
Social Security COLA 2027 forecast: September's gas spike tilts it toward 3.6%
Official CPI-W data lock in 3.3% for the 2027 COLA with one month left. September gas prices, up 4.4% on August, now tilt the raise toward 3.6%, not 3.5%.
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Omer Sheikh covers Tesla and SpaceX as public-market stories, from the federal audit of Cybercab's safety certification to how much more SpaceX now spends on AI than on rockets. He also follows the capital moving through AI, including Nvidia's reported talks to anchor Anthropic's IPO and Intel's $15 billion request to investors.
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Official CPI-W data lock in 3.3% for the 2027 COLA with one month left. September gas prices, up 4.4% on August, now tilt the raise toward 3.6%, not 3.5%.
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Intel, Micron and AMD fell about 6% premarket and Nvidia 2.7% as the AI slowdown call met a 3% oil spike; ServiceNow and Adobe rose. Nasdaq futures -1.6%, Fed odds 89%.

SK hynix fell 5.4% and Samsung 3.4% at Monday's open, dragging the KOSPI down 3.2%, as Asia reacted to Anthropic's AI slowdown call, oil and a Fed hike.

HPE stock rose 12.4% to a record close after Oracle kept its $90B–$95B capex plan. Its 10-Q shows $30.4B of supplier commitments, up from $5.7B in April.

SpaceX's Q2 filing shows $15.83B of AI capex against $1.17B on Space — 86% of all capital spending. Only Starlink earns. What SPCX investors are actually buying.

We ranked 41 US-listed AI stocks by Q3 performance. Enterprise software is up 33.5% at the median, semiconductors down 14.6%, and no chipmaker made the top nine.

NHTSA opened its Tesla Cybercab audit on September 4. The review examines self-certification for a vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals.

Reuters reports Nvidia is in talks to invest in Anthropic’s IPO, which could raise $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation. The terms remain tentative.

Tesla's Cybercab is heading into robotaxi service this month on hardware no customer car has. The fleet that finally drives itself is the one Tesla kept.

Intel announced a $15 billion stock offering and INTC fell 3.5%. Why sell after a 175% rally — the dilution math, the foundry bet, and what happens next.

Grok 4.3 reaches Bedrock through Mantle, but runtime incompatibility, regional limits, retention, and retry behavior make enterprise portability conditional.

SPCX hit an all-time low of $145.20 a day after joining the Nasdaq-100, down a third from its peak. Inside the lockup wall and float math driving the fall.

Tesla's Q2 2026 delivery report lands July 2 against a 406,024 consensus. The production gap and the energy-storage line will decide how Tesla stock reads it.

Cerebras reports its first results as a public company on June 23. The per-share loss matters less than its $24.6B backlog and ~86% UAE revenue mix.

A deep editorial read on how Elon Musk moved from high-end billionaire status to the trillion-dollar valuation conversation, with a focus on cash-generating base, optionality discipline, and valuation proof points.

SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 (about $1.75 trillion) on June 11 and lists as SPCX on June 12. Its S-1 shows Starlink earning $4.4 billion while launch and AI lose money. A layer-by-layer read of what the price assumes.

Tesla drew the market's attention after JPMorgan upgraded TSLA, but the stock still fell as investors demanded proof on robotaxi, Optimus, and AI.

SpaceX's Starship FAA pause is real, but Starlink scale, Starshield's $2.29B Space Force award, and Artemis dependency show the bigger orbital infrastructure story.