Issue 2026-07-19
Stories
- US Bridge Bombings and Kuwaiti Desalination Strike Mark 7th Night of Open Gulf War
- US Retaliates With 8th Straight Night of Strikes After Troops Killed in Jordan
- Venezuelan Quake Toll Hits 5,069 as IMF Unlocks $346 M for Reconstruction
- SpaceX Opens DoD Negotiations for Multi-Billion Dollar AI Compute Contract
- Chevron-Iraq MOUs Kick Off West Qurna 2/Nassiriya Expansion and Mediterranean Bypass Pipeline Study
- Meta Considers First-Ever Cloud Lease: $10 B Compute Deal Sought by Anthropic
- First Atmosphere Confirmed on Habitable-Zone Rocky Exoplanet LHS 1140 b
- China’s Moonshot Releases 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Kimi K3, First Open-Weight Model to Top U.S. Benchmarks
- Indonesia Becomes Founding Signatory of WAICO, Seeks Leadership Role and Chinese AI Investment
At a Glance
- Between 17–18 July 2026 the United States ended a seventh consecutive night of air-raids that demolished at least fiv...
- Iran’s 17 July drone-missile salvo that killed two U.S. soldiers at Jordan’s Al-Azraq base triggered Washington’s sev...
- Caracas raised the official June-24 earthquake death count to 5,069 and, on the same day, drew US$346 million from it...
- On 17 July 2026 the Wall Street Journal revealed that SpaceX is negotiating to lease billions of dollars’ worth of sp...
- On 17 July 2026 Chevron and Baghdad signed non-binding accords to assume West Qurna-2, develop Nassiriya blocks, and...
- For the first time, Meta is negotiating to rent out its excess AI data-center capacity, weighing Anthropic’s June pro...