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Company Reports Q2 Revenue of $539.2M

Reports Q2 revenue $539.2M, consensus $488.56M. President and Chief Executive Officer Anton Dibowitz said, "I want to thank our teams across the organization for their unwavering commitment to safe, reliable and efficient operations. Together we delivered another quarter of strong performance, highlighted by revenue efficiency of 98% and the successful startup of two drillships. These achievements helped drive solid financial results despite the impact of the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East."

U.S. Justice Department Plans to Streamline Merger Reviews

Catch up on the top industries and stocks that were impacted, or were predicted to be impacted, by the comments, actions and policies of President Donald Trump with this daily recap compiled by The Fly.MERGER REVIEWS:The Justice Department's antitrust division plans to announce on Thursday a new model for streamlining merger reviews that would quickly focus on the most apparent ways a deal might diminish competition, The Wall Street Journal's Dave Michaels, citing department officials. The move underscores the Trump administration's warmth toward dealmaking, which some critics say will erect roadblocks to challenging anticompetitive mergers, the author notes. The Justice Department recently allowed Paramount'sproposed $81B acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Outstanding merger probes include Transocean'sproposed $5.8B purchase of rival offshore drilling services firm Valaris.IRAN WAR:President Donald Trumpon Truth Social, "A year ago the United States of America attacked, very powerfully, the Houthis, for their interference with commerce and trade, by shooting at ships. Since that time, and during our conflict with Iran, they have acted very responsibly. Unfortunately, now they are starting up again, shooting at two Saudi Arabian ships last night. Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if they do this again, the U.S. will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves, who I am very disappointed with in that they have, until now, acted very professionally and smart. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"NUCLEAR PACT:U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Saudi Minister of Energy His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz bin Salmana peaceful nuclear cooperation agreement, commonly known as a 123 agreement, alongside an accompanying bilateral safeguards agreement. "Together, these two agreements lay the legal foundation for a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership that advances several priority economic and strategic objectives, including nuclear nonproliferation," the department said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "The 123 agreement provides great access for American companies in the Saudi nuclear energy program, benefiting American industry, workers, and supply chains while helping to meet Saudi energy needs. The two agreements also advance U.S. and regional security by upholding high standards of nuclear safety, security, and nonproliferation and strengthening the United States' competitive edge in civil nuclear technology."U.S. DOE AWARDS:Infleqtionannounced it has been awarded three projects to accelerate American scientific research and innovation by the U.S. Department of Energy for the Genesis Mission. The projects include collaborations with Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of Colorado Boulder and span AI-optimized quantum circuit design for nuclear applications, deployable atomic quantum sensing with Agentic AI and nuclear fusion energy research. AI data centers are pulling more power than the grid was ever built to handle, and the industry is recognizing that these types of issues are beyond the capabilities of classical computing alone," said Matthew Kinsella, CEO at Infleqtion. "By applying quantum computing to some of the hardest problems in nuclear and energy research, Infleqtion is playing a critical role in advancing the objectives of the Genesis Mission."