Key Points
- The Reebok Angel Reese 1 "Poison Angel" drops June 25 at 10 AM ET for $140 (GS $110) on Reebok.com and at Dick's Sporting Goods.
- The USA close out World Cup Group D against Türkiye at SoFi Stadium (10 PM ET, FOX) — the hosts have already clinched a Round of 32 berth and are playing for seeding.
- Toy Story 5 crossed $200M domestic in five days, off a $159.6M opening (Pixar's second-biggest ever) and a $23.7M Tuesday — the year's best.
- Google is losing two more AI leads to Anthropic — Gemini contributors Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — as the lab's talent pull accelerates.
Thursday is a host-nation showcase wrapped around a loaded release day. Angel Reese turns a Halloween costume into a signature colorway, the USMNT plays for seeding under the SoFi lights, Pixar reminds Hollywood what a real franchise looks like, and Anthropic keeps raiding Google's brain trust. Here's the brief.
Sneakers
The day belongs to Reebok's Angel Reese 1 "Poison Angel," dropping at 10 AM ET for $140 (grade school $110) on Reebok.com and at Dick's Sporting Goods. The neon-green-and-red makeup is pulled straight from Reese's Poison Ivy Halloween look — fire-red branding cutting across a venomous green upper. It's a second signature drop inside a month for a player building real shoe equity, and the styling does the thing the best signature colorways do: it makes the athlete's personality the product.
Around it, Nike keeps the women's calendar busy with the Air Rift 2 "Kenya" ($125) and the maximalist Air Max 1000.2 "Pink Spell" ($180). The bigger story is what's stacking up behind today: the Air Jordan 3 "True Blue" OG returns July 18 at $230, its first widespread US retro in a decade, while Jordan Brand's all-black "Black Pack" and the Zoom Hyperflight "Varsity Red" load up the summer. July is where the heat is — June 25 is the appetizer.
Sports
The USA close out Group D against Türkiye at SoFi Stadium tonight (10 PM ET, FOX), and the stakes are about seeding, not survival. Wins over Paraguay (4-1) and Australia (2-0) mean the hosts take on Türkiye with a Round of 32 spot already clinched, so this is a tune-up with home-crowd theater attached — a chance to set a knockout matchup and keep the front line sharp. Türkiye, meanwhile, arrived a pre-tournament dark horse and leaves having taken 62 shots without scoring a single goal, one of the strangest exits of the group stage.
The rest of the slate is stacked: Japan vs. Sweden (7 PM ET, AT&T Stadium), Ecuador vs. Germany (4 PM ET, MetLife), and Netherlands vs. Tunisia (7 PM ET, Arrowhead) all carry knockout implications. Off the pitch, the NBA money is still moving — Austin Reaves just signed a four-year, $185M deal with the Lakers, the richest contract ever for an undrafted player.
Culture
Toy Story 5 is making the rest of the 2026 slate look slow. The Pixar sequel crossed $200M domestic in just five days, off a $159.6M opening — Pixar's second-biggest ever — and the year's biggest single days, including a $23.7M Tuesday. In a soft theatrical market, a known, well-built IP is outrunning everything chasing originality, and the race now is whether it becomes 2026's highest-grossing release.
Technology
The AI talent war has a clear winner this month, and it isn't Google. Two more Gemini contributors — Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are headed to Anthropic, following DeepMind director John Jumper's earlier jump. Adler worked on Google's AI coding effort; Pritzel on model training — exactly the people you don't want walking out mid-race. The throughline: capital and prestige are concentrating fast, and the labs with momentum are pulling talent out of the incumbents.
On the licensing front, OpenAI struck a multi-year display deal with Getty Images to surface Getty's licensed photo and editorial library inside ChatGPT search — a partnership that sent Getty's stock up roughly 200% in premarket trading and signals where the next round of AI-media economics is headed.
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The headline read from the last 24 hours: Austin Reaves' four-year, $185M Lakers extension is the richest contract ever handed to an undrafted player — a milestone moment for a player who went from camp invite to max money, and worth the click for what it says about how the Lakers are building around Luka Dončić.
Sneakers: Jordan Brand's Air Jordan 3 "True Blue" OG returns July 18 at $230, its first widespread US retro in a decade; the Air Jordan "Black Pack" brings four all-black retros in premium materials for Holiday 2026; the Nike Zoom Hyperflight "Varsity Red" revives a 2001 colorway on July 10 for $170; Knicks Finals MVP Jalen Brunson gets an Air Force 1 Protro for Fall 2026; A'ja Wilson revealed the Nike A'Two "Hot Wheels"; and Nike previewed the Air Bakin Low for Spring/Summer 2027.
Sports: Our Games to Watch slate tracked Wednesday's World Cup drama, and Türkiye's record-setting exit — 62 shots, no goals — set the table for tonight's USA matchup.
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