Key Points
- Yeezy footwear hits JD Sports today, its first major US chain placement since 2022; the YS-01 slide is $44.
- NFL preseason Week 1 opens tonight with six games, starting with Detroit at Cincinnati and Green Bay at Pittsburgh at 7:00 PM ET.
- Ayra Starr's third album Starr Girl arrives tomorrow, August 14 — 16 tracks on Mavin Records, with Wizkid, Rema and Zayn Malik.
- Lovable raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, up from the $1.8 billion it was worth in July 2025.
The Daily Briefing
Yeezy footwear returns to a national US retailer this morning. Six NFL preseason games open Week 1 tonight. Ayra Starr releases a 16-track album tomorrow. And Lovable's valuation went up roughly sevenfold in thirteen months.
Sneakers
YEEZY footwear begins selling through JD Sports today, August 13, online and in stores. It is the brand's first footwear placement in a major American chain since adidas ended the partnership in 2022. Uristocrat covered the other end of that split in 2023, when adidas put more than $1 billion of remaining Yeezy inventory back on sale.
The YS-01 slide leads at $44 across seven colorways, with the Chocolate pair carrying style code YS017-900. Modern Notoriety lists the rest: the YS-02 at $56, the AQ-01 water shoe at $66, the women's HL-02 heel at $66, and the BL-01 at $108. The YS-01 keeps the molded one-piece foam, wide footbed and grooved outsole of the adidas version, with the Three Stripes branding removed.
Also today: the Nike Ja 4 "Nightmare" in Obsidian/Black-Voltage Green (IM4135-405) at $130, the launch colorway for Ja Morant's fourth signature shoe, at Nike, Foot Locker, Hibbett and DSG.
Sports
NFL preseason Week 1 opens tonight with six games, per the league schedule: Detroit at Cincinnati and Green Bay at Pittsburgh at 7:00 PM ET, Indianapolis at New England at 7:30, the Los Angeles Chargers at Houston and Arizona at Las Vegas at 8:00, and Tennessee at San Francisco at 9:00. All six stream on NFL Game Pass.
Minnesota named Kyler Murray its starter over J.J. McCarthy yesterday.
Culture
Ayra Starr releases her third studio album Starr Girl tomorrow, August 14, through Mavin Records. The 16-track project features Wizkid on "Gimme Dat," labelmate Rema on "Who's Dat Girl," Zayn Malik on "Heaven Baby," Theodora on "Ms Paper," kwn on "Amazing," and a Danny Ocean remix of "Hot Body." It is her first full-length since 2024's The Year I Turned 21. Uristocrat covered two of the singles on it — "Where Do We Go" in March and "Hot Body" last July.
At the box office, Spider-Man: Brand New Day stood at $654.3 million domestic and The Odyssey at $461.4 million after last weekend, per Box Office Mojo. On streaming, the Michael Jackson biopic Michael began its Starz run August 10, per Variety.
Technology
Stockholm-based Lovable raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, Tech Startups reported. The company lets users build websites and applications by describing them in natural language. Uristocrat covered the round that made it a unicorn — a $200 million Series A at $1.8 billion in July 2025. The valuation has multiplied roughly sevenfold in thirteen months.
Elsewhere in the same report: Google says Gemini has passed 1 billion monthly active users, with 63% interacting by voice and more than 150 million images generated daily. IBM signed a $240 million multiyear deal with Together AI covering an initial deployment of about 2,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips. Foxconn posted a 35% year-over-year profit increase at NT$59.97 billion (~$1.86 billion), with AI servers exceeding 50% of revenue for the first time.
Today on Uristocrat
Minnesota's quarterback decision is the notable one: the Vikings named Kyler Murray their 2026 starter over J.J. McCarthy, a decision that lands the week the preseason opens.
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