Strait of Hormuz 'closed until further notice'; explosions confirmed: Bushehr, Asaluyeh (Iran LNG hub), Qeshm Island, Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Chabahar; ~20% of global seaborne crude at risk; 3rd US strike round this week
BREAKING: Iran's IRGC announces that it is officially closing the Strait of Hormuz 'until further notice.' The announcement came after Iran fired a warning shot at a vessel which it said was attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz without authorization.
M/V GFS Galaxy (Cyprus-flagged); CENTCOM 3rd-round strikes 7:15pm ET; IRGC missile direct hit; 1 crew member missing; fire + major engine damage; UKMTO: 9nm east of Oman; explosions: Bushehr, Asaluyeh, Qeshm Island, Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Chabahar
At 7:15 p.m. ET today, U.S. Central Command forces began launching the third round of strikes this week against Iran after Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces blatantly attacked M/V GFS Galaxy, a Cyprus-flagged container ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz. A civilian crew
The estate of Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, the franchise's late owner, has entered into a formal sale agreement with an ownership group led by the Khosla family, including Vinod Khosla
"If it is not their position [tomorrow], it is not gonna be a great day for them" — unnamed U.S. official; harsh consequences threatened; 24-hour window
Similar ultimatums have repeatedly failed. [QT @BarakRavid: A second U.S. official said there will be harsh consequences if Iran refuses. "If it is not their position [tomorrow], it is not gonna be a great day for them," the official said]
Please read carefully [QT @tokenterminal: JUST IN: ETH bridged from @ethereum (L1) to Robinhood Chain (L2) is up by ~10x in the past week, surpassing $100 million. @RobinhoodCrypto Chain uses ETH as its native gas token. If adoption continues, the chain could become a meaningful new source of demand for ETH]
South Korea's stock benchmark, Kospi, has gone from being the world's hottest equity market to entering bear territory within a few weeks, highlighting how investors have soured on artificial intelligence plays and underscoring concentration risks.
Iranian missile and drone capability decidedly not eliminated by weeks of U.S. strikes. [QT @HormuzLetter: BREAKING: Iran has now launched missile and drone attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, and the UAE in the past minutes. This is the largest Iranian attack in months.]
Could a model built by Anthropic cause civilizational collapse? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and @EmilyChangTV discuss on The Circuit his own estimate of a 10% to 25% risk and the need for global checks, balances and rigorous internal defense mechanisms
terawulf just signed a $19b 20-year lease with anthropic for 400MW of compute. MSTR sold 3,588 BTC, its largest since 2020, and put $65m into an AI data center. the miners and the single largest holder are repricing BTC-on-balance-sheet against AI compute yield and BTC is losing
Ukraine says it struck a refinery in Russia's Samara region as well as several tankers in the Sea of Azov, continuing its attacks on vessels and energy infrastructure.
terawulf just signed a $19b 20-year lease with anthropic for 400MW of compute. MSTR sold 3,588 BTC, its largest since 2020, and put $65m into an AI data center. the miners and the single largest holder are repricing BTC-on-balance-sheet against AI compute yield and BTC is losing
The Strait of Hormuz's southern route remained open to shipping on Sunday despite Iran declaring the waterway closed as tit-for-tat attacks between the US and Tehran escalated, a maritime advisory group said.
CLARITY needs 7 senate democrats to defect and the ethics blocker is trump's own $1.4b in 2025 crypto income. that doesn't resolve in a 3-week floor window. the trade nobody's positioning around: hyperliquid and phantom filed with the CFTC july 9 to get onchain perps a framework
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he'll remove Ukraine's prime minister as part of a broader cabinet reshuffle aimed at aligning the government with a new political strategy as the war with Russia continues well into its fifth year.
