Sudan drives the week's highest escalation signal — RSF capture of Kurmuk displaced 73,000 people in a single event, with indicators for rhetoric, economic warfare, diplomacy, and displacement all above initial baseline simultaneously.
China's state formalisation of AI tokens as an economic settlement unit and OpenAI's compute reallocation from video synthesis to robotics pre-training are this week's two structural signals — geopolitical AI architecture is now being built in terminology committees as much as in data centers.
Russia's Social Design Agency confirmed operating from the Budapest Embassy ahead of Hungary's April 12 election; Meta's largest-ever Russia-attributed CIB takedown; Turning Point Action's Alliance of Sovereign Nations operational across European far-right.
System stress at ELEVATED -> HIGH with zero bullish asset class scores: consumer confidence at a GFC-trough, a Hormuz supply disruption embedding a $15-20 oil premium, and private credit gate risk the most underpriced systemic trigger in the model.
Tisza leads Fidesz by 23 points with 13 days to Hungary's April 12 election; Georgia's new March 2026 law package completes its civil society capture architecture; and the Philippines enters the heatmap as a new Rapid Decay entry after CIVICUS adds it to its Watchlist at Repressed rating.
Hungary election crisis deepens with BBC voter intimidation expose and confirmed Russian political technologists in Budapest; NATO reports 20% European defence spending increase; Slovenia election produces razor-thin result amid Israeli Black Cube interference.
AMOC freshwater flux anomaly enters a third consecutive week — the strongest sustained early-warning signal since the FovS proxy metric was established — while Thwaites glacier grounding line retreat exceeds IPCC upper projections and Amazon vegetation stress expands to 450,000 km².