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Today's world in 2 minutes

AI
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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.

CRYPTO
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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.

GEOPOLITICS
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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.