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UNGA's General Debate opens with Lula first and Trump second, one day ahead of the Trump-Xi Washington summit (Nadella, Huang, Altman and Amon all confirmed for Thursday's state dinner) with AI export policy and Taiwan the real items on the table; Oman postpones the planned Salalah Hormuz-reopening meeting "in the interests of consensus," the latest one-day slip in a months-long negotiation; CNN, MS NOW and Politico sue the Trump administration over their White House press-credential ban, hearing set Wednesday before the same judge who restored Jim Acosta's badge in 2018. In AI: Jensen Huang's public break from Amodei's "pace the frontier" slowdown call now has Altman, Musk and DeepMind's Hassabis on the other side, while Anthropic's October IPO timeline firms in press reports (single-sourced) and Claude discloses it now handles 26% of its own model R&D. Markets: Tokyo dark all week for Japan's first five-day Silver Week in 11 years, Bitcoin +6.5% to $86.6k, gold near record highs, WTI holding above $93 on unconfirmed Iran seven-day-reopening chatter. Black holes of every size turn out to "burp" jets on the same feeding-cycle schedule, and a loose emu shuts down a Florida toll road until troopers corral it into a Road Ranger van.

Trump hosts Xi in Washington Wednesday-Thursday with AI, Taiwan and the Iran war on the agenda and a dozen tech CEOs (Bezos, Pichai, Altman, Cook, Musk, Huang) at the state dinner -- the week's real catalyst, not today's tape; Trump's ban on CNN/MS NOW/Politico draws mounting legal threats but no suit filed yet; Germany's AfD still can't turn its record Saxony-Anhalt plurality into a government two weeks on. Anthropic reportedly weighs a new model launch ahead of its own IPO to counter GPT-6 Astra, even as a zero-click RCE (Plugin4Shell) hits Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and Gemini CLI -- Anthropic and OpenAI patched, Copilot and Gemini CLI have not; Huang says Nvidia will double chip volume next year. Markets: Tokyo closed for a holiday, Stoxx 600 -1.1% Friday on an autos/telecoms selloff, US futures firm on falling oil ahead of the summit. Juno spacecraft dust data suggests Mars has been quietly seeding the solar system's zodiacal light for eons, and a Rotterdam food truck trades cigarette butts for pancakes.

Trump bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House over "fake news" claims — reporters turned away and credentials pulled Saturday, First Amendment lawyers call it unconstitutional; the Middle East stays hot through the weekend with Israel striking southern Lebanon again (one round nearly hitting paramedics), Saudi air defenses downing a Houthi missile aimed at Riyadh, and Iran adding fresh demands before Hormuz talks with Oman can advance. Quiet weekend in AI, but Anthropic is reportedly weighing a new model launch to counter GPT-6 Astra even as Amodei's own slowdown essay keeps drawing public allies in Altman and Musk. Weekend-light markets strip (WTI $100.30, gold $4,399, 2Y/10Y flat at 4.67%/4.94%); no fresh QQQ levels this edition (Job 3 state stale since 8/9). A Pikachu plush fresh off 67 days on the ISS becomes the mascot of a new ESA x Pokemon tour, and two Taipei Zoo chimps force open a door for an unauthorized afternoon stroll past the giraffes.

The Houthis complete their takeover of Yemen's entire Red Sea coast (Mokha port plus the Mayyun/Perim island chokepoint) even as oil falls further (WTI -2.3% to $99.53) on word Aramco can restore half its bombed East-West pipeline within days; Supreme Court blocks Trump's mail-ballot restrictions for the 2026 midterms; CBO puts an official number on the war-inflation link (>40% of Q2 CPI, $38B in direct costs); OpenAI discloses six more "unexpected or concerning" AI-behavior incidents the same week Amodei's slowdown essay draws public backing from both Altman and Musk, while OpenAI simultaneously shops a $1.5T funding round; Asian Games open tonight in Nagoya. NASA's LRO confirms the largest newly-formed impact crater ever recorded in the solar system, and a newly discovered New Guinea snake is named after Guns N' Roses' Slash.

Quadruple witching. Poland's Tusk warns Russia is preparing "accidental" drone/missile strikes on NATO members backing Ukraine; Trump's Kennedy Center fight lands in court with a judge ordering 30-day demolition notice; Algeria's airspace ban on UAE aircraft (announced 9/10) takes effect today; Bangladesh's measles outbreak passes 1,000 child deaths. Futures firm modestly (QQQ +0.38%, NQ +0.37%, ES +0.14%) extending Thursday's Fed-hike-selloff bounce as oil eases to $101.21 on Saudi pipeline-repair news and gold hits fresh highs ($4,384.78). OpenAI is reportedly shopping a private round at a $1.5T valuation, Oracle jumps ~5% on the same AI-buildout optimism even while cutting 359 Seattle jobs, and Anthropic's S-1 is said to be due within days. Scientists describe VIPR, a likely evolutionary ancestor to CRISPR's Cas protein, in Science; Conagra breaks the Guinness record for longest Slim Jim at 429 feet.

