📈 Data to start your week

AI $$$, Solana, sanctions & an American tragedy

Hi

Here’s your essential Monday round-up of data driving conversation this week — all in less than 250 words.

Have a good week.

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1. Tariffs, Tariffs, Tariffs. The US plans 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium imports despite heavy reliance on foreign aluminium.

2. President Macron has committed €109 billion to AI, matching—relative to GDP—the ambitious scope of the American $500 billion Stargate program.

3. For $50 of compute and just 1,000 samples, researchers at Stanford and Washington University trained a reasoning model.

4. India and the US comprise 25% of new DeepSeek users.