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Today's world in 2 minutes
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Microsoft tried to buy Cursor before SpaceX swooped in — the AI coding editor that's eating VS Code alive.
Your dev workflow just got a lot more expensive to replicate.
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Anthropic's leaked Mythos model has governments freaking out — someone got unauthorized access to their most advanced AI.
When frontier labs can't secure their own models, nobody can.
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Google just dropped two new AI chips to challenge Nvidia's stranglehold on training and inference.
Your compute costs might finally come down if competition works.
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Meta is keylogging employees on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia to train AI models — surveillance capitalism eating its own.
Your employer probably knows more about your browsing than you think.
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UK just brought back tax-free Bitcoin — crypto investors can dodge capital gains again through specific structures.
Massive arbitrage opportunity for anyone who can relocate or restructure.
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Russia locks in July crypto payments to dodge sanctions — the parallel financial system is going live.
Dollar hegemony gets its first real stress test this summer.
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BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF just hit 806,700 BTC worth $63.7 billion — the largest institutional accumulation in crypto history.
When the world's biggest asset manager goes all-in, others follow.
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Treasury wants programmable enforcement across all crypto — smart contracts that automatically freeze assets on command.
DeFi's permissionless dream is about to meet permissioned reality.
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Dollar use in global trade just hit record highs despite war and sanctions — de-dollarization efforts are failing spectacularly.
Every crypto 'dollar alternative' thesis just got weaker.
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Palantir scores $300M USDA deal to secure America's food supply — data surveillance goes agricultural.
When spy tech companies guard your groceries, food security became national security.