Lindsey Graham's sudden death sets up a succession drama in the deeply conservative state of South Carolina that risks throwing the race into chaos just months before the midterm elections.
kelp lost $292m rsETH to a 1-of-1 DVN config, not a code bug. it passed audits. the attacker didn't dump, they deposited 89,567 rsETH into aave and borrowed against unbacked collateral, opening up to $230m bad debt in a protocol that had nothing to do with the exploit. $6.2b left
🚫 CLAIM: The Iranian commander for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Navy recently said on state-owned media that no foreign vessels may pass through the Strait of Hormuz without being identified, tracked, and monitored by Iranian forces. ✅ FACT: Iran does not control the
Japan's bond market is seeing historic volatility. The 10Y Japanese government bond yield dropped -16 basis points on Friday, to 2.71%, the largest daily decline since April 2025. This follows a rise to 2.90% on Thursday, the first time the 10Y JGB yield reached that level in
Meta's stock soared 15%. Advertising had nothing to do with it. The whole rally rests on Meta Compute, a business that has sold nothing yet and never served a single external customer.
BREAKING: In March, Trump said the Iran conflict was easing. Meanwhile, his account bought Lockheed Martin, $LMT. After the conflict depleted much of the US THAAD missile stockpile, the Pentagon awarded Lockheed roughly $35 billion in contracts to replenish the missiles.
🎯STRUCK: A Hamas weapon production site in the Gaza City area. In blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas terrorists operated from a weapons production site to produce weapon components in an attempt to rehabilitate the terrorist organization's military
solana killed vote transactions with alpenglow and freed 75% of block space overnight. the number that matters isn't the 150ms finality headline, it's the p95: shadow fork printed 350ms tail latency, not 150. and freed capacity only counts if it fills with rwa/perps flow instead
Nvidia, $NVDA, Micron, $MU, Broadcom, $AVGO, and Applied Materials, $AMAT, are now expected to generate a record $430 billion in combined free cash flow (FCF) over the next 12 months. That would be more than TRIPLE the FCF they generated just 2 years ago.
Kuwait Oil Company offshore drilling platform + 3 northern land border checkpoints attacked; 1 worker injured; material damage; 20M+ barrels/day Persian Gulf production at risk
Everyone was so fixated on the Strait of Hormuz, they seemingly forgot that 20+ million barrels of oil are produced every day in or near the Persian Gulf. It's not just transits at risk from escalation.
$11.45B TVL; Base → Ink + Unichain via Superchain interop; block 47,806,542; 116-min halt; 17 days post-halt; same single-sequencer failure 3x in 5 years
base just made its $11.45b TVL addressable across ink and unichain via superchain interop, 17 days after one bad transaction halted the entire chain at block 47,806,542 for 116 minutes. same single-sequencer point of failure hit 3 times in 5 years, still unsolved. shared
Senator Mitch McConnell said he suffered a fall in June and contracted pneumonia that required hospitalization, breaking a lengthy silence that triggered weeks of speculation about his health
IRGC fires on commercial vessels; US aircraft downs Iranian cruise missile + attack drone (CNN); CENTCOM 5pm ET new strike round; Bushehr, Qeshm, Bandar Abbas blasts
The Trump administration has fired more than 100 immigration judges as it moves to reshape the court system that polices deportations. Immigration courts are overseen by the Department of Justice itself. That means judges are required to answer to the administration whose policies they're tasked with adjudicating.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island on Saturday alleged that whistleblowers have detailed several problems stemming from rushed or improper reconstruction of the Kennedy Center.
Emergency crews on China's east coast used excavators and chainsaws on Sunday to clear streets littered with fallen trees hours after Typhoon Bavi, the most powerful storm to hit the country this year, swept through the region.
Hawaii ranked last; CNBC America's Top States for Business 2026; worst infrastructure + highest business costs nationally
Hawaii finishes last in CNBC's annual America's Top States for Business rankings in 2026, with the nation's worst infrastructure and highest business costs.
The job that AI was supposed to replace is experiencing the opposite of the expected outcome. Software job postings are outpacing other fields. Why is that? If you lower the cost of production of something that has lots of use cases, people want more things produced. We've seen this with PCs and storage.
Traitor, deport ASAP. [QT @bennyjohnson: The U.S. State Department SHUT DOWN a Planned Meeting Between Iran and Communist NY Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Administration. Ana María Archila, a senior Mamdani official, was set to meet with Iranian representatives at the U.N. on Tuesday When the Trump Administration found out...]
