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Sugar markets are under pressure today, with New York world sugar sliding to a one-month low and London white sugar hitting a five-week trough. The driver is straightforward — an improved global supply outlook is undercutting the bull case, and prices are extending losses for a second consecutive session this week.
Shifting to tech and AI infrastructure, Elon Musk is walking back some of the enthusiasm around SpaceX's compute deal with Anthropic. While SpaceX's S-one filing suggested the agreement could generate up to forty billion dollars through May of two thousand twenty nine, Musk clarified on X that the arrangement is effectively a one-hundred-eighty-day lease, with a termination clause that gives SpaceX a rapid exit if its own compute needs take priority. That caveat significantly reframes the headline number.
And in media, sixty minutes is entering a new chapter. CBS has named Nick Bilton, a former New York Times technology columnist and documentarian, as the show's new executive producer. His arrival follows the departure of correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi and comes amid what the network is framing as a broader editorial disruption for the long-running newsmagazine. Bilton has already sent an introductory memo to staff.
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