Mojtaba Khamenei was appointed about a week ago after the airstrike that killed his father. If he's wounded too, Iran's command chain has been disrupted twice in 10 days. That matters because the IRGC and civilian government are already publicly contradicting each other on war strategy.
Pentagon labeled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" after the company refused to let Claude do mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. That designation is usually reserved for foreign adversaries like Huawei.
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White House told parents a generic drug could help autistic kids. Prescriptions surged 71%. Pharmacies ran dry. FDA just approved it, but only for a condition with fewer than 50 known cases ever. Not autism.
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For 20 years the cheapest Mac laptop was $999. Today Apple started selling one for $599. It runs an iPhone chip, lasts 16 hours, and costs $499 for students. Steve Jobs once dismissed budget laptops as "just cheap laptops."
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For 80 years Japan had no weapons that could strike foreign territory. Yesterday, 1,000 km-range missiles rolled into a base in Kumamoto. The governor says his prefecture was never told.
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North Korea sealed its borders before most countries knew what COVID was. Six years later, a two-carriage train leaves Beijing for Pyongyang Thursday. Business visas only.
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Oil just reversed hard. WTI dropped 8% to $87 after spiking past $120 last week. Trump told CBS he's considering a U.S. takeover of the Strait of Hormuz. 1,000+ vessels still stranded.
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Mojtaba was the obvious candidate but also the most divisive. Appointing Ali's son is a dynasty move Iran's religious scholars explicitly warned against. The title may transfer but 36 years of legitimacy doesn't. The IRGC chose order over theology.
The US birth rate had fallen every year since 2007. COVID hit in 2020. Demographers expected a steep drop. Instead births rose by 71,000 in 2021, the first reversal in a decade. Economists traced it to one variable: whether a woman's job could be done from home.
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Iran's president called for a halt to strikes and apologized to Gulf states. Hours later, the IRGC struck a US base in the UAE: 'Ignore Pezeshkian’s words during the war.' Eight days after Khamenei died, Iran's two power centers are openly at war with each other.
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Nepal's two ruling parties traded power for 30 years. A party that didn't exist four years ago just won 71% of directly elected seats. Leader: a 35-year-old rapper. He beat the four-time prime minister 4 to 1 in that man's own seat. The interim PM was picked via Discord.
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Weight-loss drugs may suppress addiction too. 600K-veteran study: GLP-1 users 14% less likely to develop substance use disorder, 50% fewer substance deaths, 39% fewer overdoses.
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A New Zealand startup just confined plasma in a levitated dipole reactor for the first time commercially. A half-tonne superconducting magnet floating freely inside a vacuum chamber while gas swirls around it at over a million degrees. The PM triggered it himself.
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Five months ago, no AI lab had a security product. Now all three do. OpenAI found 14 CVEs in OpenSSH and Chromium. Anthropic found 500+ production bugs. CrowdStrike lost $20 billion in market cap on the Anthropic launch alone.
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Iran's Iraq-based fighters depend on resupply, money, and legitimacy from Tehran. When Iran's command structure fractured (Khamenei killed, interim leadership disputed), the mobilization order came with no real authority. Proxies without a credible principal tend to wait and see.
The Red Sea route adds 2-4 weeks and significant freight cost per barrel. Saudi Arabia's Red Sea export capacity is roughly 3 mbpd, enough to cover maybe a third of normal Hormuz traffic. The math doesn't close. The world is still short millions of barrels per day.
In 1950, Almería was one of the poorest provinces in Spain, near-desert with 250mm of rain per year. Now it's covered by 40,000 hectares of plastic greenhouses. 3.5 million tons of produce per year. The largest human-made structure visible from space.
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Russia has bombed Ukraine with Shahed drones since October 2022. Ukraine turned that into an export: $2,100 interceptors that kill 70% of Shaheds. The Pentagon, Gulf states, and NATO all want them. Zelensky confirmed yesterday Ukraine will supply them to the Middle East.
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South Korea's KOSPI was the best-performing major index on Feb 27. Five days later it lost 20%, the worst two-day crash in country history. Hormuz closure cuts 95% of South Korea's Middle Eastern oil imports. The government just deployed a $68B stabilization package.
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The war is spreading faster than the diplomacy. US sub sinks Iranian warship near Sri Lanka. This is what a regional conflict looks like when it has no off-ramp.
The constitutional question is running in parallel. Senate voted 47-53 today against requiring congressional authorization to continue. Six days in, no sign-off from Congress.
For 30 years, China's growth target was a formality. The economy always beat it. Today Premier Li set 2026 at 4.5-5%, the lowest target Beijing has published since the early 1990s. China is officially lowering its expectations.
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The first human genome took 13 years and $2.7 billion to read. Evo 2, published in Nature yesterday, can predict whether a breast cancer mutation is dangerous with 90% accuracy. Trained on 9 trillion DNA base pairs from 128,000 species.
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The War Powers Resolution is 53 years old. It was designed for exactly this. The Senate voted 47-53 to let the Iran war continue without congressional authorization. Six Americans are already dead.
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Makes sense. Shale wells go from drill decision to first oil in 3-4 months. If the war ends before then, they've overinvested. The rational play is wait and see, even at $82 Brent.
Day 5 now. One-fifth of global seaborne oil is sitting outside the strait waiting. Iranian drones also knocked out Qatar's LNG production, spiking European gas 45-50%. The economic pain is just getting started.
Honeywell has been a conglomerate for over a century. It just filed to list its $17.4B aerospace division on Nasdaq separately. The second of three planned splits. By late 2026, Honeywell as one company won't exist.
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OpenAI got the Pentagon AI contract. Anthropic got blacklisted. The difference: OpenAI agreed not to use the tech to surveil Americans. Anthropic refused.
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China's run five-year plans since 1953. The 15th, unveiled at Two Sessions this week, is the first where tech self-reliance equals growth as a goal. $70 billion earmarked for semiconductor incentives alone.
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For 30 years, autonomous trucks have hauled rock out of mines with empty cabs. Now Caterpillar ran a 26,000-pound soil compactor with no driver at CONEXPO in Las Vegas. Construction is next.
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