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U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a 59-page ruling on August 27 voiding the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic, finding it violated the First and Fifth Amendme…
Treasury Secretary Bessent used the Asheville G20 meeting to demand coordinated trade pressure on China's $1.2 trillion surplus, while simultaneously conceding the world's only deb…
The BLS July JOLTS report missed the 7.313M consensus for the second consecutive month, while June was revised down 177K. Hires and quits both dropped sharply, pointing toward a po…
Bitcoin's 90-day Pearson correlation with gold hit an all-time high as of September 1, with the 30-day metric reaching 0.8, a quantitative signal that institutional capital is acti…
Strategy filed a formal opposition letter to MSCI on August 31, calling its revised non-operating company exclusion screen discriminatory and calling for its withdrawal before the…
China deployed a record 244 government vessels around Taiwan in July 2026, a fourfold increase over July 2025, per Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration. The activity looks less like…
The S&P GSCI/S&P 500 ratio is near its lowest reading in more than five decades. Jefferies, UBS, and Azoria Capital are calling a commodity upcycle driven by physical scarcity and…
Gov. Greg Abbott directed PUCT and ERCOT to audit all queued data center projects before any can connect to the Texas grid, halting roughly 1,800 projects and exposing a 474 GW int…
An attacker manipulated Tectonic's TONIC governance token roughly 100x in ~20 minutes to drain an estimated $66M, $75M from Cronos's largest lending protocol. Validators halted the…
ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel told Jackson Hole on August 28 that central banks must place their reserve money directly onchain or risk being displaced by dollar-denom…
FinCEN's proposed rule would sever Banque Misr UAE's five branches from dollar correspondent banking over $1.8 billion in suspected Iran-linked transactions. The China exemption te…
Utah FORGE began its longest-ever enhanced geothermal circulation test on August 12, 2026. Fervo Energy's 500 MW Cape Station sits less than a mile away. The results will determine…
Capital B closed a €21M private placement with repeat strategic investors Adam Back and TOBAM, targeting 270 additional BTC. Four warrants per share could unlock ~€135M more over f…
Huawei and U.S.-blacklisted iFlytek submitted a 102-page tender to Egypt proposing 2,008 Ascend AI chips for military and surveillance use. Washington scrambled Nvidia, AMD, and Mi…
The Chicago Business Barometer crashed 10.5 points to 47.1 in August, the first contraction in four months, while UMich consumer sentiment held at 51.7 with year-ahead inflation ex…
Pakistan announced a government-led Strategic Bitcoin Reserve seeded with seized assets and 2,000 MW of surplus electricity for mining. The Finance Secretary says no legal framewor…
ChatGPT Work's cloud browser can now sign into websites and hold those sessions on OpenAI's infrastructure across tasks. The credential is the least of it.
Environmental groups demand Microsoft cease operations at a 300 MW Vineland, NJ AI data center after a Floodlight thermal drone investigation documented at least 45 of 62 gas gener…
Anthropic committed $45 billion over six years to rent 460 megawatts from Nscale's Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, a fully off-grid, natural-gas-powered microgrid that run…
The Kansas City Fed opened its 2026 Jackson Hole symposium under the theme 'Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,' the first time in the event's history that…
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