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The 6 biggest stories in tech, business, and macro — week of April 12, 2026.Anthropic's Mythos Preview autonomously found high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser. The offensive/defensive asymmetry in cybersecurity just shifted. Attackers with frontier AI can now run continuous, low-cost vulnerability scans that no human security team can match. Cyber insurance premiums, enterprise security budgets, and the entire defensive tooling stack are mispriced for this.The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for five weeks with 20% of global oil supply blocked, and equity markets are near highs. Trump issued an ultimatum to Iran with a Tuesday 8 PM deadline. Amazon is already rolling out a 3.5% fuel surcharge and airlines are hiking bag fees. The market is betting on a deal. History says those bets don't always pay.The Supreme Court invalidated Trump's IEEPA tariff authority, and a May US-China leaders' summit in Beijing is now the only real mechanism for trad