📰 From the Digest

About seventy very large crude carriers run the Strait of Hormuz dark, bringing flow back to roughly a third of pre-war levels.

The Trump-led Kennedy Center board voted to re-inscribe the president's name on the building, testing a judge's order that only Congress can rename it.

The national average gas price has never been above $4 a gallon after August 12 in any year on record.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is below 300 million barrels, its lowest level since 1983.

Dan Merica credits retiring Gov. Tony Evers, who endorsed David Crowley after he quit, for Crowley's primary win over Francesca Hong.

Peter Hamby argues candidate quality still matters and the electorate is older and less online than the feed implies.

Further reading from the day's section on the Wisconsin primary, a press secretary's exit and the Kennedy Center.

Caitlin Dewey argues MAGA elevates ambitious women only when they exercise power on Trump's behalf; four of 23 cabinet-level posts are held by women.

Further reading from the day's section on the Wisconsin primary, a press secretary's exit and the Kennedy Center.

Town spends roughly $100 per user in the first two weeks building a dossier before users ask it for anything, CEO Jean-Denis Greze says.

Business Insider reports Silicon Valley therapists are treating what one calls complicity grief among tech workers.

Further reading from the day's section on AI assistants, the jobless boom and the model race.

The model market lost its excuse as DeepSeek V4 Pro and Grok 4.6 shipped two hours apart.

Further reading from the day's section on AI assistants, the jobless boom and the model race.

DoubleVerify's value was being the neutral referee, and with IAS taken private the measurement layer is now concentrated in very few hands.