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The Smithsonian became the target of a first-of-its-kind White House order, Nvidia pulled off one of the biggest supply deals in chip history, and Ford started calling back the SUV sitting in half a million driveways.

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The Trump administration ordered the Smithsonian Institution to post warning labels on exhibits the White House deems "inaccurate," in a directive against the world's largest research museum complex. The order applies across all nineteen Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo.

The administration has spent months publicly accusing the Smithsonian of harboring anti-American bias, and Friday's order gives the political appointees on the Board of Regents direct sign-off on which exhibits carry warning language. Academic historians and museum-workers union both said they will challenge implementation, and the American Alliance of Museums warned the move could put federal accreditation at risk.

Nvidia locked down years of high-bandwidth memory supply from South Korea's SK Hynix as part of a $500 billion multi-year agreement, in an aggressive move to secure the essential component that goes into every one of its next-generation GPUs and rack-scale systems. Deal takes SK Hynix capacity off the table for rivals AMD, Broadcom, and Chinese AI accelerators through 2029.

Terms include prepayments, capacity reservations, and joint next-generation memory design work — a structure that mirrors what Nvidia has done for TSMC advanced packaging. Moody's separately warned that AI capital-spending intensity is forcing even the world's most cash-rich companies to lean heavily on debt and off-balance-sheet financing to keep up.

US forces disabled an Iranian-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, in what the US military said was an evasive-run attempt around Washington's blockade on Iranian ports. The move marks the first direct US strike on a ship inside the strait itself.

Saudi Arabia and Houthi forces traded fire across the Red Sea in coordinated strikes overnight, and Yemen's Houthis claimed additional attacks on shipping. Brent crude ticked higher on the pre-market open, and Gulf shipping insurers moved war-risk premiums for Hormuz transits sharply higher.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu approved the country's largest military expansion in recent memory, a response to armed groups terrorizing rural communities. The buildup signals Abuja's rising anxiety about bandits, jihadists, and separatists all operating at once.

Volodymyr Zelensky is racing to defuse a political crisis after dismissing minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a move that triggered street protests and unusually sharp criticism from Ukrainian commentators. Some analysts say it's the wartime leader's first serious domestic political hit since 2022.

Despite months of tariff threats, China's average weighted duty on US-bound exports has barely moved — and now sits lower than the rates hitting Brazil and Canada. Beijing's patient play paid off while Washington's other partners got clobbered.

President Trump returned to the White House Correspondents' Dinner with a rambling, insult-filled speech that swung between one-liners and grievances about the press. April's original event was canceled after a man breached security and fired a shotgun outside the venue.

The Centers for Disease Control now count cyclospora cases tied to the ongoing lettuce outbreak across nine US states, with reported case totals continuing to climb. Cyclospora causes multi-week explosive diarrhea episodes that are difficult to identify without targeted stool testing.

Federal health officials say a salmonella outbreak tied to recalled eggs has sickened 98 people across 17 states, with the recall now expanded to additional lot numbers sold at Kroger banners. Consumers are urged to check egg cartons stored at home against the FDA's live recall list.

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A pair of lawsuits filed under Section 301 and IEEPA authority challenge the White House's latest tariff wave, arguing the forced-labor rationale exceeds statutory authority. Fifth Circuit could reach the case first, and a ruling is expected before year-end.

Uber and Waymo will end their exclusivity arrangement in Atlanta and Austin, meaning Waymo driverless rides show up on rival platforms starting in 2028. The breakup opens the robotaxi market just as Tesla and Zoox scale up.

Ford is recalling more than 565,000 Bronco and Bronco Raptor SUVs after regulators flagged a wiring-harness short in the engine compartment that increases fire risk. Owners can park outside until dealers apply the fix, and Ford is prioritizing replacement scheduling for open recalls first.

An unusual CRISPR-family enzyme kills cancer cells by shredding their DNA rather than making the precise cuts other CRISPR tools rely on, according to early laboratory tests. The team behind the work said the protein can be aimed at cells carrying specific tumor-causing mutations.

SpaceX completed its 13th Starship test flight, the first launch since the company's IPO last month, with the megarocket delivering a soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean roughly an hour after liftoff. Test hits the "reuse-viable" milestone SpaceX had targeted before pushing Starship into human-rated crewed missions.

An interdisciplinary crew is retracing the migration route that carried Polynesian navigators across thousands of miles of open Pacific between 1000 BC and 1200 AD. Voyage uses only reconstructed double-hull canoes and Indigenous navigational techniques.

Barack Obama met with Caitlin Clark and other WNBA All-Stars in Chicago on Friday, telling her to block out the "nonsense" around recent league controversies. Clark, in her second season as a lightning rod, said she appreciated the perspective.

Matt Olson drilled a walk-off three-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to send Atlanta past Baltimore 7-6 at Truist Park, capping a game that swung back and forth all night. Ronald Acuña Jr. singled in his return from the injured list.

Kyle Seigler collected his first career four-hit game as Boston beat Toronto to bounce back after their 15-game winning streak ended mid-week. Red Sox pull within a half-game of the AL East lead.

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was fully cleared at Kansas City's first training-camp practice, telling reporters his repaired ankle is "feeling amazing" as the reigning champs open the road toward another Super Bowl push.

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Weird Al Yankovic revealed he walked away from a seven-figure offer to play Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Comedy Festival, saying the gig "makes me feel icky." The five-time Grammy winner joins a small club of comedians publicly declining the kingdom's cash.

Rick Moranis, in his first major public appearance in decades, received a lengthy standing ovation at Comic-Con for the "Spaceballs" sequel panel. Moranis said the sequel is what finally pulled him back into a project he had turned down repeatedly.

The ACLU gave its inaugural culture-and-thought award jointly to Colin Kaepernick and Bruce Springsteen for what the organization described as sustained contributions to American civic imagination. The award ceremony will run at Carnegie Hall in October.

What it is: Moody's Investors Service issued a new warning that AI capital-spending intensity has climbed so quickly that even the largest, most cash-rich US tech companies are leaning on debt, secondary equity sales, and off-balance-sheet financing to keep up. Deep Dive walks through why that matters and what the second-order effects look like.

The detail: Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet combined are projected to spend roughly $500 billion on AI-related infrastructure over the next 24 months, most of it front-loaded into data centers, chips, and power procurement. All three have raised fresh debt this year, and Meta and Amazon have both used SPV-style financing to hold data-center land off the parent balance sheet — a structure Moody's flagged as reducing balance-sheet transparency even where credit metrics still look strong on paper.

A short history: The last comparable capex boom was the fiber build of 1999-2001, which produced enormous long-term value but also drove several telecoms into bankruptcy when demand growth lagged committed capex. AI infrastructure differs because compute demand is currently outrunning supply, but the structural risk — long-cycle capital tied to short-cycle demand assumptions — rhymes closely.

Why it matters: Debt-financed AI capex compounds through the credit system. Bond funds and insurers hold this paper, utilities are extending huge capex tied to hyperscaler demand contracts, and municipalities are underwriting infrastructure on the assumption that data-center property-tax revenue holds. A slowdown in AI demand would ripple further than the tech balance sheet.

What to watch: Watch hyperscaler capex-to-revenue ratios in Q3 and Q4 filings, which will be the clearest indicator of whether spending is stretching leverage. Watch power-purchase-agreement disclosures from utilities in Virginia, Ohio, and Georgia, which have the highest data-center concentration in the US. And watch the emerging market for "AI-linked" corporate debt, which is likely to be the first indicator of how bond investors price the tail risk.

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