Pins matching date:2026-07-29

Ultra-portable 20-watt analog guitar amplifier head with a three-band EQ.

Johnson & Johnson closed its $1 billion cash purchase of Firefly Bio, the South San Francisco biotech behind the Firelink degrader antibody conjugate platform for KRAS-driven and other hard-to-treat solid tumours.

Hermès' consolidated revenue reached €8.2 billion in the first half of 2026, up 6% at constant exchange rates, with recurring operating income of €3.4 billion, 41.0% of sales.

All seven members of BTS posted a joint statement on 29 July 2026 saying they will not submit music for Grammy consideration, a month after the Recording Academy created Best Asian Pop Music Performance.

SK hynix reported on 29 July 2026 second-quarter revenue of 79.3187 trillion won and operating profit of 60.5426 trillion won, a 76% margin, pushing first-half revenue past 100 trillion won for the first time.

On 29 July 2026 Robinhood reported second-quarter revenue up 32% to a record US$1.31 billion, diluted EPS of US$0.62 and record net deposits of US$21.7 billion, with 4.8 million Gold subscribers.

On 29 July 2026 Meta reported second-quarter revenue of US$60.80 billion, up 28%, while net income fell 14% to US$15.85 billion after US$2.40 billion of legal charges and US$1.18 billion of severance for the May layoffs.

Zeekr launched the 9X Super Hybrid six-seat luxury SUV in Europe on 29 July 2026 as the Ultra 6-Seater, with up to 897 hp, a 10-80% charge in 9.5 minutes and up to 737 km of range, designed in Gothenburg.

TeraWulf bought the roughly 210 MW Morgantown Generating Station in Charles County, Maryland (250 buildable acres) to build up to 1,000 MW of power and data center load, starting with about 500 MW; FERC cleared the purchase on 29 July 2026 but data center construction needs separate approvals, and no cost has been published.

Audi unveils the Q9 and SQ9 in New York on 28 July 2026: a three-row flagship SUV with a 429 hp V6 in the US, 0-60 mph in 4.9 seconds and prices from US$89,095.

General Dynamics reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $14.1 billion, up 8.1%, earnings of $4.24 a share, up 13.4%, and $20 billion of orders for a 1.4-to-1 book-to-bill, leaving a $136.5 billion backlog.

Qualcomm's revenue slipped 4% to $9.95 billion as handset chip sales fell 20%, and Cristiano Amon said the company would raise chip prices from 1 September to cover soaring memory and manufacturing costs.

GARDEN Culture's Chinese fantasy donghua Raised by Demons: Panda Li follows a human boy raised among demons on a mission of revenge.

Los Angeles Tourism and Tourism Economics counted 49.5 million visitors to LA in 2025, down about 1% on 2024, generating $42.6 billion in business sales and supporting more than 530,000 jobs.

US safety regulators opened a preliminary evaluation of 1,198,300 Model 3 (2018-2020) and Model Y (2021-2023) cars after 156 complaints that the front lower lateral link detached, often without warning, risking loss of steering control.

On 29 July 2026 Arm reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of US$1.29 billion, up 22% year over year, with data centre royalties more than doubling and AGI CPU demand still above US$2 billion.

Rio Tinto's 2026 half-year results on 29 July 2026 showed underlying EBITDA up 28% to US$14.8 billion, free cash flow up 75% to US$3.8 billion and a US$3.4 billion interim dividend.

On 29 July 2026 the US government awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract modification worth up to US$53.86 billion for PAC-3 MSE interceptors, bringing the multiyear total to US$58.62 billion.

On 29 July 2026 the Department of War awarded US$76.6 billion for five Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines and nine Block VI Virginia-class attack submarines, split between General Dynamics Electric Boat and HII's Newport News Shipbuilding, the largest submarine deal in Navy history.

The Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show opened to the press on 29 July 2026 and ran to 9 August at ICE BSD City, where Leapmotor launched in Indonesia and Zeekr debuted as Chinese-brand sales rose 82%.

xAI's Grok Voice 2.0 scores 82.9 on Artificial Analysis's speech-to-speech index (up from 75.7), answers in 0.70 seconds and transcribes 1.5-2.0x more accurately than Deepgram Nova 3 and ElevenLabs Scribe v2.

BMW Group chose Qualcomm as the lead compute silicon provider for its next-generation digital cockpit and driver-assistance and automated-driving systems through the next decade, across Snapdragon Cockpit and Snapdragon Ride.

The FOMC kept the target range at 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent on 29 July 2026 by a 9-3 vote, with Beth Hammack, Neel Kashkari and Lorie Logan preferring a quarter-point increase.