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Today's world in 2 minutes
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China tried to get access to Anthropic's newest model and got shut down — frontier AI decoupling is real now.
US-China AI split hardening. Export controls matter for your API access.
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Anthropic raising at $950B valuation — that's a quarter-trillion jump in months, someone knows something.
Claude's enterprise traction is real. Lawyers are top users now.
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Google launching Googlebook — AI-native laptops running Android, not ChromeOS, shipping this year.
Android as desktop OS play. Claude/Cursor workflows going mobile-first.
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Startup raising $1.3B to build an 'AI Grid' — the pitch is mini data centers in your home for compute arbitrage.
Distributed inference play. Host GPUs, earn yield, Helium model.
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CLARITY Act text dropped before Thursday markup — Washington's 72-hour window to define crypto regulation for a decade.
This sets stablecoin rules and DeFi classification. Read it tonight.
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Exodus dumping 1,000 BTC to fund a payments empire — wallet company pivoting hard from hodl to merchant processing.
Treasury liquidation signal. Watch for more wallet-to-fintech pivots.
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Labor unions now lobbying against crypto legislation — organized labor sees this as Wall Street deregulation 2.0.
New political coalition forming. Crypto vs. labor = unexpected culture war.
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Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City launching fast-track crypto licensing — Buddhist nation building SE Asia's new compliance arbitrage zone.
Prospera 2.0 watch. Another charter city play for regulatory shopping.
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Trump heading to China for Xi summit — trade, Taiwan, and Iran all on the table with zero commitments leaked yet.
Market-moving. Tariff truce or escalation decided this week.
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EU and China stumbling into trade war — Chinese exporters more worried about Iran conflict than tariffs now.
Europe stagnation deepening. Supply chain rerouting accelerating.