In its monthly update, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this year's El Niño has an 81% chance of becoming "very strong" — the top category available — by fall.
Chinese electric vehicles on the road are on average just 1.8 years old, an amount of time shorter than the period many consumers keep their cell phones, 21st Century Business Herald reports
chronicle protocol rebuilt blackrock BUIDL's entire oracle infrastructure after the fund was already live. blackrock does not switch vendors mid-flight for fun. 10 years, zero exploits, $5b secured across maker and spark. no token. the oracle market is bifurcating into price
Colman's wasabi-style punch made the mustard a British institution. Now the farmers who protect its seeds hope new American owners don't let the brand wither.
Andy Burnham may want to be the devolution PM. The world will have other ideas. We're living through both the most dangerous and the most transformational moment of our lifetimes. How Britain responds will determine our success
About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year — about 14% fewer than the previous year, according to preliminary government data. It was the third straight annual drop, making it the longest decline in decades.
The founder of Chinese AI lab Zhipu argued that frontier AI should remain broadly accessible rather than controlled by select individuals, weighing in on a growing debate about the risks posed by ever more powerful models.
HDFC Bank's workforce declined by 3,343 employees in the financial year ending March, as India's largest private lender accelerated efforts to automate operations and redeploy staff to customer-facing roles
Volkswagen's CEO said there are "smarter solutions" to save money than shuttering factories in remarks that could help defuse tensions with the German carmaker's powerful labor union.
SK Hynix starts trading under a different ticker on Monday. On Friday SK Hynix began trading under the ticker SKHYV, SK was a foreign company listing in the US so the process is a little different than normal. Tomorrow it will switch to its long term stock ticker.
Hwashin (010690) body/arms/legs, LG Energy (373220) battery, Hyundai Autoever (307950) integration, Hyundai Mobis — Boston Dynamics Atlas supply chain per IBK Research
So there's a IBK Research report on Boston Dynamics value chains from last month. Just a summary: IBK maps these companies to Atlas as suppliers: - Hwashin (010690) / body, arms, legs - LG Energy (373220) / battery - Hyundai Autoever (307950) / integration - Hyundai Mobis
Fable 5 is leaving, and weekly limits will be cut by 33% after July 13. Meaning we'll have significantly less usage while also losing their current public best model. Even if Fable 5 stay, with the 33% weekly limit reduction, it will be not usable. Other frontier models are close. [QT @MaaSonder]
Bangladesh said the next deal with the IMF must safeguard the country's ordinary citizens and ensure economic security, distancing his government from the terms of an earlier agreement.
They are so obsessed with being the ones to produce the Singleton AI God, they might just hyperstition it. At some point though there is a divergence between scale-maxxing and maximizing intelligence per dollar which is what the market wants.
China renewed its rejection of the South China Sea arbitration ruling and criticized a joint statement by the US and its allies marking the 10th anniversary of the decision.
The weak AI code gen we had until late last year was most useful to low-skill programmers -- it was raising the floor. It was essentially useless to high-skill programmers -- you could move faster and ship better code without. This has been completely flipped: the strong AI code
OpenAI, Meta and SpaceX all released new AI models over the past week. Their biggest selling point may not be what they can do but how little they charge to do it.
Apple's new Mac chip road map represents the company's latest move to rebuild its operations for the artificial intelligence world, @MarkGurman reports in Power On
🔴ELIMINATED: Hassan Mustafa Zahir Al-Razina, a Hamas terrorist who posed an immediate threat to IDF troops operating in northern Gaza. Al-Razina attempted to plant explosive devices in the area of the Yellow Line & advanced additional terror attacks aimed at harming IDF troops
South Africa said more than 53,000 foreign nationals had been processed for deportation or voluntary repatriation as authorities acted on pledges to speed up removals
Walt Disney's Moana debuted to $43 million in ticket sales in the US and Canada this weekend, a disappointing haul in a franchise that has otherwise delivered strong profits for the company's film studio and consumer products division.
