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Today's world in 2 minutes

AI
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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.

CRYPTO
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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.

GEOPOLITICS
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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.