Key Points
The latest roundup covers the Air Jordan 13 "Flint" return, NFL camps opening, JAY-Z's pursuit of a Fenty Beauty stake, and Nvidia's $500 billion Korea deal.
The latest Daily Roundup covers Nike's WNBA All-Star sneaker drops, the WNBA All-Star Game in Chicago, New Music Friday, and the White House's Moonshot–Anthropic accusation.
- Travis Scott signs a first-look deal with Paramount to expand Cactus Jack into film, TV, and theater.
- The Commonwealth Games open in Glasgow on July 23 with 74 nations and 215 gold medals on offer.
- Meshy raises $400M at a $1.5B valuation, the largest funding round yet for an AI 3D startup.
- adidas reissues Billie Jean King's 1974 signature shoe at $110.
Sneakers
adidas is reissuing Billie Jean King's 1974 signature shoe at $110 — one of the first performance sneakers ever built for a woman athlete, and an artifact from the year King founded the Women's Tennis Association.
The retro pipeline behind it is stacked. Nike's First Sight Shadow "Metallic Silver" lands tomorrow, July 24, at $145; the Air Jordan 1 High OG "Royal" returns October 10 at $185 after a nine-year absence; and the Air Foamposite Pro "Green Camo" gets its first retro since 2013 on August 14 at $260. For the full week's slate — including Vans' Old Skool "Souvenir" pack at $125 and the Women's Air Jordan 4 "Birds of Paradise" — the running Sneaker News release calendar has the dates and links.
Sports
Glasgow takes center stage tonight. The Commonwealth Games open on July 23 with an opening ceremony at the 14,300-seat OVO Hydro — the first time in the event's history the ceremony has been staged entirely indoors. A record 74 nations and territories are represented, with Gabon and Togo making their debuts, and roughly 3,000 athletes will chase 215 golds across 10 sports through August 2. It's a deliberately lean, cost-conscious edition on a £114M (~$153M) budget after the Games nearly went hostless. KT Tunstall headlines the ceremony; per Olympics.com, medal events run July 24 through August 2.
Baseball fills the night stateside. Chris Sale (10-6, 2.06 ERA) takes the mound for the Braves against the Padres, the Royals send Randy Dobnak to Detroit to face Troy Melton (5-1, 1.80 ERA), and the Twins visit Cleveland in a first-place AL Central test. Houston's Yordan Alvarez, meanwhile, sits atop the majors with his 34th home run. The full slate and box scores are on the ESPN scoreboard.
Culture
Travis Scott is buying a seat at the studio table. Fresh off his acting debut in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, Scott has signed a first-look deal with Paramount that expands Cactus Jack from a music-and-merch operation into film, television, theater, and live experiences. It's the natural next move for a brand whose earlier Paramount tie-ins — the SpongeBob and Scream apparel drops — sold out on release. In the same Variety cover story, Scott teased a new album he says pushes him somewhere he hasn't gone before.
Primary Wave closed its Kobalt acquisition to form a roughly $7 billion music company, consolidating publishing power at a moment when catalogs are the industry's most-prized asset. On the fashion side, Aimé Leon Dore's Spring/Summer '26 jewelry adds 10 pieces from $350 to $6,000, pushing Teddy Santis's label further up the luxury ladder.
Technology
Generative 3D just got its biggest vote of confidence yet. Meshy raised $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation — the largest funding round to date for an AI 3D startup — betting that text- and image-to-3D generation becomes core infrastructure for games, film, and the broader spatial-computing stack. It lands in a week thick with AI capital: the White House committed more than $5 billion to expand its Genesis Mission for AI-driven science, and Alibaba recently led an extension that pushed PixVerse maker AIsphere's Series C to $439 million.
Today on Uristocrat
The Travis Scott–Paramount deal is one of the first times a rapper's creative house has secured a studio first-look pact spanning film, TV, and theater — a structural step beyond the one-off soundtrack and merch collabs artists usually get. Here's everything we published in the last day:
Sneakers — adidas brings back Billie Jean King's 1974 signature shoe at $110, one of the earliest performance sneakers designed for a woman athlete.
Culture — Travis Scott's Cactus Jack signs a first-look deal with Paramount, and Primary Wave closes its Kobalt acquisition to form a $7 billion music company. On the fashion front, Aimé Leon Dore's Spring/Summer '26 jewelry expands with 10 pieces from $350 to $6,000.
Technology — Meshy raised $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, the largest round yet for an AI 3D startup.
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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