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A small UK power plant was forced offline following a cyberattack attributed to Iran, raising fresh concerns about critical infrastructure vulnerability across the energy sector. The British government moved quickly to contain the narrative, insisting there was no systemic risk to national energy supply, and briefed sector CEOs directly with protective guidance.
Turning to artificial intelligence, a developer named Guillaume Meyer built an open-source tool capable of stripping AI-generated watermarks, and it went viral almost immediately after Anthropic announced its own watermarking initiative. Meyer argues that watermarks create more problems than they solve, though he stops short of opposing content attribution entirely — a distinction that will matter enormously to regulators and rights holders watching this space closely.
And on the equity side, Nvidia is back in focus ahead of its second quarter earnings, with analysts predicting the company could breach a six trillion dollar market capitalization before two thousand twenty six is out. The results due this week are expected to once again exceed consensus estimates, driven by relentless enterprise and sovereign demand for AI compute infrastructure — a story that shows no sign of losing momentum.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
