Issue 2026-03-10
Stories
- Assembly Installs Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s Supreme Leader, Trump Floats Assassination Option
- Brent Crude Plunges After Trump Signals Imminent End to Iran War
- Putin–Trump Hour-Long Call Triggers Oil Price Slide and Floats Iran-Ukraine Swap
- G7 Shelves Immediate Strategic Oil Release After Brent Spikes to $120
- Hormuz Blockade Forces Gulf Shut-ins, Sends Brent Back Above $100
- Nscale’s $2 B Series C Turbo-charges AI Data-Center Arms Race
- Anthropic Files Dual Lawsuits to Overturn Pentagon “Supply Chain Risk” Blacklist
- Microsoft Debuts Work IQ and $99 Microsoft 365 E7, Extending Copilot’s Agentic Reach
At a Glance
- On 8–9 Mar 2026 Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Experts elevated 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei—son of the slain Ayatollah...
- Within hours of President Trump claiming the 11-day U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran was “very complete,” Brent cru...
- On 9 March 2026, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held their first phone call of the year—lasting about an hour—in whi...
- On 9 March 2026, G7 finance ministers, after an emergency call on the Iran-U.S./Israel war, opted to wait on tapping...
- On 8 March 2026, the near-total closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the US-Israeli war with Iran compelled Iraq, Kuw...
- London-based Nscale closed a record-setting $2 billion Series C that catapulted its valuation to $14.6 billion and si...