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AI
Nvidia weighs a $250 billion backstop for OpenAI's giant Ohio data center
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing so OpenAI can lease a 10-gigawatt campus that SoftBank's SB Energy is building on a former uranium-enrichment site south of Columbus. A parallel deal to fund the chips could reach another $350 billion, pushing the project past $500 billion.
Why it matters: It would be the largest data-center project ever announced, a sign that AI's buildout now runs on chipmaker-backed debt, not just cash.
Dive deeper → Tom's Hardware
Tech
Apple pushes its smart glasses to 2027 over privacy worries
Apple has delayed its first smart glasses to a WWDC 2027 reveal, with engineers now treating privacy as priority number one after the backlash to Meta's camera-equipped Ray-Bans, Bloomberg reports. It is weighing versions with reduced cameras, or none at all.
Why it matters: The most privacy-branded tech giant is signaling that always-on face cameras are still a product minefield.
Dive deeper → Engadget
Business
Verizon posts a record quarter and lifts its outlook again
Verizon earned an adjusted $1.30 a share, topping estimates, and added 184,000 postpaid phone subscribers, its best consumer second quarter in five years. It logged record adjusted EBITDA of $13.7 billion and raised full-year guidance for a second straight quarter, though revenue of $34.25 billion came in light.
Why it matters: The carrier says it is winning customers on retention and value rather than costly promotions, a healthier growth mix.
Dive deeper → Verizon
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT soars 466% on its Shanghai debut
Changxin Technology (CXMT) surged about 466% on its first trading day on Shanghai's STAR Market after an $8.6 billion IPO, Asia's biggest this year, briefly becoming the most valuable company listed in mainland China at roughly $487 billion before Tencent reclaimed the top.
Why it matters: It is a milestone for China's drive to build homegrown memory chips, and Apple is already testing CXMT's DRAM for devices sold there.
Dive deeper → CNBC
Science
Astronomers find the first true sugar in interstellar space
Using radio telescopes in Spain, scientists detected erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar also found in raspberries, in a gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way. It is the first molecule that meets chemists' definition of a real sugar to be spotted in space, and it appears to form on icy dust grains.
Why it matters: It strengthens the case that life's raw ingredients can assemble in space and ride comets and asteroids to young planets.
Dive deeper → Phys.org
World
US and Iran hold their fire as diplomacy inches forward
The US has paused nearly two weeks of airstrikes on Iran and Tehran has halted its retaliation, opening space for talks, brokered in part by Oman, over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Officials stress it is a fragile pause, not a formal ceasefire, and could collapse if either side strikes again.
Why it matters: A wider US-Iran war is on hold for now, but the truce rests entirely on unfinished negotiations.
Dive deeper → NPR
India's education minister resigns after a youth uprising over exam leaks
Dharmendra Pradhan stepped down following weeks of nationwide 'Cockroach' protests that blamed him for leaks in India's most competitive entrance exams, a scandal linked to more than a dozen student suicides. The leaderless youth movement, which marched on parliament, called off its agitation after he quit.
Why it matters: It is the sharpest political blow of Modi's third term and a rare win for a student-led protest wave.
Dive deeper → CNN
Culture
Nolan's Odyssey powers Hollywood's biggest box-office comeback since the pandemic
The Odyssey held the top spot for a second weekend with about $87 million, a record-setting hold after its $123 million opening, helping drive the strongest summer box office since before 2020. Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens next weekend and is tracked for a huge debut.
Why it matters: After years of doom talk, moviegoing is showing real signs of life heading into a stacked late-summer slate.
Dive deeper → Deseret News
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