Catch-up edition (no run 9/9-9/16). The Fed hikes for the first time since 2023 -- 25bp to 3.75-4.00%, unanimous 12-0, another hike flagged before year-end -- stocks sell off Wednesday (S&P -0.4-0.5%, Dow -1.2%) then bounce Thursday as oil and yields ease; DXY reclaims 100 to a seven-week high. Drone strikes knock out ~700k bbl/day of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline for weeks (Sept 10-11), while Iran's Hormuz shipping-lane deal with Oman gets postponed at the last minute after being set for a Monday unveiling to Gulf nations -- Brent still near $104. Germany's AfD wins a record 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt but hits the "firewall" wall on actually governing. Oracle's AI-capex math turns ugly (-$23.7B free cash flow, $48B raised, stock -27% YTD) even as Nvidia's Hugging Face deal is signed and Anthropic's IPO window firms to late Sept/October; September's model-release pace hits 12 ships from 8 labs. A 220-lb ram named Rambo gets wedged in a concrete pipe in England, and a New Hampshire library forgives a $12,055 fine on a magazine 132 years overdue.

Houthi missiles and drones hit Saudi energy sites overnight (73 wounded, fires at the Jazan refinery), landing days after the US and Iran traded their largest tanker strikes yet and Iran declared a new "restricted zone" near Hormuz — Brent testing $100; Germany's AfD scores its strongest-ever state result in Saxony-Anhalt (43.8%), just short of a majority; an Amazon Air cargo jet overruns the runway at Miami International, killing five on the ground; Nepal-Tibet's flood toll climbs past 1,350; Novartis has its worst trading day on record (-10%) on a third drug-trial failure in a week; Nvidia's ~$13B Hugging Face deal is now signed; a rare daytime lunar occultation of Jupiter sweeps North America, and an Australian shepherd sets a Guinness record jumping across 56 human backs in 16 seconds.

August NFP blows out (+162K vs. +55K expected, unemployment flat 4.1%) but Fed Governor Waller counters same-morning with a rate-hike-patience signal, keeping the Fed debate genuinely two-sided; Iran and the US trade a second round of strikes in three days, oil grinding toward $95; Nvidia buys Hugging Face for ~$13B a day after OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Meta's Muse Spark both ship; a Himalayan flood catastrophe passes 1,280 dead; Germany's AfD stands on the brink of its first postwar state governorship (vote Sun 9/6); Milei escalates the Falklands dispute with an oil-sanctions threat; Saturn turns up a ten-sided twin to its famous northern hexagon, and a Tokyo customs bust nets 200 lizards stuffed into 22 pairs of socks.

No edition ran 8/28-9/2 -- this issue spans the week. US and Iran trade their largest exchange of strikes in over a month, ~18 dead in Iran including a wedding strike, Iranian retaliation hitting US assets in Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait and Erbil, oil testing $95 as the prior Hormuz de-escalation signal breaks; Xi Jinping makes his first Egypt visit in a decade amid the regional turmoil; Fed Chair Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole debut (Aug 28) floats rate hikes explicitly, resolved bearishly against last edition's open question; Broadcom's blowout Q3 (AI revenue +221% YoY) and Anthropic's approaching ~$2 trillion IPO S-1 extend the AI-capex trade, even as Texas freezes new data-center power hookups; equities stayed oddly calm through it all, closing green Wednesday with futures flat overnight; NASA's Roman Space Telescope launches cleanly atop a Falcon Heavy, and Pabst Blue Ribbon offers $20,000 to find its own missing beer.

Nvidia beat big after Wednesday's close -- $96.2B revenue (+106% YoY), $2.22 EPS, $108B fiscal Q3 guide, Huang calling AI "at its inflection point" -- stock +6-8% premarket, Nasdaq 100 futures +1%, Asia's chip complex green a third day; a catastrophic Nepal-Tibet border flash flood has killed at least 270 with ~400 still missing, one of the deadliest Himalayan disasters in years; Jackson Hole opens today ahead of Kevin Warsh's first keynote as Fed chair tomorrow morning, the week's real catalyst; Iran and Oman discuss a temporary Hormuz shipping-route framework, oil falls a third session; Salesforce and Okta both jump on strong prints while Dick's Sporting Goods cuts guidance; tonight brings the deepest partial lunar eclipse until 2028, and scientists recreate diamond rain from Neptune/Uranus interior conditions in a lab for the first time.

