Find out why China’s promise of no arms to Iran will do little to end the war in today's episode of Iran: The Latest @sophia_yan speaks to @AGhiselliChina, a China-Iran expert who has spent the war in China, about how the conflict is perceived in Beijing 👇

“We're at our best when we're competing.” @CathieDWood on @FoxBusiness with @MariaBartiromo on why China's new AI models are a good thing for America. ARK has taken a close look at DeepSeek and Kimi K3: cheaper, yes, but far less efficient.

“Everyone is braced for both America and China to get a lot more controlling.” @DSORennie joins our “Drum Tower” podcast to discuss why China is tightening AI regulations

Primitive Weekly POV Snapshot This week, our team dives deep into how geopolitics is reshaping China's commodity strategy, why China is leapfrogging the West in AI adoption, the Pokémon-ification of software development, and the inevitable unemployment of VCs. Here is the breakdown from the PV team👇 1/ 👀 The Petroyuan Pivot @DoveyWan on the geopolitical move that changes everything: Trump locked his China visit before Khamenei died. Timing too perfect. China just lost its Iran escalation card—15% of crude imports, gone overnight. What happens next: Beijing pivots hard to Gulf states and Central Asia. More barter deals with Russia and Africa to cut USD exposure. Manufacturing accelerates out of China. Trump's real message: "Your Belt and Road ally just got decapitated. Now let's talk Taiwan." 2/🚀China's AI Adoption Curve @adaYen72 calls this China's "mobile payment moment" all over again: Remember when the West was stuck on credit cards while China moved to QR codes? Same thing happening with AI. West still hesitant. China already sprinting—no legacy systems holding them back. Why this matters: Less baggage means faster adoption. China isn't trying to fix old infrastructure. They're just building new. 3/ 🦞Pokémon Dev Era @YettaSing on what software development is becoming: A friend's GitHub is flooded with agents—scanning repos, submitting PRs everywhere. How does a regular programmer compete with that? Answer: they don't. It's not human vs human anymore. It's trained agent vs trained agent. The new game: Software development is now about who trains the best agents. We've entered the era of computational Pokémon battles. 4/ ☹️VCs Getting Automated @0xtony0x just added AI Brad Pitt to Primitive's investment committee: "Future of VC is unemployment." The reality: If agents can run due diligence, what's left for human VCs? Taste, relationships, and the ability to train even better agents. Everything else is getting automated out. Stay tuned. Stay primitive. 📷