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The Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract worth up to $35 billion to quadruple production of THAAD interceptors, one of the first multiyear deals under the Department of War's Acquisition Transformation Strategy.

Qualcomm and Meta signed a multi-generation agreement making Qualcomm a data-centre CPU supplier to Meta, whose next-generation server fleet is to run Qualcomm's Dragonfly C1000, in production from the second half of 2028.

The 30th Rim of the Pacific exercise brought 30 nations, 30 ships, five submarines, more than 190 aircraft and more than 30,000 personnel to waters in and around the Hawaiian Islands from 24 June to 31 July 2026.

At its 2026 Investor Day in New York, Qualcomm branded its data-center products Dragonfly and unveiled the 250-plus-core Dragonfly C1000 CPU, the AI300 accelerator and High Bandwidth Compute memory, with Meta signed up for the CPU; the stock jumped 15%.

By 7 votes to 1 the Rent Guidelines Board set 0% increases for one- and two-year leases on rent-stabilized apartments starting between 1 October 2026 and 30 September 2027. It fulfils Mayor Mamdani's campaign pledge and is the first freeze ever for two-year leases.

The federal pipeline regulator waived its 180-day deadline for repairing longitudinal seam weld corrosion on Lines CA-324 and CA-325 until June 2036, in exchange for in-line inspections every six to nine months and stricter repair criteria. It replaces the emergency permit that expired in February.

Ferrero recalled specific batches of frozen Nutella Croissant and Nutella Muffin in seven European countries because they might contain metal fragments; the lots came from its Fresystem bakery near Naples.