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The relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley continues to evolve in real time. President Trump sat down for dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a notable thaw given Trump's earlier public criticism of the company and an ongoing legal dispute stemming from a Pentagon blacklisting. It signals that AI access to the White House may matter more than prior friction.
Shifting to capital markets, the Financial Times is out with a sharp read on how AI hyperscalers are fundamentally reshaping debt structures. The sheer scale of infrastructure spending — data centers, power, chips — is forcing both corporations and sovereign borrowers to rethink traditional financing models. We are watching a capital cycle unlike anything since the buildout of the early internet.
And on the regulatory front, post-Enron audit protections are being quietly unwound. Regulators are moving to roll back key requirements imposed under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the landmark two thousand two law passed after a wave of corporate accounting scandals. Critics warn that loosening these standards reduces transparency precisely when markets are pricing in elevated risk across multiple sectors.
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