A blog post claiming Lucid was weighing Chapter 11 or a take-private deal crushed the stock mid-session. The company called the rumors false—and the operating numbers explain why the market flinched.
Bloomberg reports Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind its June promise as coding gains miss internal targets. Alphabet shares slipped, partners are still testing, and Google says it is engaged with the U.S. government on the model.
The House passed the Sunshine Protection Act 308-117 — permanent daylight saving time, with November 1's fall-back the first casualty if it becomes law. The Senate is where the idea has stalled twice, and the operational clock is tighter than the political one.
The AI cybersecurity clearinghouse ordered in June is now a standing coordination group: AI developers and critical-infrastructure operators — hospitals included — sharing the vulnerabilities AI finds. The six weeks between the order and the table showed exactly why it exists.
Governor Hochul signed the nation's first statewide freeze on new hyperscale data centers — 50 megawatts and up, for as long as a year — citing a grid nearing its limits and residential electric rates up nearly 68% since 2019. A $10 billion pipeline pauses, a 12-gigawatt queue waits, and the bill still on her desk goes further.
Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday ships 570 fixes by BleepingComputer's count, 621 by ZDI's — two exploited zero-days in AD FS and SharePoint included. June's all-time record lasted exactly one month, and Microsoft spent the preceding week explaining why: an AI discovery harness now feeds the pipeline, and volumes go up from here.
The Korean memory maker priced the largest ADR offering in Wall Street history and popped 13% on debut. The valuation behind it was built by the same shortage that has DRAM contract prices doubling and data centers consuming 70% of the world's memory.
Apple says OpenAI's 400-person talent raid crossed into trade-secret theft: components carried into job interviews, a kept laptop, and a copied metal finish. OpenAI denies it — and the 2024 partnership just became a courtroom exhibit.
The June 17 memorandum reopened the Strait of Hormuz and sent oil back to pre-war prices. Three weeks later the strait is declared closed again, CENTCOM has struck more than 300 targets in three nights, and Brent heads into Monday with a weekend of escalation still unpriced.
In three consecutive days, Anthropic took Claude Cowork to web and mobile, SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 with Office automation, and OpenAI merged Codex into ChatGPT and launched ChatGPT Work. The coding-agent war is now an office-suite war.