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Today's world in 2 minutes

AI
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    Noam Shazeer, Google's Gemini co-lead and legendary transformer researcher, just jumped ship to OpenAI.

    Talent exodus signals Google's AI advantage is cracking under internal politics.

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    Anthropic employees accuse Trump admin of targeting them while Trump says G7 negotiations continue — OpenAI, Google, Anthropic CEOs all showed up to the summit.

    AI labs are now sitting at the table with world leaders. Power realigning.

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    Microsoft is quietly selling OpenAI models directly into China, bypassing US export restrictions through Azure cloud loophole.

    Geopolitical AI containment strategy has a gaping Microsoft-shaped hole in it.

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    JPMorgan just blocked Hong Kong staff from using Anthropic's Claude, citing compliance concerns in the middle of the G7 AI lovefest.

    Banks are drawing borders inside AI tools. Geography matters again for SaaS.

CRYPTO
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    Illinois just went live with a 0.2% tax on every crypto transaction — industry calling it 'the most anti-crypto law in the US.'

    Death by a thousand cuts. Illinois traders should migrate yesterday.

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    Coinbase is ditching trading fee dependence, pushing into AI and payment infrastructure as perpetual revenue play while volumes crater.

    Coinbase pivoting from volatility casino to boring infrastructure. Smart or desperate?

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    Bitcoin sliding as Fed nominee Warsh signals he'll 'deliver price stability' — translation: no pivot, rates staying restrictive.

    Macro liquidity trade just got harder. Risk-off headwinds building.

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    Wintermute says Bitcoin could still hit $50K even as 'crypto spring' gets announced — whales aren't convinced the bottom is in.

    Smart money hedging euphoria. Don't fade institutional caution.

GEOPOLITICS
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    Trump says Ukraine war has 'no impact' on US at G7 — signal that funding and arms pipeline about to get a lot thinner.

    Defense contractors and Eastern European assets repricing. Ukraine trade over.

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    US lifting decades of oil sanctions on Iran as part of quiet normalization deal — flood of Iranian crude about to hit market.

    Oil price suppression incoming. Energy shorts printing. Geopolitical realignment underway.