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Morning Briefing — Monday, 11 May 2026 · 07:20 EST · ~1,190 words

Colin Henderson

The dominant theme today is managed ambiguity at the top of the global order. The US-Iran MOU process is the most active thread, moving faster than markets expected while remaining genuinely unresolved — Iranian factions divided, US leverage uncertain, Hormuz still choked. That negotiating limbo is directly driving the second dominant cluster: the Trump-Xi summit (May 14-15) now shaped primarily by Iran rather than trade or rare earths. Underneath both, European strategic independence is acquiring institutional weight this week — a Kiel Institute paper and fresh Bloomberg reporting on US troop withdrawals represent different facets of the same structural shift. … Continue reading Morning Briefing — Monday, 11 May 2026 · 07:20 EST · ~1,190 words

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Meta launches Muse Spark: First model from Meta Superintelligence Labs

Colin Henderson

My attention span for Meta is low because their stated target is advertising promotion on their proprietary properties. However the shift away from (meta description-Open Source ) to paid API access is structural and could place them in direct competition with Anthropic and OpenAI as a Frontier model. Something to watch. ————————————- Meta launches Muse Spark: First model from Meta Superintelligence LabsMeta debuted Muse Spark (formerly Avocado) this week — its first proprietary model since the $14.3B acquisition of Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang last June. The headline claim: same capability benchmarks as Llama 4 Maverick at over 10× less compute. … Continue reading Meta launches Muse Spark: First model from Meta Superintelligence Labs

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Exploration of thesis: “Saas shift to Gaas”. What are impacts on Core Banking software vendors and regulatory regimes

Colin Henderson

(Gaas – Agentic AI as a service – source NVDA) Here is some real time research that emanates from today’s Morning Briefing. The core of this disussion is the shif to Agentic AI and provision of core services which goes to the heart of commoditisation for tranditional vendors. The scope of this discussion here is on core banking software vendors and banking regulatory regimes OSFI. Explanation 1. Prompt: my comments and questions 2. Output: results from Claude.ai This is raw realtime thinking. The space is moving fast driven by frontier development with Anthropic Claude Mythos exemplifying the direction of Gaas … Continue reading Exploration of thesis: “Saas shift to Gaas”. What are impacts on Core Banking software vendors and regulatory regimes