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On my radar now

Two cool inflation reports in two days pushed the S&P 500 above 7,800 for the first time, even as new reporting revealed an Iranian missile threat forced President Trump onto a different plane leaving the NATO summit. Anthropic keeps buying compute, this time $9.1 billion of it from a bitcoin miner in Texas, and it is now watermarking Claude's output. Cava showed fast casual can still pull real traffic, Adley Rutschman finally caught a game for the scuffling Red Sox, the Patriots open the preseason tonight at Gillette, and back home a federal lawsuit over student voting IDs lands a month before the state primary.

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