year extension with $51 million guaranteed.
Culture
ScHoolboy Q is taking Blank Face LP back on the road. The album turned 10 in July, and the "10 Years of Blank Face LP" tour runs 10 dates, opening October 1 at the Tabernacle in Atlanta and closing October 17 at Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas. New York gets Brooklyn Paramount on October 3, with stops in Washington, Anaheim, San Diego, Los Angeles (two nights, the Palladium and the Novo), Phoenix and Oakland in between, per BrooklynVegan. Artist presale opened August 4; public on-sale is August 7, per Consequence. Blank Face LP peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and earned a Best Rap Album Grammy nomination.
In theaters tomorrow: August 7 brings One Night Only, with Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro; Super Troopers 3, Broken Lizard's first outing since 2018; and the horror release Ice Cream Man.
Technology
Anthropic signed a six-year, $10 billion compute deal with Volta, an AI infrastructure startup. TechCrunch reports the capacity comes from a 133-megawatt facility in Norway built with Bitdeer and running Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin architecture.
The landlord side of that deal has its own numbers. Bitdeer announced a 16-year colocation lease and services agreement with Volta Tydal AS, a Volta subsidiary, to deliver 121 IT megawatts at its Tydal campus — roughly $4.7 billion in contracted revenue over the initial base term, rising to a potential $8.0 billion if a one-time eight-year extension is exercised. The site is planned across four data halls in two phases, targeting December 31, 2026 and March 31, 2027, at a PUE of approximately 1.1 on 100% renewable energy. Credit support of about $1.3 billion is expected via letters of credit arranged by affiliates of J.P. Morgan and another global financial institution.
The nuclear side of the same buildout got its own headline this week: Valar Atomics raised a $1 billion Series B led by Sequoia at a $6 billion valuation, betting on modular reactors to power AI data centers.
Today on Uristocrat
The Air Jordan 13 "Wings" ships with a black denim upper designed to wear away, revealing a laser graphic underneath, so each pair changes with use.
Sneakers: Our breakdown of the Air Jordan 13 "Wings" and its wear-away denim upper has the full spec sheet, and Paige Bueckers' Nike GT Cut 4 "Shirley Buckets" covers the Gatorade collaboration's move to general release.
Sports: Games to Watch for Thursday, August 6 runs down Aces at Fever and the Canton opener. We also covered the extension wave: Zay Flowers in Baltimore, Darnell Wright in Chicago, and Bijan Robinson in Atlanta.
Technology: Anthropic's $10 billion Volta deal details the Norway build and the JPMorgan credit backstop, while Valar Atomics' $1 billion Series B covers the nuclear side of the compute race.
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