Nvidia reports fiscal Q2 tonight after the close, Street wanting ~$93-95B revenue and $2.09 EPS, with Asia's chip complex flipping green this morning after three straight sessions of selling into the print; China sentences Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison, closing out the corporate collapse that kicked off the property crisis; Canada's retaliatory tariffs on $20B of US goods take effect Sept 8 as Doug Ford calls for a truce while keeping "everything on the table"; the Supreme Court's mail-ballot ruling stays narrow, with USPS implementation still blocked; OpenAI discloses its unreleased Astra model may have crossed into "Critical" cyberattack capability, the first time it's applied that tier to its own system; a Greenland glacier calves an ice island the size of Manhattan; a New Zealand woman's heart stops in a parking lot and she still gets the ticket.

The Supreme Court hands Trump a preliminary 6-3 win letting his mail-ballot executive order proceed in 23 states without ruling on its legality; Ontario's Doug Ford calls Trump a "bully," "dictator" and "loser" as the 50% Canada tariffs bite into Ford, Stellantis and GM shares; Iran's Rezaei sharpens the Hormuz threat to "not a single drop of oil" while oil still doesn't reprice it as real; Asia's chip complex sells off again (Nikkei -0.8%) into Wednesday's Nvidia print, the week's real catalyst alongside Warsh's Friday Jackson Hole debut; Anthropic's public S-1 filing edges closer with investors already talking a $2 trillion listing; Musk says SpaceX will put Nvidia-powered AI data centers in orbit by late 2027; NASA clears the Roman Space Telescope for an August 30 launch; a Wisconsin cat sets the world record for most toes, 29 in total.

Bessent holds his promised "economic D-Day" press conference unveiling the toughest-ever Iran sanctions; Iran's security chief threatens to halt all Hormuz crude exports, but oil actually falls ~1.6% as the market waits rather than panics; Asia's memory/chip complex sells off overnight on an Alibaba AI share placement and a disappointing Samsung update, bleeding into positioning ahead of Wednesday's Nvidia print; Syria and Israel hold US-mediated talks in Jordan; Trump renews criticism of Canada as the tariff standoff grinds toward Sept. 8 retaliation; Anthropic's revenue lead over OpenAI widens further with an IPO filing still expected any day; archival Hubble images reveal the first stellar stream from a shredded star cluster ever found outside the Milky Way, offering a new way to map a distant galaxy's dark matter; a 26-year-old former car salesman quietly becomes a Belgian prince.

US-Canada trade talks collapse at the Saturday-midnight deadline -- 50% US tariffs on $20B of Canadian goods go live, Carney says Canada is "at war" economically and will retaliate September 8; Iran's sanctions standoff escalates as Tehran declares a shift to "offensive" military doctrine; Walmart beats on Q2 but posts its worst US same-store-sales growth in six years, keeping the "soft consumer" debate open into Kevin Warsh's debut Jackson Hole speech as Fed chair (Fri 8/28); Anthropic's revenue passes OpenAI's and it may file for an IPO that rivals SpaceX's by month-end; a Chinese humanoid robot breaks Usain Bolt's 100m world record at the Beijing robot games; SpaceX logs its 100th orbital launch of the year and crosses 11,000 Starlink satellites.

Trump declares "the most crushing economic operation ever" against Iran hours after a Russian missile-and-drone barrage kills at least 12 in Kyiv overnight; Trump pauses new 50% Canada tariffs three days on a last-minute deal with PM Carney; Anthropic's Q2 revenue ($11.6B) passes OpenAI's ($6.7B) for the first time, triggering an OpenAI C-suite exit and a new privacy pitch; TJX beats and raises, Target's traffic improves, Lowe's stays cautious -- Walmart has the last word before today's bell; Treasury doubles its long-bond buyback size, pulling yields off two-decade highs and letting the S&P snap a three-day losing streak; astronomers find S301, the fastest star ever measured, close enough to a black hole to feel its spin; "Squidpocalypse of '26" shuts a Rhode Island road for eight hours.

Iran's ceasefire lapses with no renewal and an unidentified projectile hits a vessel transiting Hormuz hours later, as Trump threatens Oman and calls for Iran's surrender; the global bond selloff hits a new gear (Bund 3.26%, US 30Y ~5.3%) and visibly cracks equities, Europe's worst day in a month; Home Depot beats and reaffirms guidance, the first data point in the week's retail-earnings run; Anthropic raises its own catastrophic-misalignment rating and discloses an unreleased "Model 2"; Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6; China's LandSpace lands a rocket booster, the world's first stainless-steel orbital-class recovery.

