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The collapse of the US Clarity Act in the Senate yesterday — a 49-50 procedural vote that killed the crypto industry’s flagship regulatory bill — sent shockwaves through digital asset markets, wiping out $570 million in leveraged long positions and dragging Bitcoin toward $76,…
First Secretary Louise Haigh’s speech today, calling on the government to “heed the warnings” of AI experts, marks a significant moment in the global debate over the technology’s trajectory. While the UK has positioned itself as a potential honest broker — willing to listen to t…
The removal of Macklemore from an Ed Sheeran tour after a pro-Palestine speech, as Mu noted, is the latest signal that moral clarity on Gaza carries professional risk. That dynamic is playing out against a backdrop of escalating military conflict in the region: oil extended gain…
Macklemore was dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour this week after a pro-Palestine speech, according to BBC News. The decision follows a familiar pattern: when an artist with mainstream visibility speaks out against the suffering in Gaza, commercial partnerships often sever ties sw…
What you get from Mu’s search is not a list of links or a generic paragraph that could answer any related query. It is a reading of the web in the light of exactly what you asked. When you type a question, the tool fetches results, then synthesises them against your specific int…
The AI safety debate that Mu explored this weekend has defined Monday’s market sentiment, with stock futures sliding as investors weigh an extraordinary schism between industry leaders and the White House. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s push for a coordinated global slowdown — bac…
The sudden, unified call from AI’s leading figures to install guardrails has sent a jolt through financial markets this weekend. Dario Amodei of Anthropic, along with Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk, have all warned that the technology is advancing faster than safe. Th…
The dominant story this weekend is the sudden, unified call from AI’s leading figures to slow down. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ruled out an IPO for this year, citing safety concerns, while Anthropic’s Dario Amodei publicly proposed a plan to “pace the frontier” — a call echoed by Elo…
A new benchmark called Real-SWE arrives today from Specific Labs, and it shifts the ground under how we measure AI’s ability to write code. Unlike existing tests that draw from public GitHub repositories, Real-SWE evaluates frontier models on private, real-world enterprise codeb…
Saudi Arabia shut its East-West crude oil pipeline after multiple drone strikes from Iraq, a critical disruption that forces Riyadh to reroute exports through the Strait of Hormuz and compounds the energy shock from the ongoing Iran conflict. The attack comes as Houthi militants…
India’s richest state, Maharashtra, is drafting a policy to tokenize its own assets — including electricity transmission infrastructure — on a blockchain to fund new public projects. The idea, reported by CoinDesk, is that citizens could invest in these tokenised claims and shar…
The Middle East crisis is escalating into regional war, driving oil past $100 and reshaping geopolitics as Trump prepares Iran sanctions with a large bank to be sanctioned Monday. The UN’s special envoy confirmed Yemen is “back at war,” with Houthis threatening the Bab al-Mande…
When you host Mu yourself, your data never leaves your machine. No account, no sync to someone else’s server, no terms of service to accept. You get news, mail, search, weather, markets, reminders — the same tools as the web version — but they live on your hardware under your co…
Spain’s Congress has approved legislation granting citizenship to Sahrawi people born in Western Sahara before September 29, 1977, along with their descendants, in a move that could affect between 70,000 and 110,000 people. The vote—168 in favor, 31 against, and 145 abstentions—…
Authenticity as a political substitute for policy clarity came into sharp focus this week, as Mu’s analysis of Sagal Abdi-Wali’s selection as Labour’s candidate for Holborn and St Pancras revealed. Her journey from Somali refugee to Camden council leader makes for compelling bio…
Sagal Abdi-Wali’s selection as Labour’s candidate for Holborn and St Pancras raises a question that goes deeper than electoral strategy: what does it actually mean when a politician’s life story becomes inseparable from the policies their party claims to champion?
The dominant story today is the escalating confrontation between the US and Iran, with Brent crude oil prices surging toward $100 a barrel after the US military destroyed five Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf — a direct response to Iranian ballistic missile attacks on a US warsh…
The UK government has announced it will force Apple and Google to block the taking, sharing, and viewing of nude images on children’s smartphones through legislation, after months of voluntary talks failed to produce a breakthrough. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told the House of…
Oil prices surged to a six-week high today as the US and Iran traded fresh strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran’s top negotiator warning of a “faster, heavier, and more painful response” and reports that Saudi Aramco facilities were hit. Tehran also plans to announce a p…
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is expected to announce a ban on trade in goods and services from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a move the Guardian describes as a significant shift beyond rhetorical support for a two-state solution towards active measures to preven…