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Today's world in 2 minutes

AI
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    China's Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K3, a model matching GPT-4o performance that triggered a semiconductor selloff and has Wall Street questioning US AI moats.

    Open weights at frontier performance changes your compute cost structure today.

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    White House is now deciding which companies get access to frontier AI models, stripping power from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — access is political now.

    If you're building on frontier APIs, regulatory capture just became your moat risk.

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    Meta negotiating $10B deal to lease compute to Anthropic — the compute wars are becoming a rental market and Claude might run on Zuck's metal.

    Infrastructure consolidation means fewer chokepoints, pick your dependency carefully.

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    Microsoft told its sales team to push its own AI models over OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic — the marriage is ending and MSFT wants its revenue back.

    OpenAI's biggest distribution partner is now a competitor, enterprise deals reshuffling.

CRYPTO
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    Bitcoin dropped below $63K as long-term holders are selling at a loss — retail capitulation signal flashing while Iran tensions add macro pressure.

    LTH selling at loss historically marks bottoms, setup for accumulation phase.

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    Citadel Securities dropped $400M into Crypto.com while T. Rowe Price launched a multi-token ETF — TradFi is no longer watching, they're positioned.

    Wall Street's hedge fund arms are entering, liquidity and legitimacy incoming.

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    CLARITY Act has a four-week Senate deadline to pass — landmark crypto regulation that could actually define clear rules before midterms kill the window.

    First serious regulatory framework; passage creates US onshore opportunities, failure pushes offshore.

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    Michael Saylor pitched Bitcoin with 300 years of fiat history as MicroStrategy keeps stacking — the corporate treasury playbook is becoming doctrine.

    More CFOs will copy the MicroStrategy model, corporate BTC accumulation accelerating.

GEOPOLITICS
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    US and Iran entering sixth day of clashes with escalation fears mounting — oil routes and regional instability hitting markets, positioning question for energy exposure.

    Strait of Hormuz risk premium repricing, oil volatility ahead affects inflation trades.

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    Canadian wood products industry demanding emergency tariffs on foreign goods — protectionism spreading beyond US, supply chain costs rising in Commonwealth markets.

    Trade war contagion spreading north, construction costs and timber derivatives affected.