Data Story
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Jul- 2026 -14 JulyTech & AI
South Korea’s free AI for everyone runs on American chips it cannot replace
The government opened bidding July 13 for a universal chatbot serving 52 million residents, mandating domestic models for 80% of queries—but every GPU in the pilot is Nvidia hardware, exposing…
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14 JulyCapital
Trump’s 20% Hormuz toll just rewrote the rules of global oil
Brent crude surged 8% above $82 per barrel as the US blockade restarts July 14, but the IMO says the levy has no legal basis, leaving shipowners and insurers navigating…
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14 JulyCapital
Iran just weaponized the Strait of Hormuz into a toll booth
Only 14 commercial vessels crossed on July 13 after the GFS Galaxy attack, while freight rates on Middle East lanes surged 250%, exceeding pandemic records and signaling Tehran may be…
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13 JulyCapital
Oil jumps $8 as US-Iran strikes shatter the Hormuz ceasefire
Brent crude hit $78.82 on Monday, the highest in three weeks, as the weekend's military escalation threatens to reverse the inflation progress the Federal Reserve chair must defend to Congress…
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13 JulyPower
US and Iran’s Hormuz gambit collapses into regional warfare
After reciprocal strikes across the Gulf widened the conflict to five allied states, Brent crude jumped to $78.86 a barrel, signaling traders are pricing a sustained disruption rather than a…
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11 JulyCapital
Brent crude above $78 as Hormuz warzone costs outlast the ceasefire
Military escalation between the US and Iran has triggered a warzone designation that doubles mariner pay and raises insurance premiums on every barrel transiting the Strait, a cost structure that…
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10 JulyCapital
Asian chip stocks ignore oil surge as SK Hynix listing drowns out Hormuz risk
SK Hynix's US$26.5 billion Nasdaq offering sent South Korean and Japanese semiconductor shares up 2-3% on July 10, even as Brent crude climbed 5% weekly on escalating US-Iran tensions near…
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9 JulyTech & AI
AI hiring tools systematically reject Black and Asian applicants, Stanford finds
A Stanford study of 4 million job applications reveals that game-based assessments from a single vendor rejected candidates identically across employers, amplifying bias through what researchers call algorithmic monoculture.
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9 JulyCapital
Japan’s bond yield hits 27-year high as Gulf tensions push rates up
The 10-year JGB yield reached 2.880%, its highest since 1996, as renewed Strait of Hormuz hostilities sent Brent crude above $80 and forced markets to price in additional Federal Reserve…
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9 JulyCapital
Iran sanctions push Bitcoin below $61,500, erasing $310M in leveraged bets
Brent crude surged past $80 a barrel after the Trump administration ended waivers on Iranian oil exports, triggering a flight from risk assets as the Federal Reserve faces renewed inflation…
