| Added to work flow elements, in high-light 
 This days work flow started as usual, just so, per here under ... I now go walkies and ice coffee-ing
 
 Q: Good morning Manus co-pilot, please (1) review relevant news of the past 24 hours resulting from your searches on-line, and the VLOGs and articles appended / attached here and hereunder by me without further prompting midway, (2) fact-check, (3) supplement with other local languages material searched on-line when advisable, (4) critique, and (5) recalibrate our Asimovian Universe Empire / Foundation 2026 TeoTwawKi / 2032 Darkest Interregnum / 2042 Demographic-flip thematic narrative waypoints, (6) deliberate pro / con as appropriate so I am less likely to be blindsided, and you do not go hallucinatory / sycophantic (7) update me on important latest pricing matter to us - i.e. share indices of USA, HKG, Japan, China, and Gold, Silver, Platinum, Copper, and DXY (value of USD). then (8) give me a report in text and in female voice file. Now I shall do walk, ice coffee, then get on with the rest of my day deliberating, shuffling, keep eyes on markets. Please do your web search for whatever fresh and reliable, fact-checked, and and and, and I shall upload to you some articles, and some VLOGs ...
 
 articles ... (1)  bloomberg.com <<US Considers Broad Software Curbs on China, White House Says>> - wasn't this already tried and still-on, what if anything changed ? (2)  bloomberg.com <<EU Prepares Trade Options to Counter China Rare Earth Curbs>> - just what is the EU trying to do, sacrificing the car industry by way of Nexperia self-harm in order to tee-up China sanctions to obtain rare earths by way of unequal treaties 2.0 ? (3)  bloomberg.com <<Why China Is Gaining the Upper Hand in Trump’s Trade War>> (4)  bloomberg.com <<US, Korea Focusing on Structure of $350 Billion Deal, Not Swap>> - are the Koreans that cowed? (5)  bloomberg.com <<Silver’s Record Run Is Being Driven by Solar Power>> - solar has always been a silver issue, so why now silver ramping albeit price tactically (?) correcting (?) from needle-high ? (6)  zerohedge.com <<"Time To Stop The Killing" - US Treasury Unveils Massive Russia Sanctions, Demands "Immediate Ceasefire">> - will it work? (7)  zerohedge.com <<Government Shutdown Becomes Second-Longest In US History: 4 Things To Know>> (8)  zerohedge.com <<How Goldman's Trading Desk Is Hedging A Market Meltdown>> (9)  zerohedge.com <<Range-Bound & Restless — Vols Bid, Momentum Cracks and Bubbly AI>> ... a few more article links coming, but all PDFs uploaded ...
 
 ... article links, but article PDFs already loaded. VLOG links coming. (10)  zerohedge.com <<Déjà Vu: The 2006 Gold Surge Ended With a 30% Crash>> (11)  zerohedge.com <<WTF Just Happened To Gold ? A Few Shocking Charts From Goldman's Commodity Desk>> (12)  scmp.com <<US fuels brain drain to China with Trump’s anti-science ‘Cultural Revolution’>> (13)  scmp.com <<Biden-era officials urge focus on hi-tech strategy, not a US manufacturing revival>> (14)  scmp.com <<Chinese state media says US ‘dying from within’ as Beijing drafts next 5-year plan>> (15)  scmp.com <<Will DeepSeek’s new AI model break the ‘long-context’ bottleneck holding back LLMs?>> (16)  Message 35305419 <<Gold's Beatdown Yesterday Was A Once-in-63-Years Statistical Anomaly With Zero Fundamental Justification Designed With A Purpose>> - is this true? Can it be true? How to tell going forward?
 
 VLOGs ... (17)  youtu.be <<Nexperia>> (18)  youtu.be <<Late Qing Dynasty>> (19)  youtu.be <<Again>> (20)  youtu.be <<self-404>> (21)  youtu.be <<Motor>> - anything special? (22)  youtu.be <<GM>> - self-harm? (23)  youtu.be <<Zeekr>> - showing the way forward? (24)  youtu.be <<blocking move>> ... is it so? (25)  youtu.be <<not-good>> - yes? (26)  youtu.be <<tells>> - please review, fact-check, deliberate, then synthesize. All go go go. Tia, J
 
 In the meantime bloomberg.com <<DeepSeek’s Surge in Africa Reveals China’s AI Power Grab>> and in the very same meantime bloomberg.com <<SoftBank’s OpenAI Ambition Is Too Grand for Banks>>
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