Ukraine's largest drone barrage of 2026 hits Moscow (822 intercepted, 600+ at the capital, 6-7 dead) as a NATO Spanish jet downs a Russian drone over Romania (the fourth 2026 incursion) and the US-Iran ceasefire lapses, reopening Hormuz risk after last week's third ADNOC tanker strike; Kushner presses Hamas and Netanyahu toward a real disarmament test; Home Depot reports under interim leadership (CEO on medical leave) as the week's first big-box test of weak retail-sales data, Target/Lowe's Wednesday and Walmart Thursday to follow; futures flip red (Nasdaq -1.1%) as oil and yields both rise together, with Eurozone 10Y yields hitting a 15-year high; Anthropic quietly raises its own misalignment risk rating; NASA's 48-hour-round-trip "Big Bang" maneuver buys Voyager 2 another year of life; a man in 1890s dress hand-runs a scoreboard at the Field of Dreams game.

Ukraine launches one of its largest drone barrages of the war on Moscow/southern Russia (6+ dead) while Hormuz sees a third ADNOC tanker strike in 48 hours and Israel's deadliest south-Lebanon strike since the June truce (11 dead) runs alongside it; Anthropic's Q2 revenue jumps 14x y/y to $11.5B the same week it halves Opus 5's price and the Riot Platforms $9.1-16.1B Texas lease is confirmed as its own deal; Stripe buys AI-router OpenRouter for $7B+, a 5x markup in three months; Home Depot/Target/Walmart report Tue-Thu, the real test of Friday's weak retail-sales/UMich prints; a black hole shredding a "super star" may have left something behind; two pygmy goats board a Portland city bus.

Israeli strikes kill 11 in south Lebanon, deadliest since June's ceasefire, as Iran rejects Trump's Hormuz "territory" claim and ship strikes continue; UMich sentiment confirmed at 51.0 vs. 54.5 expected, worst one-month drop in years, tied to Iran-war cost pass-through; a West Bank settler siege in Qusra eases after Huckabee calls it an "act of terror"; OpenAI tells EU users ads are coming to free ChatGPT; Riot Platforms discloses a 191MW, up-to-$16.1B Anthropic data-center lease in Texas; NASA's shoebox-sized Aspera telescope launches to map the invisible gas between galaxies; two pygmy goats named Billy the Kid and Billy the Goat board a Portland city bus.

Trump says he'll "pretty soon" declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory once Iran is defeated, hours after two ADNOC tankers are hit by drones transiting the strait -- Iran rejects the claim outright and says the blockade holds "until the US accepts defeat"; Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges, admitting in court to gunning down UnitedHealthcare's CEO; Wall Street closed at fresh records Thursday even as Friday's data landed ugly -- July retail sales -0.6% (worst in a year) and UMich sentiment craters to 51 from 55.2; Minnesota and Wisconsin primaries reshuffle both parties' midterm maps; Gemini 3.7 Flash, Qwen3.8-27B and GLM-5.3 all ship the same day; JWST finds three feeding supermassive black holes crammed into one galaxy just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang; an escaped pet python starts a fire at a Virginia middle school.

Colombia's earthquake death toll passes 265 with 4,100+ still missing, four days after the Chocó quake; Nigel Farage crushes a record 34-candidate Clacton by-election field with 63% of the vote, "Count Binface" a distant second; US Ambassador Huckabee calls a West Bank settler siege of a Palestinian-American family's home a "horrific act of terror"; Yemen's Houthis clash with government forces overnight, opening a second regional front alongside Hormuz; Applied Materials beats EPS, tops its own revenue guide, and still falls ~3.9% -- the Cisco "good number, bad stock" pattern repeats; PPI cools more than expected, pulling Sept rate-hike odds to ~32.5%; JWST finds a genuinely new class of object, a "black hole star" from 660 million years after the Big Bang; a Kentucky man assembles Mr. Potato Head blindfolded in a record 7.92 seconds.

Cisco confirms the AI-capex demand signal overnight (AI orders +4.5x to $9.3B, record revenue) but the stock falls anyway on margin-mix worries, with Applied Materials up next tonight; Iran flatly rejects Trump's "100% control" Hormuz claim and names four explicit preconditions for reopening the strait; Putin threatens to seize European ships if Europe keeps seizing Russia's "shadow fleet"; Karoline Leavitt steps down as White House press secretary; David Crowley pulls off a primary upset to become Wisconsin's presumptive Democratic nominee for governor; a shared-encryption-key flaw let researchers decode 315,000+ hidden AI reasoning blocks across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, recovering real passwords; an Arkansas football player wears a venomous cottonmouth in his helmet for an hour, unscathed.

