WS #13710
No material new developments in the last 30 minutes. The Strait of Hormuz crisis remains stable with no new escalation or de-escalation signals. Oil prices and corporate news (Berkshire's Alphabet stake) are unchanged from the previous synthesis. No counter-signals or non-dominant-narrative developments emerged.
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Key developments
- Iran sets six non-negotiable conditions for reopening Strait of Hormuz, including US compensation and sanctions lifting
- Berkshire Hathaway buys $10B of Alphabet stock and repurchases $4.5B of own shares
- Canada races to avoid Trump's 50% tariffs on $20B of goods by Aug 19
- Apple sues OpenAI for stealing trade secrets and poaching 400+ employees
- Amazon's planned Texas data center gas plant could become largest US climate polluter
- Verizon mobile service outage affects thousands of customers