The New Grok Times — May 10, 2026

World

Aramco Prints a $33.6 Billion Quarter as Iran's Aerospace Chief Says the Missiles Are Locked

Aerial view of the East-West pipeline crossing the Saudi desert at dawn with a faint Hormuz tanker on the horizon

TL;DR

Saudi Arabia's pipeline runs full while Iran's commander waits for the order — two answers to Trump's three-day window arrived Sunday, neither of them his.

MSM Perspective

Reuters and the National frame the Aramco beat as a war-premium bonanza; the IRGC threat is filed under regional tension.

X Perspective

X reads the Mousavi line as the Iranian reply Tehran refuses to put in writing — a kinetic counter-text inside Trump's window.

By Yosef Stern, Jerusalem May 10 9 min read

President Trump mid-shrug at the White House South Lawn boom as reporters press in with microphones at dusk

Politics

Iran Has Not Answered Trump's Fourteen-Point Proposal as the Window Closes Wednesday

Tehran's silence is past the mid-point of Trump's one-week window — and the President's only public answer Saturday was 'we'll see what happens.'

By Samuel Crane, Washington May 10 7 min read

Smoke rising from a struck building in Saksakiyeh at dusk, a rescue worker silhouetted against the orange glow

World

Israeli Strikes Kill Thirty-Nine Across Lebanon as Day-23 Ceasefire Breaks Past Beirut

Saturday was the worst day of the Day-23 ceasefire — and the first time the strikes crossed the Saadiyat highway, twenty kilometers south of the capital, outside Hezbollah's traditional ground.

By Yosef Stern, Jerusalem May 10 6 min read

Red Square mostly empty at noon under a single jet contrail, parade barriers up but troops thin on the ground

World

Russia's Three-Day Truce Produces Sixteen Hundred Reported Violations by Noon

The May 9 truce neither side intended to keep collapsed at the only pace it could — 1,630 violations by noon, 264 downed drones, and a 45-minute Victory Day parade with no tanks.

By Katya Volkov, Moscow May 10 6 min read

The U.S. District Courthouse in Washington at dawn with security perimeter visible and press cameras assembling

Politics

Cole Allen's Pretrial Inherits a DHS Finding That Iran War Motivated the White House Attack

A federal intelligence assessment now says Trump's Iran war 'may have contributed' to the man who shot a Secret Service agent — Monday's pretrial hearing inherits the finding.

By Samuel Crane, Washington May 10 7 min read

A pharmacy counter from above with two pill bottles side by side, one branded Wegovy, one Foundayo, and a printed prescription in the foreground.

Life

Wegovy Pill Crosses Two Million Scripts in Sixteen Weeks as Foundayo Holds at 7,335

Novo's oral GLP-1 is now a population-health event at $149 a month, while Lilly's launch trails the same week's revenue model by twenty-fourfold.

By Nora Whitfield, Chicago May 10 7 min read

The bathtub ring on the red sandstone walls of Lake Powell with the water level visibly below the historic mark and Glen Canyon Dam in the distance.

World

Lake Powell Spring Runoff Falls to Thirteen Percent of Average as Reclamation Cuts Releases by 1.48 Million Acre-Feet

Friday's federal forecast is a record-low 13 percent of normal, leaving Lake Powell 35 feet above its dead-power pool and Hoover Dam staring at a 40 percent hydropower loss by fall.

By Dara Osei, London May 10 7 min read

World

Super Hornets From Two Carriers Strafe Three Iranian Tankers in Forty-Eight Hours

CENTCOM disclosed Saturday what carriers from Lincoln and Bush did with 20mm cannon and PGMs on May 6 and May 8 — the first naval-aviation strafing action of the Hormuz blockade.

By Yosef Stern, Jerusalem May 10 6 min read

World

Britain Sails HMS Dragon to the Gulf for a Mission That Activates Only When Iran Agrees

London moved a Type 45 destroyer from Cyprus to the Gulf on Saturday for a coalition escort it cannot start without the very ceasefire Tehran has yet to sign.

By Charles Ashford, London May 10 6 min read

Politics

Murkowski and Barrett Bring Iran AUMFs as the Senate Returns to a Strafing Record

Sixteen days of 'no first filing' may break — Barrett filed a House Iran AUMF, Murkowski files a Senate one next week, and Trump's April 8 'hostilities terminated' letter just hit two carriers.

By Samuel Crane, Washington May 10 7 min read

Life

Cherie DeVaux's Mother Once Asked If Winning The Derby Was A Little Lofty

On the Mother's Day after her daughter became the first woman to train a Kentucky Derby winner, Janet DeVaux's old worry — that the goal was a little lofty — reads as honest.

By Amara Okonkwo, Lagos May 10 5 min read

Life

Twenty-Three Right Whale Calves And Twenty Mothers Close The Best Season Since Two Thousand Nine

Twenty-three calves and twenty returning mothers closed the right whale season — and the calving interval compressed back toward the historic norm for the first time in years.

By Kenji Nakamura, Tokyo May 10 5 min read

Technology

Pentagon Signs Seven AI Contracts Without Anthropic as White House Drafts a Civilian Reentry

The Pentagon institutionalized the Anthropic exclusion last week with seven contracts; the White House is drafting an executive order that walks the OMB ban back on the civilian side.

By Theo Kaplan, San Francisco May 10 5 min read

Business

Cerebras Book Tops Twenty Times Cover at the Raised Range as Bookrunners Demand Limit-Only Orders

Morgan Stanley, Citi, Barclays and UBS broke convention and required limit-only orders to surface what Cerebras buyers will actually pay; the book topped 20x at the raised $125–$135 range.

By Theo Kaplan, San Francisco May 10 5 min read

Technology

Brockman Trial Confirms Musk Offered Altman a Tesla Board Seat and Worked the OpenAI Poach List

Shivon Zilis testified Friday that Musk offered Altman a Tesla board seat in late 2017 and worked the OpenAI poach list while still on its board; Brockman's five-stake list lands as Cerebras prices.

By Theo Kaplan, San Francisco May 10 5 min read

Entertainment