Pins matching date:2026-07-09

After 14 years of stalled foundations, construction officially restarted on 2 World Trade Center with a groundbreaking ceremony, anchored by American Express as its future headquarters tenant.

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-5.6 Sol, its flagship reasoning model for complex work across coding, research, science, cybersecurity, computer use and design.

Fast Retailing's nine-month fiscal 2026 revenue rose 17.1% to ¥3.07 trillion and business profit jumped 33.6% to ¥592.7 billion, a new record, prompting the Uniqlo owner to raise its full-year forecast again.

The Bolliger & Mabillard giga dive coaster opened on 9 July 2026 after a delay from 26 June, rising 309 feet with a 285-foot drop, four inversions and a top speed of 87 mph.

The 2026 Festival of Speed ran 9-12 July at Goodwood House under the theme The Rivals - Epic Racing Duels, with Singer's central sculpture, the 1966 Ford GT40 Mk IIs reunited and Romain Dumas winning the Shoot-Out.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna alongside GPT-5.6 Sol: Terra, a lower-cost model with GPT-5.5-competitive performance, and Luna, its fastest and most affordable tier, at $2.50 and $1 per 1 million input tokens at launch.

Micron raised expected U.S. fab and technology investment above US$250 billion through 2035, updating its earlier US$200 billion plan. The announcement coincided with the first concrete pour at its Clay, New York fab site.

Avantus’s July 9, 2026 financing announcement confirms Aratina 2 under construction in eastern Kern County, with 150 MWac solar and 452 MWh battery storage, expected online by the end of 2026. EIA plant 64215 reports more than 50% construction complete and December 2026 operation target.

Kylian Mbappé missed a penalty, then scored his eighth goal of the tournament and set up Ousmane Dembélé as France beat Morocco 2-0 before 63,811 in Foxborough. It was the last of the seven 2026 World Cup matches at Gillette Stadium, played as Boston Stadium.

Studio Eek's animated adaptation of the Korean hit Tomb Raider King premieres on Japanese TV, following a betrayed raider who returns to the past to loot every relic tomb first.

A South Bay jury found the Chula Vista father guilty after one day of deliberation, five years after May "Maya" Millete vanished; her body has never been found.

On 9 July 2026 the Recording Academy sent membership invitations to more than 4,000 music creators and professionals, its largest class of invitees, ahead of the 2027 Grammy voting.

PepsiCo reported second-quarter 2026 net revenue up 6.4% to US$24.18 billion with organic growth of 2.4% and core EPS of US$2.20, affirmed its 2026 guidance, and saw its shares drop as North American foods stayed weak.

BYD, Denza and Yangwang staged eight debuts on the largest stand in Goodwood Festival of Speed history on 9-12 July 2026, led by the global debut of the Denza Z coupe and Denza's UK launch.

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model for agentic tasks with a 1M-token context window, together with a public preview of the Meta Model API at $1.25 per 1 million input tokens and $4.25 per 1 million output tokens; it scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

PointOne's six-building, 1.8 million sq ft Remington Technology Park near Lucky Hill Road won Fauquier County Board of Supervisors approval on 9 July 2026 to power the campus with on-site natural gas fuel cells; county staff put potential demand at 600 MW (Cleanview 400 MW), and no current cost has been published.

Data center campus in Kentucky with tracked parcel boundary (555 acres, 645 MW).