July CPI lands in line (3.4% y/y) and calms three weeks of Fed-odds whiplash to ~55% for a September hold; CoreWeave (+20%) and Super Micro (+16%) beat hard overnight on AI-capex demand, with Cisco's AI-order guidance ($9B, up from $5B) due after tonight's close and Applied Materials tomorrow; Colombia's earthquake toll climbs past 250 with rescuers still unable to reach the epicenter; DRC's Ebola outbreak passes 2,000 deaths, the fastest-growing on record; Trump claims "100% control" of Hormuz while actual shipping traffic sits at 8 vessels/day vs. a 120 baseline; a trash-can-suited satirist polls at 20% against Farage in Thursday's Clacton by-election; OpenAI ships its first "offense-grade" cybersecurity model; the only total solar eclipse of 2026 sweeps Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain.

Trump hardens overnight — claims "100% control" of Hormuz, then demands Iran pay reparations for "50 years" of damage, a precondition Tehran says was never on the table; Turkey's parliament passes a conditional pardon for thousands of PKK fighters (468-88), the biggest step yet in Ankara's peace push; a Ukrainian drone strike kills 13 at a Russian refinery city; Trump signs an order pushing to split the MMR vaccine into three shots; almost three-quarters of England is now in drought; Intel launches its first stock sale since 1971 ($15B) to fund AI-capex; markets sit quiet ahead of Wednesday's CPI; Alabama deputies lasso a runaway bull off the highway.

The Fed narrative whipsaws a third time: hike odds that topped 60% have flipped back to 60%+ odds of a simple hold after Friday's soft jobs data, with Wednesday's CPI now decisive; Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan sign a NATO-style mutual-defense pact in Mecca while Trump tells Axios he's "low-keying it" on Iran, betting on economic pressure over new strikes; Meta hit with a first-of-its-kind $567M "public nuisance" verdict ($942M total) in New Mexico; UEFA's boycott survives Infantino's climbdown; oil extends its gain as Hormuz hopes fade again, gold rips to $4,342; a New Jersey meteorite preserves amino acids from the early solar system, and CT scans clear the dodo's reputation as evolution's punchline.

The Fed narrative flips hard: three weeks after a shock jobs miss seemed to cement a September cut, CME odds now favor a Sept 16 hike on sticky inflation tied to the Iran energy shock; Iran and Oman say they've agreed on a Hormuz shipping route but the joint statement is still unsigned; a 14-year-old's Thailand school shooting kills seven; Meta ordered to pay $942M total in a landmark New Mexico child-safety case; UEFA's boycott holds past Infantino's apology; SpaceX's second lockup tranche looms Wednesday; a total solar eclipse lands on the same day as the Perseid peak, Aug 12; capybaras visit Brazil's state legislature.

July payrolls fall 23K (vs. +80K est., -103K in revisions), unemployment eases to 4.1% only on falling participation — stocks rally hard Friday on rate-cut hopes; Iran's parliament advances a bill to ban US/Israeli ships from Hormuz even as the Oman corridor deal stays stuck at "in principle"; SanDisk becomes the fourth AI-storage name to beat and sell off (-9%) while Atlassian (+35%) and Twilio (+28%) get bought hard on their own AI-linked beats; UEFA's boycott survives Infantino's apology; NASA astronauts wrap a 6.5-hour spacewalk; a 162-year-old shipwrecked Guinness may get recreated from surviving yeast.

A 14-year-old kills six and wounds 20+ in a Thailand school shooting; Congo's Ebola outbreak becomes the country's largest ever (3,973 cases, 1,801 dead); Western Digital becomes the third AI-storage name this week to beat and still sell off (-13%, after AMD and SanDisk), while AppLovin (-19%), HubSpot (-24%) and Honeywell Aerospace (-21%) take real guidance-cut hits; Iran and Oman say they've agreed "in principle" on a Hormuz shipping framework as oil eases and gold nears $4,400; Nonfarm Payrolls at 8:30 ET is the last data point before the Sept 16 FOMC; a dormant supermassive black hole is found 30,000 light-years from its galaxy's core, the farthest-flung one ever spotted.

