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Corporate America is rationing AI tokens because costs are skyrocketing — companies are implementing hard caps and choosing between tokens or humans.

Your AI budget just became the new headcount freeze.

Anthropic just hit $900 billion valuation after a $65B funding round, making it the most valuable AI firm — bigger than OpenAI.

Claude is officially winning the frontier lab race.

EU is pushing to "intensify" talks with the US over advanced cyber AI models amid Mythos concerns — the regulatory split is accelerating.

Another market bifurcation for builders to navigate.

ByteDance is developing new AI chips like Groq's — China's making its own inference accelerators to route around Nvidia restrictions.

Export controls just got less effective.

CFTC just approved the first-ever regulated crypto perpetuals at Kalshi and Coinbase — legal perps are now live in the US.

Onshore leverage just became real.

JPMorgan's Dimon is publicly fighting the CLARITY Act over stablecoin yields, saying "banks will not accept it" — the banking lobby is terrified.

TradFi knows stablecoins are coming for deposits.

Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US just seized $1 billion in crypto from Iran — first major public confirmation of crypto sanctions enforcement.

Chain analysis tools are working better than anyone admits.

Aave Labs secured dual UK licenses for regulated crypto payment rails — DeFi is going compliant and getting banking permissions.

The UK just became a viable DeFi HQ.

US officials say they're "closing in" on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after Iran tensions — 20% of global oil flows through there.

Oil prices and shipping costs might normalize fast.

Trump publicly ripped into Oman for mediation role, throwing the "Switzerland of the Middle East" into geopolitical spotlight — visa and business implications unclear.

Your Middle East backup plan just got riskier.