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A World Not on Holiday

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The first morning of July 2026 offered little respite: a ship aground in the Strait of Hormuz, Ukrainian drones striking a Russian satellite hub near Moscow for the second time in a week, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu warning of a third strike on Iran, and the CIA director comparing artificial intelligence to nuclear weapons — all before American markets opened.

Domestic politics matched the international turbulence. The Supreme Court struck down Trump's birthright citizenship order 6-3, a DSA-backed challenger ended the 30-year career of a 15-term Denver congresswoman, and a NYT/Siena poll showed the Texas Senate race statistically tied. Financial markets entered the second half of the year rattled, with Fitch formally flagging 63 consecutive months of U.S. inflation overshooting the Federal Reserve's 2% target.

In technology, OpenAI reportedly halved its inference costs through software optimization alone, Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5, and Google released two new generative AI models in a single day — developments unfolding the same week the CIA announced a sweeping partnership with Amazon Web Services to accelerate AI adoption across the intelligence community.

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