The Daily Shear

Texas counties race through backdated voter registrations, OpenAI pauses advanced-model training after agent incidents, and the U.S. and China settle for panda diplomacy and another meeting.

Dallas garbage trucks grade lawns, Crusoe drops a $1.25 billion turbine deal for its Abilene AI campus, and the White House cancels congressionally approved spending with five days left to review it.

Texas counties sort a year of lost voter files, Oracle's New Mexico campus waits on power, and Trump and Xi extend their trade truce without a breakthrough.

Austin plans a permanent landfill pipeline, Disney prices its bundles into absurdity, and a judge orders the White House to restore press credentials.

Texas prepares to send lost voter registrations as Waymo takes select Austin riders onto the freeway and Washington signs a Greenland security deal.

Texas freezes new data-center permits, Alibaba scales up its AI plans before Trump and Xi meet, and China’s military purge reaches its second-highest-ranking officer.

San Antonio moves to ban gambling machines that keep paying past the legal limit, Washington and Beijing sketch an AI warning system, and Germany’s CDU gets shut out of a state parliament.

A judge pauses Texas Republicans' bid to close their primaries, Google's Gemini reaches three companies' protected systems, and the White House revokes press badges from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.