The Daily Shear

West Texas landowners watch border-wall panels go up, Disney hires Character AI's former chief to run its technology, and Washington and Copenhagen offer incompatible accounts of a Greenland deal.

Texas hospitals wait on restored Medicaid funds, Anthropic puts Claude into its own R&D, and a judge makes the Kennedy Center give demolition notice.

San Antonio suspends a 90-year Fiesta institution as the Fed raises rates and a judge demands answers on the Kennedy Center closure.

Hays County freezes a multi-million-dollar police AI deal, the Senate stalls a federal crypto market bill over presidential holdings, and a federal judge blocks renaming the Kennedy Center.

Airbnb backs an Austin housing site, Treasury yields top five percent amid oil spikes, and the Air Force confirms weapons in orbit while Dallas waits on replacement parts.

Texas rushes a San Antonio fly factory against flesh-eating screwworms, chip stocks stall after OpenAI urges industry caution, and the Kennedy Center strains over Donald Trump's naming demands.

El Paso checks its options for disconnected surveillance cameras, AI executives call to slow their own industry, and a federal judge blocks Homeland Security from halving FEMA staff.

Texas blocks mid-cycle maps in Galveston County, ERCOT checks hundreds of data center power requests, and a federal appeals panel stalls White House mail voting rules.

Austin blocks developer fee buyouts near transit lines as diesel prices cross six dollars a gallon and Houthi forces seize a vital Red Sea shipping island.

Austin asks parents to petition for school closures to avert a state takeover, Apple prices its first foldable iPhone at two thousand dollars, and the IAEA sends Iran to the UN Security Council.