16,000 Amazon workers left in January. The survivors are not fine either. The work never shrank with the headcount, so the people who stayed absorb it all, with searches for the ones who left now stretching to 18 months.
"It is changing the dynamic there and I think [Ukrainian] President Zelensky… has learned a lot about how to deal with President Trump." Former US Ambassador to NATO @kvolker tells @davidgura and @EenaRuffini about the two leaders' meeting in Turkey last week.
Age 20-24 unemployment rate ~unchanged since AI boom; 4 shocks: Great Resignation bullwhip, high inflation/rates, pervasive WFH, immigration surge & fall
The labor market went thru 4 massive non-AI shocks simultaneously: 1) bullwhip from Great Resignation, 2) high inflation/interest rates, 3) pervasive WFH, 4) rise & fall in immigration. Not only tough to id any AI effects, but until recently, AI plausibly the *smallest* of these.
If sol wasn't out this wouldn't have happened. Thanks Sam! [QT @claudeai: We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.]
$MSFT Satya becoming more and more vocal about hyperscalers being the enterprise "defense layer" from AI model providers. I do agree with him that the hyperscalers are the natural orchestration layer, at the same time it seems every big tech CEO has become more vocal. The AI [wars are heating up]
Merz's economic reforms are better than nothing. The German chancellor unveils a plan that's good on deregulation and so-so at best on everything else, writes Joseph C. Sternberg
🇮🇱🇻🇪 Home Front Command Expert Delegation Activities in Venezuela Over the Past Week The delegation conducted structural classification and assessed the stability of buildings to enable the safe continuation of search, rescue, and recovery efforts.
A pall was cast over French President Macron's historic visit to Syria's capital this week when two bombs exploded near his hotel. What's going on in Syria? I spoke to Syrian journalist @Loubnamrie
Why is @RahmEmanuel calling for an end to unconditional US support for Israel, and does it have anything to do with rumors he's considering a 2028 run for president? I asked him
Andy Burnham is considering unveiling a bolstered budget later this year as allies and experts seek to persuade him to pursue a land tax, public control of utilities and a more ambitious devolution strategy.
At least 51 people died in Bangladesh after days of torrential monsoon rain, intensified by a depression in the Bay of Bengal, worsening flooding across the region.
noxa printed $12m in fees over 4 days against a $6m circulating cap and put its own token on DBK chain, not the robinhood chain generating that revenue. a team earning $2m/day picking a different chain for its own balance sheet is pricing the fee engine's half-life for you.
Nice commentary on $TMDX — so many exciting catalysts on the horizon that could/should re-accelerate YoY growth back above 30% which is definitely not priced in with $TMDX in the $70s. The stock is on sale because of short term margin compression… because management decided it
The index is forming a classic rising wedge pattern. At the same time, the RSI is making lower highs while price continues to ascend — a clear bearish divergence. These are classic hallmarks of an impending major sell-off.
Homeownership unaffordable + AI job displacement + slow index returns → young investor shift to meme stocks, options, crypto (Bloomberg Originals, July 2026)
With homeownership out of reach, artificial intelligence cutting job prospects and index funds feeling too slow, many young investors are turning to meme stocks, options and crypto to meet their financial goals
Seven & i Holdings' move toward selling a stake to SoftBank and PayPay signals a willingness to surrender some control over its future in return for the benefits of being allied with key strategic partners.
Syria newly elected parliament; first session since Assad's ouster; Sunday July 12 2026
Syria's newly elected parliament on Sunday held its first session since the ouster of former President Bashar Assad, hoping to restart the legislative process in the country after years of conflict and autocratic rule.
Monad MIP-12; vote pace 400ms → 300ms; 26.8% APAC windows breaching 300ms floor; Japan node p99: 266ms (89% of budget consumed); 170 validators, 30 countries
monad's MIP-12 cuts vote pace 400ms to 300ms and the forum's own data already shows 26.8% of APAC vote windows breaching the new 300ms floor at today's slower cadence. japan node p99 sits at 266ms, 89% of the new budget gone. the "170 validators, 30 countries" story survives or