Today’s Big Story

The U.S. Strikes Iran

The world now fears the prospect of a wider war

He was on Marine One when President Donald Trump received a call from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. It was time to make a final decision: move forward with U.S. strikes on Iran or abort the mission. Flying over the palatial estates that neighbor his New Jersey golf club on Saturday, Donald Trump made one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency. He’d later tell the American people (and the world as a whole) that the U.S. has carried out a “successful” bombing attack on three nuclear sites in Iran and they have been “obliterated”.

On Sunday, the Pentagon said it will take time to fully assess the effect of the attack though it appears all the sites sustained “extremely severe damage.” Israel says they were in “full co-ordination” with the U.S. in planning the strikes. Iranian officials have confirmed the facilities were struck but denied it had suffered a major blow. But, for sure, the strikes mark a significant escalation in the ongoing war between Iran and Israel.

Flush with the spoils of battle, he already seems to be toying with the idea of regime change. But CNN reports that the reality of whether Trump truly destroyed Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the consequences of his aggression are far more ambiguous than his bullish claims of victory would suggest. “The president effectively tried to bomb Iran to the negotiating table and to an effective surrender of its capacity to enrich uranium. But it’s a long shot whether humiliation by an enemy Tehran regards as the ‘Great Satan’ will convince it to sue for peace.”

Meanwhile, oil prices jumped and stock futures slipped Sunday evening, indicating concern among investors about the possibility of economic fallout from the ongoing unrest in the Middle East. Many are worried about blowback and retaliation from Iran. Senior FBI and Homeland Security officials hosted conference calls with some of the nation's governors and top law enforcement officials on Sunday to discuss how the strikes impact an already dangerous threat environment, sources told ABC News. But official said there is currently no specific intelligence of a direct, credible threat against the U.S. homeland.

Tesla’s Robotaxis Finally Launch (Kind of)

The long-promised autonomous taxi service is testing in Austin with a select group of invitees

Tesla rolled out a limited version of its long-awaited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, culminating what CEO Elon Musk described as “a decade of hard work.” Yes, but Musk promised an “unsupervised” autonomous service, and that’s not exactly what we have here.

As The Verge points out, the service is not open to the general public, nor is it completely “unsupervised.” The vehicles will include Tesla-employed “safety monitors” in the front passenger seat who can react to a dangerous situation by hitting a kill switch. Other autonomous vehicle operators would place safety monitors in the driver or passenger seats, but typically only during the testing phase. Tesla is unique in its use of safety monitors during commercial service. The rides are limited to a geofenced area of the city that has been thoroughly mapped by the company. And in some cases, Tesla is using chase cars and remote drivers as additional backup.

The service is invite only at launch, according to Tesla’s website. And the Wall Street Journal reports that the automaker plans to introduce two specially designed robotaxis to its service: a small, gold-colored sedan called the Cybercab, and a larger multiseater called the Robovan. Those vehicles have neither steering wheels nor pedals and could hit the road as soon as 2026.

Thunder Beat Pacers to Win Its First NBA Title

The team took Game 7, capping a historic season with first title

The Oklahoma City Thunder won the 2025 NBA championship—the first in the franchise's 17 years here—with a 103-91 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Sunday in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, capping a historically dominant year and remarkable turnaround.

According to ESPN, the Thunder went from winning 22 and 24 games, respectively, in 2020-21 and 2021-22 to claiming the top spot in the Western Conference playoffs each of the past two seasons. They followed up a 56-win campaign last season with 68 wins in 2024-25—one of the seven best single-season marks in NBA history. They set the record for the largest point differential of all time in the regular season, smashing a mark that had stood for more than half a century.

The series was the first NBA Finals since 2016 to reach Game 7, and both teams had staged comebacks in earlier games, setting the stage for a dramatic and competitive winner-take-all finale. The Pacers led by five with Haliburton on the floor, and the first half featured 11 lead changes with nine ties, but Indiana ran out of energy competing without their All-Star as the evening moved along. Reserve Pacer point guard TJ McConnell, whom the Thunder already prepared to hound after his superb Game 5 and 6 finals performances, contributed 16 points and six assists but also seven turnovers, working a season-high 28 minutes.

This New Device Records Your Dreams for Playback

It’s AI-based, of course

Now here is some wild futuristic tech that gets you thinking about how different life might be in 20 years from now. If you’re the type that likes analyzing your dreams, a Dutch design studio and think tank called Modem says they’ve developed a machine that will let you watch your dreams after you wake up.

It works like this: When you wake up, you describe your dream to the device, and a “dream weaving” AI model generates video using a combination of OpenAI and LumaLabs technologies to create a brief, low-res video dreamscape in your choice of aesthetic. Much better than an analog dream journal, right?

According to Core77, the team’s Dream Recorder isn't a secretive prototype they're guarding or a commercial product they're flogging. It was created in the name of research, and the design is available to all. It’s clearly early days, but the technology definitely gets you thinking, right?

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