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Today's world in 2 minutes
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with White House officials to negotiate US government access to their Mythos model after tensions over national security restrictions.
Frontier labs bending to DC pressure sets AGI governance precedent.
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OpenAI's chief product officer Kevin Weil and research chief Bill Peebles are leaving as the company continues shedding 'side quests' to focus on AGI.
Executive exodus signals internal AGI timeline pressure at OpenAI.
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Cerebras filed for IPO with their massive wafer-scale AI chips as demand surges for alternatives to Nvidia's GPUs.
First major Nvidia competitor going public tests market appetite for AI infrastructure diversity.
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Nvidia AI chip rivals attracted record funding as competition heats up against the GPU monopoly in datacenter inference.
Smart money betting big on breaking Nvidia's chokehold on AI infrastructure.
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Bitcoin rockets past $78k as Iran temporarily opens Strait of Hormuz, with crypto stocks surging 10-20% on geopolitical relief.
Risk-on trade accelerating as Middle East tensions ease temporarily.
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UK advances comprehensive crypto regulatory framework as European governments finally build clear compliance infrastructure instead of blanket restrictions.
London positioning as crypto-friendly alternative to EU's hostile regulatory environment.
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Polish PM claims Russian mafia-linked crypto firm secretly funded political opposition parties, exposing crypto's role in election interference operations.
Nation-state actors using crypto rails for political operations getting exposed publicly.
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Mainstream crypto adoption hitting regulatory walls as permissionless protocols clash with government compliance requirements across major economies.
The core crypto promise breaking against regulatory reality in real-time.
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Trump's commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick tells Canada 'they suck' and vows to renegotiate USMCA trade deal with aggressive new terms.
NAFTA 3.0 renegotiation telegraphed early - Canadian assets vulnerable.
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Spain promotes its energy resilience to Iran supply disruptions as Trump trade tensions threaten to reshape European energy markets and dependencies.
European energy arbitrage opportunities emerging as geopolitical alignments shift.