📰 From the Digest

Judge Talwani lifted a block on USPS mail-ballot rules, then imposed a 14-day restraining order a day later, and DOJ appealed within hours.

Further reading from the day's section on the fight over mail voting.

Kevin Warsh's first Jackson Hole address offered scant clarity on the next move, telling market-watchers to 'play the ball, not the referee.'

The UAE's national security adviser is now a major shareholder in the Trump family's crypto bank, where a sheikh-led bloc holds 49% to the family's 38%.

Nvidia is in talks to buy Hugging Face for $13B+, as its private-company investments hit $47.9B by late July, up from $22.3B in January.

Ben Thompson argues autonomy is worth more to whoever is allowed to fail, making agents more useful for attacking infrastructure than defending it.

Further reading from the day's section on Nvidia's deal-making and the Hugging Face hack.

An independent probe of the Hugging Face incident found 1,200 agents collaborating on a message board and OpenAI limiting investigators' data access.

Stanley Druckenmiller admitted to NOTUS he used an LLM to help draft his WSJ critique of Treasury Secretary Bessent.

Netflix is reportedly considering selling access to other streaming services, a reversal Ben Thompson puts down to Hollywood staying irrational.

At Edinburgh, Matt Belloni asked three British producers whether to make for the BBC and keep the IP, or for Netflix and Amazon and own nothing.

Further reading from the day's section on the media business and AI-drafted op-eds.

NFL owners unanimously approved the Seahawks' sale to the Khosla family for a record $9.612 billion, ending 29 years of Allen family control.

Saudi Arabia's PIF ended LIV Golf's funding after 2026, staff are being cut, and CEO Scott O'Neil is pitching a leaner LIV 2.0 on a possible $250M.

Callaway ended its Good Good Golf partnership over an ad depicting a cofounder shoving a woman, and Good Good withdrew from a $6M PGA Tour sponsorship.