Toby Howell

This is just another attempt at that.

So it sounds crazy on the surface to blockade a blockade.

But again, this is how you return leverage to your side is by choking off their exports.

Yeah, Trump conceded that energy prices may not fall soon and may be higher as we roll into midterm elections.

He's trying to suggest that the economic pain right now is worth it in the long run.

We are seeing just the economics of this blockade and now double blockade filter through the American economy.

We've seen EV interest pick back up.

This has been a side effect.

Edmunds, which is a car shopping platform, said that we're seeing interest rise to nearly what it was before the tax incentives ended last year.

Used EV sales jumped 12% in the first quarter, according to Cox Automotive.

So basically, people are looking at their gas bills and looking at the pump and saying, actually, it does make sense to transition to electric vehicles because of just how elevated gas prices are.

The mythos around Anthropic's new model, Mythos, is only growing.

According to a report, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Fed Chair Jerome Powell summoned major bank CEOs to Washington last week to discuss the model that has been compared to a dangerous cyber weapon.

Anthropic has held back on releasing Mythos to the public, which it says can kneecap much of the modern web

by finding undiscovered vulnerabilities at an unprecedented rate.

The cybersecurity chops of Mythos affects banks, so the government wanted to make sure Wall Street is aware of the possible risks.

So they called the meeting to ensure everyone is adopting the proper precautions to defend their systems, according to Bloomberg.

Remember, Anthropic distributed Mythos only 40 or so organizations ahead of a public release, forming a sort of cybersecurity brain trust called Project Glasswing.

The company also briefed government officials on its capabilities before release.

The goal is to let big enterprises get ahead of bad actors who could use the new model to penetrate secure software.