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The Chokepoints — Hormuz, Compute, and the New Control Planes

The Chokepoints — Hormuz, Compute, and the New Control Planes

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Three chokepoints are getting stress-tested in 2026: a physical one (the Strait of Hormuz), an industrial one (AI compute capacity), and a corporate one (agent management as the enterprise control plane). Segment 1: Reuters reports OPEC+ agreed to raise output by 206,000 bpd starting April 2026 — but the real variable is how long shipping through Hormuz is effectively disrupted. Segment 2: The New York Times reports Nvidia’s quarterly profit hit $43B as AI data-center chip sales reached $61.7B (up 71% YoY), with $78B in revenue guidance next quarter — turning compute into infrastructure. Segment 3: TechCrunch reports OpenAI launched Frontier, a platform for enterprises to build and manage agents, signaling that the “AI platform war” may be decided at the governance layer. Sources: Reuters, The New York Times, TechCrunch
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