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🇦🇪🇮🇷🇪🇺 UAE presidential adviser Gargash warns Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz would set a dangerous global precedent. - Tells Europe the Strait is not a distant problem but directly tied to their energy and trade security - Says the U.S. has become "more central" in every Gulf country's calculations since the war began - Warns any change to the Strait's status would have severe global repercussions Source: Al Jazeera

BREAKING: 🇯🇵 Japan's core inflation just dropped to 1.4%, below the expected 1.7%. The lowest level in over 4 years.

🇺🇸 The U.S. government is now a direct shareholder in quantum computing. The Trump administration is taking $2 billion in equity stakes across nine quantum companies, including a new IBM venture. The explicit goal: counter China's quantum advancement before it becomes a national security problem. This is significant. Governments don't take equity positions in speculative tech. They do it when the technology is too important to lose. Quantum computing breaks current encryption standards, accelerates drug discovery, and rewrites financial modeling at a level classical computers can't touch. Whoever leads this race sets the rules. Washington just decided it's not leaving that to the private sector alone. Source: Reuters