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Iran & Energy

The ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is holding, but barely, and with a deadline looming that no one seems entirely sure how to meet (The Hill). Pakistan has been quietly pushing itself into the mediator role, running back-channel communications between Washington and Tehran through what's being called the Islamabad Process (Foreign Policy), which is either a useful diplomatic channel or a sign that the official talks are stalled enough to require an intermediary. On the ground in Iran, the BBC reports a population that is cautiously skeptical, aware that a formal nuclear deal has been promised and abandoned before (BBC News).

Markets & Tech

A federal jury found Live Nation-Ticketmaster guilty of running an illegal monopoly and overcharging fans, a verdict that's been a long time coming (Ars Technica). The integration across the live entertainment supply chain is so deep that breaking it up will be complicated, not just legally but practically (NYT).

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HISTORICAL

A Letter to the Junior Analyst Who Built the First Leveraged Buyout Model in Lotus 1-2-3

Somewhere around 1984, in a building that was probably at 9 West 57th Street, you sat in front of a green-phosphor monitor and built a spreadsheet that priced the future...

EXPLANATORY

The Fertilizer Chain: How a 21-Mile Strait Holds the World's Food Supply Hostage

The Strait of Hormuz is a chokepoint for oil. Everyone knows that. What fewer people track is that it's also a chokepoint for the raw materials that feed a third of the planet...

NARRATIVE

The Governance Engineer: How Dario Amodei Built a Safety-First AI Lab

The question facing Anthropic's CEO isn't whether AI safety matters. It's what you do when the safety principles you built the company around start constraining the commercial decisions that keep it alive...

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