🇺🇸✈️🇨🇳 Trump leaves for China!
Accompanying Trump on China visit
Tech :
Elon Musk — Tesla
Tim Cook — Apple
Sanjay Mehrotra — Micron
Cristiano Amon — Qualcomm
Dina Powell McCormick — Meta
Finance:
Larry Fink — BlackRock
Stephen Schwarzman — Blackstone
David Solomon — Goldman Sachs
Jane Fraser — Citigroup
Michael Miebach — Mastercard
Ryan McInerney — Visa
MIC:
Kelly Ortberg — Boeing
Larry Culp — GE Aerospace
Jim Anderson — Coherent
Agriculture:
Brian Sikes — Cargill
Healthcare/Biotech:
Jacob Thaysen — Illumina
The official itinerary of the visit:
Wednesday May 13 — Trump arrives in Beijing in the evening
Thursday May 14 — Welcome ceremony, first bilateral meeting with Xi
Friday May 15 — Second bilateral meeting with Xi, visit to the Temple of Heaven, state banquet, tea
🇻🇳 Vietnam's Communist Party is engineering internet censorship.
1,000 state-backed influencers, 5,000 AI experts, and a target of 80% "positive" content online by 2030, with AI scrubbing non-compliant posts within 24 hours.
They're calling it "ideological immunity."
China built the Great Firewall. Vietnam is building something subtler: A state-curated feed that looks organic but isn't.
The next generation of censorship will drown info, instead of blocking it.
Source: Reuters
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🔸 The IMF released a note on tokenized finance, highlighting its potential to transform banking, capital markets, and payments.
🔹 Todd Blanche, author of the DOJ memo that scaled back federal crypto enforcement, is now serving as interim U.S. Attorney General.
🔸 Google launched Gemma 4, calling it the most intelligent open model to date, designed for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.
🔹 Anthropic has acquired biotech startup Coefficient Bio for approximately $400 million, per The Information.
🔸 Elon Musk's SpaceX is targeting a valuation of more than $2 trillion for its upcoming IPO, which would make it bigger than all but five companies in the S&P 500, per Bloomberg.
🔹 Nikita Bier says large accounts (>10K followers) launching meme coins without crypto history will face verification.
🔸 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said oil at $150 per barrel could trigger a global recession.
🔹 Circle just announced cirBTC, a 1:1 Bitcoin-backed token with onchain-verifiable reserves built to move seamlessly across DeFi.
🔸 Coinbase has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to charter a federally regulated trust company for crypto custody.
🔹 US Authorities seize $600K in crypto linked to hardware wallet phishing attack targeting Ledger users.
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