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Tech's quiet climate hides the week's real institutional news

Tech's own board stayed modest at +0.48, even as the open web carried a federal court striking down the Anthropic blacklist, Nvidia's reported 12.9 billion dollar Hugging Face deal, a subscription price hike, and a new nightlife ban on smart glasses.

Layers disagree, and the sweep remains the more useful read of tech.

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