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Michael Saylor's Strategy has added another three thousand two hundred seventy three bitcoin to its already massive pile, bringing its total holdings to eight hundred eighteen thousand three hundred thirty four coins. The company has spent nearly sixty two billion dollars building that position, and its stated goal of one million bitcoin is no longer an abstraction — it's a trajectory.
Shifting to the geopolitical front, China has ordered Meta to unwind its two billion dollar acquisition of AI agent startup Manus, following a months-long regulatory probe. The move is a significant blow to Mark Zuckerberg's ambitions in the AI agents space and signals that Beijing remains a serious variable in how American tech companies expand globally.
And the State Department is sharpening its language around AI competition with China, now accusing companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of what it calls extraction and distillation — essentially using American AI models as raw material to build competing systems. It's a framing shift that could have real consequences for export controls and diplomatic pressure ahead.
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