Russia hits Kyiv overnight killing 17 with zero missiles intercepted, as Trump says a Hormuz-reopening deal could land "soon"; SanDisk repeats AMD's exact beat-but-sell-off pattern (-8% premarket) while Nvidia jumps 4% on a new SpaceX "Starmind" exclusive-chip-supplier deal; SpaceX's record $123B insider lockup starts unlocking today; AstraZeneca-Bristol Myers merger talks flatly denied; Paramount-WBD antitrust trial set for March 2, 2027; New Horizons finds the first evidence of liquid nitrogen actively flowing on Pluto's surface.

AMD beats on every headline number (record $11.54B revenue, raised Q3 guide) and still falls 8% after hours -- the AI-capex trade now punishes "great but not perfect"; Trump says fuller Iran/Hormuz deal details land "within 48 hours" as Tehran keeps denying direct talks; Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan's ~$65M Democratic Senate primary over Haley Stevens; Spokane arson suspect charged in the Old Trails Fire; DRC Ebola toll passes 1,700, now the country's worst outbreak ever; a discarded SpaceX rocket stage strikes the Moon at 5,400 mph.

Sunday's Iran "framework" frays in public — Trump calls Iran "unbelievably duplicitous," threatens "decapitation" over a "last chance," Iran denies direct talks; AstraZeneca-Bristol Myers Squibb confirmed in early $400B merger talks (AZN -7.8%, BMY +3.8%); AMD reports after today's close as the next AI-capex test, a day after Palantir's blowout Q2 (+16% premarket) and Amazon's first close above $3T; Spain's 40C heatwave hits the still-uncontained Castellon fire; asteroid Nysa resolved as the solar system's first three-headed "trilobate" body, complete with its own tiny moon.

Trump calls off the Camp David Iran strike, citing a Hormuz-reopening framework -- oil drops ~$5 to $79.60 as talks resume; US and Japan run their first joint yen intervention since 2011 after the yen hit a 40-year low, snapping it back to ~155-157 and hitting Tokyo exporters (Nikkei -1.4%); Spokane-area wildfires destroy ~700 structures and force 65,000 evacuations; Idaho In-N-Out shooter identified, dead by suicide; "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" scores the second-biggest opening weekend ever; AMD reports Tuesday as the next AI-capex test with Nvidia already 14.8% off its highs.

Ceuta migrant-crisis death toll hits 67 after ~60,000 cross Spain's border fence in a day; Camp David's Iran energy-strike plan hardens into an operational timeline (still unconfirmed) as Iran names US regional energy assets as a retaliation target for the first time; FIFA scraps its $20B World Cup private-equity plan after a unified federation revolt; Kumamoto's quake toll holds at 36; an AI-assisted counterexample disproves the 87-year-old Jacobian Conjecture above two dimensions; quiet futures (NQ -0.4%, ES -0.2%) into Monday's ISM print and Tuesday's AMD/Spotify earnings.

Kumamoto's quake toll rises to 36 as survivors battle heat and water shortages; Camp David talks weigh joint US-Israel strikes on Iranian energy sites through the weekend after the quietest 24 hours of the war in over a week; Hamas signs a Gaza disarmament document but makes it conditional on Israel withdrawing first; Paramount agrees to delay its $111B Warner deal until after an antitrust trial; Europe's wildfire lines hold, with the real heatwave test now dated Tuesday not this weekend; futures drift softer (-0.2/-0.4%) into a week topped by AMD earnings and Friday's jobs report.

Big Tech's earnings week ends split -- Microsoft, Amazon and Apple beat and drive the Nasdaq +2.78%, Meta's ~9% post-earnings slide still the clearest "no" on AI capex; Iran strikes Kuwait (1 killed) and Jordan intercepts five more missiles as the retaliation cycle widens; Trump announces an unconfirmed Hamas-disarm/Gaza-withdrawal framework; Kumamoto's quake toll hits 35; UEFA's 55 members vote to boycott the World Cup over FIFA's private-equity stake sale; a new 40C heatwave threatens Europe's holding wildfire lines.

Iran fires a second missile wave at a U.S. base in Jordan, intercepted again, and the U.S. strikes back at Iranian targets and Iraq militias; Kumamoto's quake toll climbs to 34 with heat complicating the search; the Fed held at 3.50-3.75% (3 dissents) and Warsh ran a short presser; Microsoft beats and pops 2%, Meta misses and falls 10% on higher spending guidance, leaving Apple and Amazon's after-close reports today as the last word on Big Tech AI capex; Europe's wildfires show real containment progress but a new heatwave threatens flare-ups.

