NEW YORK (AP) Stocks drifted to a mixed finish on Wall Street Friday as oil prices slipped for the first time in a week.
Every major index lost ground overall for the week amid increasing pressure f… [+4536 chars]

Stocks drifted on Wall Street and oil prices fell for the first time in a week, even as heavy fighting in the Middle East again threatened to slow the global flow of oil. The S&P 500 was mostly unchanged Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.5%, an…

Associated Press

Stocks waver on Wall Street while crude oil prices fall for the first time in a week - AP News

Intel (INTC) stock fell almost 8% on Friday after posting blowout Q2 earnings after the bell on Thursday, blowing past Wall Street's expectations on both the top and bottom lines and topping third qu… [+3494 chars]

Intel stock fell almost 8% on Friday after posting blowout Q2 earnings after the bell on Thursday.

Yahoo Entertainment

Intel stock falls nearly 8% despite big Q2 earnings beat - Yahoo Finance

Social Security's looming insolvency in under a decade could be delayed by a change to how the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is calculated, with a new analysis finding that it could cut the… [+4481 chars]

A flat-rate COLA proposal could close 50% of Social Security's 75-year fiscal shortfall, but the cost of waiting since 1987 has been enormous.

Fox Business

One type of Social Security adjustment could cut the 75-year shortfall in half - Fox Business

A South Korean court ordered billionaire SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to pay his former wife more than $640 million in a divorce settlement that could force him to sell assets, borrow money or pled… [+2362 chars]

A South Korean court ordered SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to pay his former wife more than $640 million in the country’s largest divorce asset award.

Tech billionaire ordered to pay $645M to ex-wife in South Korea's ‘divorce of the century’ - Fox Business

Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is many different things to many different people but one thing that it definitely isn’t is a get-rich-quick sche… [+2001 chars]

Elon Musk's most loyal acolytes are licking their wounds as SpaceX stock continues to hit new all-time lows.

Futurism

SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost - Futurism

There's no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter.

Ars Technica

RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses - Ars Technica

WASHINGTON (AP) The United States will open a formal investigation into the European Unions trade practices, President Donald Trump said on Friday, claiming the bloc has unfairly levied billions of d… [+4713 chars]

President Donald Trump says the United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices. He claims the bloc has unfairly levied billions of dollars of fines against Google, Apple and other U.S. tech giants. Trump made the anno…

Trump says the US will investigate EU trade practices, claiming the bloc unfairly fined tech giants - AP News

A trio of U.S. airports is getting set to outsource security screening to private contractors in the coming months.
Three airports in Tampa, Des Moines, and Charleston, South Carolina will be the fi… [+6158 chars]

Airports are opting in to the TSA's new private screening program. Here's what that will mean for air travel.

The Points Guy

3 airports to join new 'TSA Gold+' program: What does that mean for travelers? - The Points Guy

Approximately 1.5 million dozen white and brown cage-free eggs have been recalled due to potential salmonella contamination.
The eggs from Midwest Poultry Services were available to consumers in Bro… [+220 chars]

The recall affects retail stores and food service providers in the Southern United States.

The Washington Post

1.5M cartons of eggs recalled in six states for possible salmonella contamination - The Washington Post

Shares in the Magnificent 7 tech stocks have slumped this week amid investors' concerns about massive spending by hyperscalers on artificial intelligence infrastructure amid uncertainty about the glo… [+4007 chars]

Magnificent Seven stocks lost $787 billion in a single day as Alphabet and Tesla earnings revealed massive AI infrastructure capex that spooked investors.

Magnificent 7 stocks shed hundreds of billions amid AI spending fears - Fox Business

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta.
The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure at a trillion-do… [+4589 chars]

Moody's said AI spending is forcing even the world's most cash-rich corporations to lean heavily on debt, stock sales and off-balance-sheet moves.

CNBC

Moody's says 'unprecedented' AI spending threatens credit quality of Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and others - CNBC

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman said at an event that AI models are becoming so advanced and multi-faceted that engineers are struggling to monitor and control them.
Brockman, while sp… [+4635 chars]

Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, said at a recent conference in New York that artificial intelligence models are becoming so advanced that engineers don't always know all the capabilities they have.

OpenAI co-founder warns AI models are becoming harder to control after its model hacked another firm - Fox Business

On Friday, Anthropic launched its Opus 5 model, the newest version of its long-standing heavyweight model. While smaller than Fable 5, the model will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, … [+2034 chars]

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

TechCrunch

Anthropic launches Opus 5 - TechCrunch

Analysts Disclosure: I/we have no stock, option or similar derivative position in any of the companies mentioned, and no plans to initiate any such positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this ar… [+771 chars]

Micron Technology, Inc. stays Hold as AI memory demand surges. Explore Kimi K3’s impact, MU valuation upside, and key risks like capex cuts and pricing. Click for this MU update.

Seeking Alpha

Micron Stock’s AI Scare Misses The Bigger Story (NASDAQ:MU) - Seeking Alpha

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that the cyclospora outbreak is under control. But many consumers have reached a different conclusion.
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The cyclospora outbreak has people avoiding salads and burrito bowls. Now, for many Americans the question is whether any lettuce can be trusted.

NBC News

How the cyclospora lettuce outbreak sparked a massive consumer trust crisis - NBC News

Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad premature restrictions on open-weight AI models.… [+4942 chars]

AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions - TechCrunch

2026-07-24T22:49:03.538ZStarship Flight 13 Fueled for launch
We're now at T-3 minutes and counting. Starship and its Super Heavy booster should be fueled for launch. Fueling began 35 minutes before … [+21190 chars]

Join us Friday, July 24, at 6:15 p.m. EDT (2215 GMT) for live coverage of Starship Flight 13.

Space.com

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: It's launch day (again) for SpaceX's next Starship - Space

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The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
Trumps Golden Age of American science starts with dismantling it, while funneling billions into A… [+11904 chars]

﻿Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ of American science starts with dismantling it, while funneling billions into AI.