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Mojtaba Khamenei becomes Iran’s Supreme Leader
Humanoid robot cleans living room
Trump asks: Vance or Rubio in 2028?
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— Josh
MARKETS
The Surprising Truth About What Khamenei Thought About His Son Becoming Supreme Leader
Markets Roundup

🏦 ECONOMY
⭐ Editor’s Pick: Trump Says Iran War Will End "Very Soon" (AX)
Crude oil prices plunged as much as 10% Tuesday, with Brent sliding around 8% to $91 a barrel and U.S. crude dropping 8.1% to about $87. (CNBC)
Incoming DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin hinted at a crackdown on China's Belt and Road Initiative. (BN)
Trump’s Small Business Administration is banning foreign nationals from securing federal dollars via small business loan programs. (FOX)
Fed pick Kevin Warsh will meet with Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who continues to block confirmation proceedings. (CNBC)
The U.S. reversed a five-year decline in economic freedom, posting its largest annual score increase in more than two decades, according to an index. (FBN)

🏢 INDUSTRY
⭐ Editor’s Pick: Top Oil Company Plans to Flee Blue State for Red State (WSJ)
Live Nation Entertainment reached a tentative settlement with the Justice Department in its antitrust lawsuit. (POL)
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square filed to go public on the NYSE. (CNBC)
A Manhattan federal jury convicted prominent luxury real-estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander on all counts of sex trafficking. (RTS)
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepped down from the left-wing social media platform. (WIR)
GE Aerospace will invest another $1 billion in U.S. manufacturing, supporting facilities and suppliers across 17 states. (FBN)

💰 PERSONAL FINANCE
⭐ Editor’s Pick: The Best Money Advice of All Time (KIP)
Here's how the new tax rules can get you a bigger refund in 2026. (MW)
The Motley Fool, after evaluating more than 100 cash-back credit cards, named its top pick for March 2026. (MF)
Yahoo Finance listed the cheapest car insurance plans for good drivers. (YF)

📈 HOT STOCK TIPS
⭐ Editor’s Pick: Why This Defense Stock You’ve Never Heard Of Is a Buy (WS)
Morningstar identified five new 5-star rated U.S.-listed stocks this week as significantly undervalued. (MS)
Insider Monkey highlighted the 10 most shorted biotech stocks with at least 15% upside potential per analyst consensus. (IM)
MarketBeat listed 3 dividend growth stocks quietly raising payouts. (MB)

🌕 CRYPTO
⭐ Editor’s Pick: Banks Weigh Nuclear Option in War Against Crypto Reform (TG)
Nasdaq partnered with Kraken to develop a plan to enable 24/7 tokenized stock trading. (WSJ)
Prosecutors seek a retrial for Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm on hung-jury charges of money-laundering and sanctions conspiracies. (CT)
Tom Lee's BitMine Immersion accelerated its Ethereum accumulation with a $120 million purchase, boosting holdings to more than $9 billion in ETH. (DLN)
TECH
WATCH: Figure AI’s Humanoid Robot Cleans Living Room in Amazing Demonstration
Tech Roundup

🧠 AI
⭐ Editor’s Pick: These Diseases Were Incurable. Now AI is Unlocking New Treatments. (BBC)
Anthropic sued to block the Pentagon from designating it a supply chain risk. (RTS)
The Trump White House is preparing an executive order to direct federal agencies to remove Anthropic's AI systems. (AX)
Nvidia is planning to launch an open-source AI agent platform called NemoClaw ahead of its annual developer conference next week. (WIR)
OpenAI will acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built. (TC)

🤖 ROBOTS & DRONES
⭐ Editor’s Pick: The Lost Drone That Changed the Future of War (TOI)
How "dark factories," powered by robots and requiring essentially no workers, are set to upend China. (BBG)
Nvidia and ABB Robotics announced a partnership to develop AI-enabled autonomous industrial robots. (RAN)
Georgia Tech students build moon-like lab to test robots for future missions. (CBS)

🤝 VENTURE CAPITAL
⭐ Editor’s Pick: Yann LeCun's AI Startup Raises Europe's Largest-ever Seed Round (TNW)
Spark Capital, the first venture firm to back Anthropic in 2023, is raising roughly $3 billion for its latest funds. (TI)
AI cybersecurity startup Armadin, founded by Mandiant creator Kevin Mandia, raised approximately $190 million in a round led by Accel. (CNBC)
Eridu, an AI networking equipment startup, emerged from stealth with a $200 million Series A round led by Socratic and John Doerr. (TC)
Freedom Roundup

🏛️ POLICY & CULTURE
⭐ Editor’s Pick: Trump Kicks War Into High Gear Against Thomas Massie (NYP)
Trump’s under-the-radar plan to crack down on DEI. (POL)
Seniors paid billions in extra Medicare Part B premiums due to alleged overpayments to private Medicare Advantage insurers. (WSJ)
A New York Senate Bill, called the most invasive U.S. state-level age-verification proposal to date, would require checks at the device level. (RTN)
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