source-notes

Politics

• I centered the politics slate on the 6/29 Supreme Court batch and split it into five separate items: agency power, Fed independence, mail ballots, geofence warrants, and Trump-related litigation. The goal was to keep each item specific and non-overlapping.

Economy

• I chose forward-looking macro markers plus market-moving industrial policy: payrolls, ECB/Sintra, Spanish inflation, South Korea’s AI chip hub, and the chipmaker rally. A generic market recap was dropped because it repeated the chip-investment angle.

Technology

• The tech set covers security, model gating, PC hardware, agentic AI usage, and data-center power. Older policy commentary and less source-backed opinion pieces were skipped in favor of fresher, more actionable items.

Selection Notes

• Broader geopolitics and commentary-heavy AI market takes were downgraded because they were less specific than the selected items.
• When a theme had multiple candidate stories, I kept the one with the clearest source support and freshest date.