Coming to your Lulu app (Scott Heins/Getty Images)

PELULU

After trying to copy each other, Lululemon and Peloton spin up a fitness partnership

An engine the size of a basketball

Steel giant Nucor and Helion Energy join forces to bring fusion power to the grid

PIKAPIKA

The Crypto Catch-Up…

Dow Jones

S&P 500

Nasdaq

Bitcoin

Oliver Anthony is the first artist to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard chart without any previous history on any chart

🍋 Peloton’s Lululemonade

A House divided (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Crisis

The Senate scrambles to avoid a gov’t shutdown, which could leave millions without pay

This asset class’s prices outpaced the S&P 500 by 136% (Now you can access it)

r/monetization

Reddit starts paying creators for posts as social-media platforms incentivize content

Florida has surpassed New York as the US’s second-largest housing market

🛑 Gov’t shutdown jitters

Lina Khan vs. Amazon (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

PrimeTime

The FTC sued Amazon in a sweeping antitrust case that targets its core biz

Invest in the next AI innovation to make smart homes even smarter

SPARK

The mega-battery biz booms as extreme weather pushes the power grid to its limits

A record 73% of Americans are expected to take part in Halloween activities this year

⚖️ Amazon’s FTC suit

The contract took a few drafts (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Action

Writers and Hollywood studios reach an agreement after nearly 5 months of strikes

Upway: As easy as riding an (electric) bike

CHA$E

Amazon’s investing billions in OpenAI rival Anthropic as tech biggies race to take on ChatGPT

Demand for instant noodles hit a record 121B servings last year

🎬 Hollywood writes a deal

PreK costs are rivaling college tuition (Maskot/Getty Images)

Careless

Pandemic-era childcare funds are expiring as stimulus measures sputter out

The Biggest Disruption To $martphones in 15 Years 🤳🏼

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362K workers have gone on strike this year

🛝 The childcare cliff

Putting that environmental studies degree to work (Maskot/Getty Images)

Green

The White House’s climate jobs training program aims to put 20K people to work in its first year

Trade secrets: what the pros invest in

SnacksWrap

Earnings Wrap: FedEx, General Mills, and KB Home

FRIED

Starbucks has 383B latte varieties

🌳 Biden’s green-collar jobs

Liftoff (Rocket Lab)

Satellite

SpaceX rival Rocket Lab stumbles as the reusable-rocket industry takes off

Pooch

Walmart opens its first pet-services center to grow its slice of the $320B furry industry

Nearly half of Americans age 18 to 29 live with family

🚀 Rocket Lab’s blast was off

Bread and circuses (Richard A. Brooks/Getty Images)

Thrill

Disney’s pouring $60B into its parks-and-cruises biz as cable and streaming struggle

Extra cash back with every tap

FitCheck

H&M is now charging for returns as more retailers discourage customers’ send-it-back habits

DEFI(NE)

Heard on the Block: “total value locked”

The US national debt passed $33T for the first time

🎢 Disney’s $60B park play

Drilling for liquid gold (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Slick

California sues oil titans, saying they deceived the public on climate change

A little engine more powerful than its predecessors

Struck

With the UAW on strike, auto workers and carmakers buckle up for a long and bumpy ride

TikTok now has a Billboard Top 50 chart of viral songs

☀️ California vs. Big Oil

Feels like the ’90s again (Santi Visalli/Getty Images)

BARBARBAR

Hackers of MGM and Caesars up the ante as cybercrime crashes the corporate party

This painting sold for $8 million… and everyday investors profited

US restaurant tipping fell to 19.4% last quarter, the lowest since the start of the pandemic

🎰 MGM and Caesars' hackpot