Four threads moved at once in the past twenty-four hours. First, competition in artificial intelligence shifted from parameter scale toward price and deployment efficiency: a leading lab open-sourced a robot labeling model, another launched a discount offensive, and industry analysts started treating AI spending as a margin-eroding cost center. Second, European protest entered its second week, with more than four hundred thousand people marching in France, bond yields pushed to a 24-year high, and the far-right leader launching her presidential campaign. Third, elections came dense: Brazil’s presidential runoff entered voting day, Israel’s parliamentary vote is days away, and early voting opened in New York. Fourth, crypto showed a repair attempt, with spot bitcoin funds ending a two-week outflow streak, while a European Central Bank official tied the digital euro directly to sovereignty. This edition aggregates 15 sources and 88 headlines.