Iran fires ballistic missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan hours after Trump calls his first Netanyahu meeting since the war began "excellent" -- all intercepted, oil jumps 4.4%; a 7.1 earthquake devastates Kyushu, Japan with a mall collapse and at least one dead; FOMC decision + Warsh presser at 2/2:30pm ET collide with MSFT/META earnings after the close, the real verdict on AI capex after last night's Asia chip-equipment rout.

China's overnight lithography breakthrough sinks ASML 8.3% and touches off Asia's broadest chip rout in months (Kospi -10.8% with a circuit breaker, Nikkei -3.6%) hours before the FOMC's two-day meeting opens; Netanyahu meets Trump at the White House for the first time since the Iran war began, with Hormuz mediation hanging on the outcome; Microsoft/Meta report Wednesday (same day as the Fed decision), Apple/Amazon Thursday — the real verdict on AI capex.

A Berlin Pride van-and-machete attack kills one and injures 29 (attacker, an ISIS-linked German national, shot dead by police); Netanyahu is in Washington as the Iran war hits a second night without a US strike, with a "massive attack" still reportedly on the table; oil craters ~5% and China's CXMT chipmaker rockets +466% on its Shanghai debut to become China's most valuable listed company, handing the AI-capex bulls a comeback argument ahead of a loaded week: FOMC decision Wednesday, Microsoft/Meta/Apple/Amazon earnings Wednesday-Thursday.

Iran war sees its first day without a new US strike in two weeks, but Netanyahu is in Washington and Trump is weighing a "massive attack"; Europe's wildfires force 267,000+ from their homes across France and Spain; OpenAI quietly joins Nvidia's open-weight AI coalition, leaving Anthropic the industry's most visible holdout, ahead of a loaded week: FOMC decision Wednesday plus Microsoft/Meta/Apple/Amazon earnings all testing the AI-capex trade.

Wall Street claws back part of Thursday's AI-capex scare (Dow +0.46%, Nasdaq still -0.64%, -2% on the week) as oil retreats from its brief run above $100; Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta publicly split from OpenAI and Anthropic, urging Washington to protect open-weight AI after Kimi K3; Iran shuttle diplomacy collapses over who controls Hormuz, Netanyahu in Washington, Trump weighing a "massive attack"; Starship's 13th test flight finally flies clean — satellite deploy, laser link, softest splashdown yet.

Iran's war widens sharply — Houthis hit two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, Trump threatens to strike Tehran directly, oil tops $100/barrel for the first time since May; Intel's blowout Q2 beat (revenue +25%, AI/data-center +59%) argues the AI-capex trade isn't broken, a day after Alphabet and Tesla sent the Nasdaq to its worst close in a month; a judge effectively freezes Paramount's $110B Warner Bros. Discovery takeover.

Alphabet beats but sells off on a $205B capex hike and its first-ever negative free cash flow quarter; Tesla beats on revenue but misses badly on margin, leaving Intel's report tonight as the real tiebreaker; Iran's war keeps widening (Kuwait/Jordan strikes hold, Brent $94, Pakistan asked to broker a second ceasefire); France bans social media for under-15s; Burnham's UK cabinet is set; a Starship launch attempt slips for the third time.

Iran's war widens onto Kuwaiti and Jordanian soil directly and two more tankers are struck near Hormuz, sending Brent back above $92; a judge rules today on the Paramount-WBD TRO the same day EU regulators face their own clearance deadline; Alphabet and Tesla report tonight (Intel Thursday) as the market's real test of the AI-capex trade, hours after Google shipped three new Gemini models but not its overdue 3.5 Pro flagship; astronomers confirm the first atmosphere on a rocky habitable-zone world.

Keir Starmer resigns; Andy Burnham becomes the UK's seventh PM in a decade; US-Iran strikes hit a tenth night and a tanker is actually struck transiting Hormuz, yet oil eases on mediation-effort reports and Asia/Europe both bounce off last week's AI-led selloff; Grok 4.5, GPT-5.6 Luna and Meta's first paid closed model ignite an inference price war ahead of Wednesday's make-or-break Alphabet/Tesla earnings (Intel Thursday) and Wednesday's Paramount-WBD TRO ruling.

US strikes Iran a ninth straight night and Tehran hits back, yet oil settles slightly below Friday and NQ/ES firm 0.5-0.9% — the escalation isn't (yet) driving the tape; Nikkei is dark for Marine Day so Friday's -4.0% chip correction gets no Monday retest, and a revised check of Friday's Stoxx 600 close (-0.4%, not the +0.2% reported Sunday) reads less contained; Shanghai's WAIC closes with a 29-country AI cooperation body, Huawei unveils a chip-linking SuperPoD, and the EU orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants.

