🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: US officials say deal struck to cut China trade deficit, details on Monday, via Reuters…
SHOT, via WSJ: Bessent Says U.S.-China Trade Talks Were ‘Productive’.
CHASER, via WSJ: How Tariffs Are Crushing Small Businesses: ‘Nobody in Power Seems to Care’. “Owners laying off staff and tapping personal savings, hoping to hold out until a trade deal with China.”
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FUTURES
🌐 WALL STREET WAITS: U.S.-CHINA TRADE DEAL DETAILS COMING MONDAY. The White House says it struck a trade deal with China over the weekend—but no terms have been released. A full briefing is set for Monday morning, and markets are on edge.
—> WHAT WE KNOW: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called the Geneva talks “productive” and said they yielded “a great deal.” U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer confirmed a deal was reached but offered no specifics.
—> THE CONTEXT: Trump’s April 2 tariff escalation rattled the global economy. This deal—if it truly de-escalates—could shift the outlook fast.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: Wall Street is watching Monday’s briefing closely. With no details yet, this could be relief—or another head fake.
Source: CNBC.
CRYPTO
BITCOIN BACK ABOVE $100K… WSJ: Bitcoin Hits $100,000 for First Time Since February… CoinTelegraph: Bitcoin price reclaims $100K for first time since February…
CRYPTO
🪙 VIRGINIA MAN SENTENCED FOR SENDING CRYPTO TO ISIS. A Virginia man faces up to 30 years in prison for converting $185K into crypto and funneling it to female ISIS members in Syria, per the DOJ.
—> THE DETAILS: Mohammed Chhipa, a naturalized U.S. citizen, raised funds online and by hand, then moved the money via Turkey using crypto. He was convicted in December on five terror-related counts.
—> BIGGER PICTURE: This is the latest federal case linking crypto to terror financing, as the U.S. continues to crack down.
Source: The National
SPACE
🛰️ U.S. SATELLITE COPS TO POLICE THE FINAL FRONTIER. Chinese stalker sats. Russian lurkers. The U.S. is fighting back with Jackal—a new fleet of fast-moving spacecraft built to chase down threats and protect America’s orbital backyard.
—> THE MISSION: Designed by ex–Space Force officers, Jackal is equipped with thrusters, heat sensors, and cameras to shadow suspicious satellites, inspect them up close, and keep them away from our most sensitive space tech.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: The satellites powering your GPS, internet, military comms, and missile defense? They’re under constant threat of eavesdropping or interference. Jackal makes sure Xi and Putin can’t get close enough to listen in.
—> WHAT’S NEXT: Dozens of Jackals could soon be patrolling low Earth orbit, geostationary lanes, and even the space between Earth and the moon. Quiet, fast, always watching.
Source: IEEE Spectrum
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🤖 POPE LEO XIV SAYS AI IS THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. In first address, the new Pope (and Delco alum) links his name to Church’s 1891 labor manifesto—and calls on Catholics to confront AI’s threat to dignity, justice, and work.
—> THE CONTEXT: Pope Leo XIV said he chose his name to echo Pope Leo XIII, who issued Rerum Novarum during the original Industrial Revolution. That text became the foundation of modern Catholic social teaching. Now, the Church faces a new revolution—driven by artificial intelligence.
—> HIS WARNING: “The Church offers her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution… AI poses new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor,” the pope told cardinals at the Vatican.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: The Vatican isn’t treating AI as just another tech trend—it’s casting it as a seismic shift on par with the Industrial Revolution. Pope Leo XIII led the Church from 1878 to 1903, confronting the rise of mechanized labor with a bold moral stance: “It is neither just nor human to seek to reduce persons to the level of machines.”
—> THE POPE MEETS THE FUTURE: By invoking that legacy, Pope Leo XIV is warning that AI could once again commodify labor, widen inequality, and erode dignity—unless the world finds moral clarity.
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