📉 SpaceX stock drops below its $135 IPO price

🎹 OpenAI launches Codex Micro, a $230 agent keypad

💳 Stripe just bid $53 billion to buy PayPal

📱 OnePlus stops selling new phones in the US and Europe

🚀 Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first open model

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SpaceX shares fell for a fourth straight day Wednesday and briefly dropped below their $135 IPO price for the first time, closing at $135.27 about a month after the company's June 12 debut.

The stock soared past $225 in mid-June, then slid nearly every week since, with a small public float and heavy retail attention driving sharp swings as the early hype faded.

SpaceX faces another test Thursday when it launches Starship for the first time since the IPO. The plan recovers neither stage, so both splash down in the ocean no matter how the flight goes.

OpenAI released Codex Micro, a $230 light-up keypad built with Work Louder, letting Codex users control fleets of coding agents from a physical device instead of their phone or desktop app.

Backlit "Agent Keys" show each agent's live status, thinking, running, waiting, or done, while a joystick launches workflows like debugging, a dial sets reasoning level, and command keys handle accept, reject, and push-to-talk.

OpenAI calls this a limited run, and it arrives as the company fights Apple over alleged hardware trade-secret theft. A $230 macropad hardly threatens Apple, but it plants OpenAI's flag on the desk.

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, its first model, open-weight under Apache 2.0 with full weights on Hugging Face and live fine-tuning through Tinker, the startup's customization platform.

Inkling is a mixture-of-experts system with 975 billion parameters but activates only 41 billion per task, and a "thinking effort" dial lets users trade reasoning depth for lower cost and faster answers.

TML openly admits Inkling is not the strongest model available, open or closed. Leading a launch with that admission instead of a benchmark chart is a rare move in this industry.

Stripe and private equity firm Advent offered $60.50 a share in cash for PayPal, valuing it above $53 billion. That is a 28% premium over Tuesday's close, backed by about $50 billion in bank financing.

Stripe built its empire serving online merchants but lacks a consumer brand. PayPal brings more than 430 million consumer accounts plus Venmo, handing Stripe direct wallet relationships that money cannot build quickly.

Advent already owns Nuvei, which is buying Payoneer for $2.75 billion to build a Stripe rival. So if this PayPal deal lands, Advent ends up funding both sides of the same fight.

OnePlus and parent company Oppo confirmed Thursday that OnePlus will stop launching new phones in the US and Europe, ending more than a decade of official presence in two of its most important markets.

Oppo framed the exit as a strategic decision, not a retreat, folding OnePlus's technology into its own lineup. Existing owners keep support and updates, but their phones will switch from OxygenOS to Oppo's ColorOS.

Oppo plans to grow in Europe with its Find and Reno phones, but it still doesn't officially sell in the US. So American OnePlus fans lose their brand and get no clear replacement.

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