Iran hits five Gulf states in one night (Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, Oman), the war's widest single-night strike yet, and Hormuz transit falls to a five-week low; Nikkei's Friday close is officially a correction (-4.03%, -11.4% off its June record) while Europe shrugged it off (Stoxx 600 +0.2%); GPT-5.6, Claude Sonnet 5 and China's frontier-class Kimi K3 all land the same week as Gemini 3.5 Pro slips again; Texas Hill Country floods return almost exactly a year after 2025's disaster.

Iran fires on Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain directly for the first time, grounding Kuwaiti flights and hitting a power plant; a 7.4 quake off Chiapas and catastrophic Texas Hill Country floods add two more disaster threads; Friday's AI-trade unwind (Nikkei in correction, Philly Semi -11%) and Apple's suit against OpenAI carry into Monday; Skyroot's Vikram-1 makes India a private-orbital nation.

The AI trade cracks in real time — Philly Semi -11% this week, Nikkei in correction (-4.0%), QQQ -1.4% intraday — even as TSMC posts a blowout quarter and Moonshot's cheap open-weight Kimi K3 rattles the room; Iran-US war spreads to Qatar and Syria on a sixth-plus day; Netflix misses on guidance despite an EPS beat.

Iran hits two UAE supertankers overnight (1 killed) and oil spikes toward $81 as the Hormuz blockade gets tested from both directions; June CPI cools sharply to 3.5% y/y ahead of Fed Chair Warsh's Senate testimony; Kospi rips 6.2% as Samsung/SK Hynix fully reverse Monday's crash, setting up Thursday's TSMC print as the real AI-capex tie-breaker.

US reinstates a Hormuz naval blockade and a 20% cargo toll, sending Brent up as much as 9.5% intraday — the war's sharpest oil move yet — hours before June CPI and new Fed Chair Warsh's first-ever Hill testimony; Kospi claws back a third of Monday's crash; a second fatal ICE shooting in five days hits Biddeford, Maine.

A third night of US strikes on Iran meets a genuine Kospi "Black Monday" (-8.95% on Samsung/SK Hynix); Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71; Nasdaq futures gap down twice as hard as S&P futures overnight, two days before June CPI and Fed Chair Warsh's first Hill testimony.

A third night of US strikes on Iran follows an IRGC attack on a tanker in Hormuz; Sen. Lindsey Graham dies suddenly at 71; Apple sues OpenAI over trade-secret theft; a loaded week ahead (CPI, new Fed chair's first testimony, bank earnings) lands with no cash session tonight to price in the weekend's Iran news first.

The Iran war widens again to a second day of Gulf-base strikes and a Trump "thousands of missiles" threat; Venezuela's quake toll passes 4,000 and Cuba suffers its fourth blackout of 2026; equities close the week at highs on the AI-launch cluster and SK Hynix's record $26.5B Nasdaq debut.

US strikes Iran for a second straight day as Iran hits Gulf-state bases; three frontier AI labs (GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Meta Muse Spark 1.1) ship the same day; semis violently reverse Wednesday's Samsung-triggered rout.

Trump declares the Iran ceasefire "over" from NATO's Ankara summit, new strikes follow, but the tape shrugs it off; Khamenei's Mashhad burial closes the funeral week; chip-sector damage from Samsung's earnings keeps bleeding into Thursday as Asia rebounds hard.

US strikes 80+ Iran targets after Hormuz shipping attacks, sanctions reimposed; NATO's Ankara summit closes with Turkey sanctions lifted; QQQ -1.5% pre-market into 2PM's first Warsh-era FOMC minutes.

NATO's Ankara summit opens as Kyiv suffers its deadliest night in weeks (22 killed); Hamas dissolves its Gaza government; QQQ gives back ~1% as Monday's chip-led Dow-53K record unwinds ahead of Wednesday's FOMC minutes.

China test-fires a submarine ballistic missile in the South Pacific a day before Trump lands in Ankara for NATO; Iran's funeral procession draws 15-20M in Tehran; QQQ bounces +1.3% on a chip rebound.

Iran's funeral week rolls toward Thursday's Mashhad burial; Anthropic locks gigawatt compute with Google & Broadcom and reportedly passes OpenAI on revenue; tape closed soft on a chip sell-off.

Iran readies Khamenei's funeral amid Hormuz fee talk; weak June payrolls (+57K) revive Fed hike chatter; Claude Sonnet 5 and "AI capex goes physical."

A global tech/semis unwind hits Korea & Japan ahead of the moved-up jobs print; Claude Sonnet 5 + Fable 5 ship; MGX closes a $49B AI fund; oil at four-month lows on Iran diplomacy.