Elon Musk officially launched Terafab, a $20-25 billion chip fabrication venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, housed in a defunct power plant in Austin. The facility will produce two chip types: AI5 inference chips for vehicles and Optimus robots, and D3 chips for orbital AI satellites, with 80% of output directed to space-based compute. Musk called it "the most epic chip building exercise in history." (Yahoo Finance)

Trump gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on its power plants. The deadline expires tonight at 23:44 GMT. Brent crude is sitting near $113 a barrel, gas hit $3.94 a gallon, and Asian markets got hammered overnight: South Korea's KOSPI dropped 6.5%, Japan's Nikkei fell 3.5%, and Hong Kong sank over 4%. Analysts warn oil could reach $150-$200 if the blockade continues. (Axios)

OpenAI is shelving its most ambitious data center plans and accepting its role as a cloud buyer, not a builder, ahead of a potential IPO. The company scaled back an infrastructure deal with Nvidia, signaling it's serious about showing Wall Street a path to profitability. Altman previously floated $1.4 trillion in commitments over eight years, but IPO investors want discipline, not vision decks. (CNBC)

OpenClaw's viral rise as a free, open-source AI agent is exposing a crack in the foundation model business. Developers are gravitating toward cheaper Chinese models through OpenClaw because they're "good enough," running agents locally on Mac Minis instead of paying for cloud APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. If the model layer becomes a commodity, the value shifts to whoever owns the agent framework, and right now that's an open-source lobster. (CNBC)

Tim Cook praised Chinese partners at the China Development Forum in Beijing on Sunday, days after Apple cut its App Store commission from 30% to 25% under regulatory pressure. The charm offensive is backed by results: iPhone revenue in China surged 38% to $25.5 billion in the holiday quarter, Apple's strongest China performance in four years. When your second-largest market applies pressure, you show up and smile. (CNBC)

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