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Today's world in 2 minutes

AI
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    Anthropic and OpenAI now control 89% of AI startup revenues — the duopoly is becoming a monopoly structure.

    Build on their APIs or get squeezed; the margin is consolidating upward.

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    China's AI super-apps are remaking their internet while Europe's energy prices could kill their AI race entirely.

    US-China bifurcation accelerating; Europe already priced out of compute arbitrage.

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    OpenAI acquired voice AI startup Weights.gg — real-time voice infrastructure is now in-house at the API layer.

    Voice agents just got faster; rebuild anything using external voice APIs.

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    Britain wants AI sovereignty but keeps buying American tech — the sovereign compute thesis is already dead on arrival.

    Network state without infrastructure is just larping; stack matters more than passport.

CRYPTO
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    Harvard dumped its Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF position — endowment money is rotating out before you notice.

    Institutional exit signal; watch what they do, not what they say.

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    WSJ profiled the anonymous judges settling Polymarket disputes — prediction market infrastructure is still held together by duct tape.

    Risk model update: oracle fragility is your counterparty risk on every trade.

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    Japan's SBI and Rakuten Securities planning crypto investment trusts — retail infrastructure going live in world's third-largest economy.

    Japanese boomers with savings accounts are about to get onboarded; size matters.

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    Bitcoin dropped to two-week low as oil surge and rising yields hit risk appetite — macro correlation is back online.

    Uncorrelated asset thesis dead again; trade it like tech stocks until proven otherwise.

GEOPOLITICS
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    Goldman says Chinese AI models are accelerating faster than expected — the compute export controls aren't working.

    Arbitrage window: China's building without Nvidia; watch which architecture wins long-term.

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    High energy prices could derail Europe's AI race entirely — the continent is structurally uncompetitive on compute costs now.

    Exit signal: European AI startups should incorporate elsewhere or get priced out.