Morning Brief — 2026-07-26

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🇺🇸 US News

Public media stations are reinventing themselves a year after federal funding was cut, with donations helping some local programs restart.
Madison canceled signature public events as Wisconsin's capital deals with fallout from a police shooting.
Americans are rewiring grocery routines after the biggest food-price jump in 50 years.
Biden's tapes with his memoir ghostwriter are set for release after he declined to appeal a court ruling.

Berlin police are searching after a car rammed a Pride crowd, killing one and injuring 16.
France and Spain evacuated more than 340,000 people as wildfires intensified.
Iran-backed Houthis fired missiles at Saudi Arabia after Yemen airstrikes, keeping Gulf risk high.
A Russian attack on a drone exhibition near Kyiv killed 10 people tied to Ukraine's defense sector.

Major U.S. indexes head into the week with summer carry still debated after a volatile Friday for the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq.
Wall Street's AI picks are being reset into Q2 earnings as analysts update conviction lists.
SK Hynix's U.S. share premium is flashing another valuation-warning signal for the AI trade.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, saying it comes close to Fable 5 while improving complex coding work.
Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, expanding from image generation into consumer apps.
Tech layoffs continue as Monday.com joins the list of companies citing AI in workforce cuts.
AI data-center power risks are drawing new scrutiny after a grid disruption exposed fragility in Northern Virginia.
Meta is making its chatbot more like an assistant as consumer AI products keep moving from novelty toward daily workflow.

Analysts named several AI favorites heading into earnings, keeping NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, META, AMD, and QQQ in focus.
SK Hynix's valuation gap is a warning sign for chip enthusiasm across the broader AI stack.
Cybersecurity names got fresh target hikes as analysts lean into long-term security demand from AI-heavy enterprise workloads.

OpenClaw's latest beta release adds remote coding sessions, mobile automation parity, safer channel operation, and gateway recovery fixes.
The release notes also call out Linux deb and AppImage bundles plus guided Control UI provider setup.
OpenClaw docs continue expanding localized documentation, including Japanese-language entry points useful for international setup.