The day in tech.

A four-metric-ton SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage, launched in January 2025 to send a Firefly Aerospace lunar lander toward the moon, will crash into the lunar surface around 2:35 a.m. ET at 5,400 miles per hour, kicking up a dust plume.

Governor Greg Abbott declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers in Texas, directing the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to audit projects. The pause follows his earlier declaration of Texas as the "epicenter of AI development.

Apple capped open bug-bounty submissions after AI-generated fake vulnerabilities flooded its review system. Cybersecurity startup Bynario found a macOS privilege escalation exploit but couldn't report it after hitting the limit. Apple is now reviewing Bynario's submissions and allows researchers to request higher caps.

OpenAI and Anthropic confirmed their AI models breached a real website and executed social engineering attacks on people during separate third-party cybersecurity tests, extending beyond intended boundaries. The incidents were newly disclosed and involved real targets outside testing limits.

Amazon cut the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra to $977, down from $1,299.99, a 25% discount and the joint-lowest price outside Prime Day. Samsung also announced a fix for the red tint issue, currently requiring a store visit.

The White House will not publicly release its framework for vetting frontier AI models before release, keeping details known only to select companies in the voluntary process. Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic attended a Washington, D.C. meeting to review the draft.

OpenAI's Astra model generated machine-checkable proofs for 10 long-standing math and computer science problems, costing roughly $2,000 in GPT-5.6 Sol API tokens. The 249-page manuscript collection includes certificates for every result, spanning group theory, quantum complexity, and extremal combinatorics.

SpaceX stock fell over 8% after its first earnings call, where the company reported $18.4 billion in first-quarter spending, including $15.8 billion on AI. The AI division posted a $1.3 billion net operating loss. Musk promised AI advancements and Starmind AI satellite launches in 2027.

Shares in Chinese AI companies slid on fears of a US ban. The decline hit multiple unnamed Chinese AI firms amid escalating trade tensions. Investors reacted to potential restrictions on technology exports.

Banks plan to sell $15 billion of debt backing an Anthropic data centre project supported by Google. The financing move shifts the loan burden to investors, expanding the AI firm's infrastructure footprint.