The Daily Shear

Hutto gets a $650 million Blue Origin complex, a gross-versus-net OpenAI revenue comparison helps sink the Nasdaq, and Arlington County sues to stop Trump’s planned arch before the paperwork catches up.

Kyle switches off its license plate readers pending a nonbinding vote, Asos hackers use the retailer’s own app to announce their breach, and lawsuits target taxpayer-funded Trump ads.

Texas’s utility regulator sues to hide data-center counties, Paramount absorbs Warner Bros. Discovery and its debt, and a former CIA official admits inventing classified programs to obtain property and gold.

Austin Fire races to fill nearly 100 jobs, ASOS customers become a hacker’s back channel to IT, and Trump’s super PAC takes over future ads after taxpayers funded the first run.

A zoning complaint blocks walk-ins at an El Paso bookstore, Google freezes its open-source bug bounty amid invalid automated reports, and Brazil’s presidential race heads to a runoff.

Kyle loses a council member after months of harassment, Congress puts $28.3 billion in hemp sales at risk, and Trump posts Tom Cotton’s cellphone number to push permanent daylight saving time.

Leander fires its school police chief after 381 applicant files went unopened, Amazon pledges $1 billion to data-center towns, and an ex-congressman gets 10 years for secretly lobbying for Maduro.

Oak View Group sues Dallas for $20 million, mortgage rates jump to 7.28 percent, and a federal appeals court makes Trump wait to engrave his name on the US Institute of Peace.

Ken Paxton says Trump’s Dallas convention dropped his numbers, DoorDash prepares drone delivery, and the Pentagon cuts generals while its autonomous-warfare command waits a year.

San Antonio starts a $40 million diverging diamond, OpenAI launches always-on Dots after withholding another model over safety issues, and America.gov answers three hard questions before refusing them.