Mesabi Metallics plans a $15 billion Iowa mill making 10 million tons of steel a year from Minnesota ore, with first steel in 2030. It works out to $1,500 of capital per ton of yearly capacity, staked on Trump's case that the 50% tariff makes building US plants cheaper than paying it.
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Donald Trump threatened to double what South Korea pays unless Seoul backs an Alaska LNG stake Howard Lutnick put at more than $50 billion. Ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms, that pressure is landing on allies while Trump keeps a trade truce with China.
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Iowa lawmakers meet Friday to consider doubling the state's tax-credit cap to 10%, the change Mesabi Metallics' $15 billion steel plant is waiting on. Until it passes, the project rests on incentive terms that current Iowa law caps at half that level.
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Senate Democratic staff found 84% of 846 Iran-linked sanctioned wallets moved almost only in Tether's USDT. Most came from Israel's list, and any penalty rests with a Treasury and Justice Department that Senator Blumenthal says have enforced nothing.
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Senate staff say Tether froze 5 of 39 Hezbollah-linked wallets Israel named in 2023 while $34.6 million left the rest. Treasury and the Justice Department can act on that freeze record more readily than on the report's 84% USDT share when they answer Blumenthal by Oct. 9.
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Dario Amodei has his first one-on-one with Trump on Sunday as Anthropic readies an expected IPO under a Pentagon blacklist a court upheld 2-1. A dinner can ease the feud with the president, but the ban on military use of Claude stays with the courts and the Pentagon.
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Federal appeals judges voted 2-1 to uphold the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic over the limits it puts on how Claude can be used. Teams with Claude inside military deliverables should budget for a replacement while Anthropic weighs further review.
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South Korea will remit a first $2.2 billion for its US projects, including a $22.3 billion Texas LNG plant, once Trump announces them. Last year's agreement makes his public word the trigger, so his crowded diplomatic calendar now sets the payment date.
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A 25-page OTMP report names about 40 countries and specific industrial districts as transshipment routes. The follow-through will land on documentation, not duty rates.
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Lutnick says Washington is "not in favor" of Apple buying CXMT DRAM or YMTC NAND, per Crypto Briefing. Apple reportedly has until August 21 to commit, with AI demand already lifting memory prices.
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Commerce Secretary Lutnick told the Wall Street Journal on 14 August that he had put it to Apple "plainly". No rule stops the purchase, and a Senate deadline falls on 21 August.
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Trump is expected to join crypto, prediction market and AI executives on the 19th, with CME, Nasdaq, ICE and DTCC also invited. The CFTC's new advisory committee meets the next day.
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The 50% duty on that $20 billion slice collects maybe $10 billion if volumes hold, and they will not. The spending Canadians withdraw from small businesses on Washington's own side of the border never shows up as revenue at all.
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A filing with no binding force still moves the cost of walking away, and every publisher currently quoting a number to a lab is quoting it to a counterparty whose government has said in court that permission may not be required.
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Both governments drew $20bn lists at rates up to 50%, which holds the collectable duty near $10bn a year; the item with no price tag is the Keystone reopening Canada withdrew when the metals deal died.
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Trump promised American adults $5,000 each if Republicans hold Congress, a payout put near $1.3 trillion, and the two Republican leaders who would have to legislate it have both declined to promise it.
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Reuters reports exploratory talks over leasing part of Intel's Ohio complex or building a joint venture with cloud buyers who want guaranteed memory. Intel says the site comes online between 2030 and 2031.
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Reuters says renting part of Intel's unfinished Ohio plant is one of the leading options, alongside a joint venture with cloud buyers. Both companies call it undecided, and Washington threatens chip tariffs.
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Anthropic says a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick barred every foreign national from Fable 5 and Mythos 5, inside the United States as well as outside, and the only way to comply was to switch both models off for all customers.
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A summit Seoul thought unlikely ran for about 30 minutes in New York because the strategic investment talks finally moved, and the shipbuilding, submarine and nuclear energy files were tied to the same negotiation.
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