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In the high-stakes theater of U.S.-China technological rivalry, where headlines scream of export bans, visa crackdowns, and existential threats, a quiet truth persists: America's artificial intelligence breakthroughs owe much to the very nation it's racing against.

Long before the world knew him as the two-way unicorn who throws 102 mph fastballs and launches 500-foot home runs, a 16-year-old boy in rural Iwate Prefecture sat down with a single sheet of paper and drew a perfect 8×8 grid. In the center square he wrote, in careful teenage handwriting:“Be selected No. 1 by all eight NPB teams.”

In a move that blends Soviet-style public shaming with the gamified outrage of social media, the Trump administration has unveiled a dedicated "Media Bias" section on the official White House website. Dubbed a "Hall of Shame," this interactive page serves as a running tally of journalistic sins — real or perceived — against the president and his inner circle.

ElevenLabs just launched its new Image & Video platform — instantly becoming the most complete multimodal creation suite available anywhere.For the first time, creators can generate professional-grade video, images, audio, music, sound effects, and then fully edit everything — including lip-sync, subtitles, and 4K upscaling — without ever leaving a single workspace.

The "silver economy" — everything designed for people over 60 — is one of the fastest-growing markets on the planet. By 2030, the global spending power of consumers aged 60+ will exceed $15 trillion annually (Oxford Economics, 2023)

In the high-stakes world of music streaming, where algorithms curate playlists and fortunes are built on royalties, a single investment decision can unravel decades of brand loyalty. Daniel Ek, the co-founder and CEO of Spotify, has found himself at the center of a storm after leading a €600 million ($694 million) funding round in Helsing, a Munich-based defense tech startup specializing in AI-powered military software and drones.

In a year dominated by political chaos, AI breakthroughs, and endless true-crime obsessions, one voice has cut through the noise louder than ever: Joe Rogan. The comedian, UFC commentator, and master of mind-bending conversations has officially been crowned the world’s most popular podcaster of 2025 by Apple Podcasts, ending the long reign of The New York Times’ The Daily, Mel Robbins’ motivational empire, and the true-crime juggernaut Crime Junkie.

In a provocative experiment that has sparked debates across AI research circles, scientists from three prominent U.S. universities—Shuo Xing from Stanford University, Junyuan Hong from the University of California, Berkeley, and Yifan Wang from Carnegie Mellon University—deliberately sabotaged a large language model (LLM) by training it on low-quality "junk data." The result? An AI that exhibits profound intellectual deficits, akin to what the researchers describe as "mental retardation" in human terms.

For a long time, the conventional wisdom held that foreign films didn't fare well in the United States. Americans, it was thought, lacked the habit for either dubbing or, even more so, for subtitles. But the situation, it seems, is fundamentally changing. Non-English language films are not only starting to shape the Oscar race but are also steadily influencing broader audience interests.

Sweden, long celebrated as one of the world's most technologically advanced nations, has become the site of a radical social experiment—in reverse. For years, Swedish parents, educators, and policymakers, valuing children's autonomy, enthusiastically embraced digital technology, allowing children to "wander online space unimpeded." The result, however, was a sharp societal setback.

Kevin Kelly, renowned futurist and co-founder of Wired magazine, offers a compelling hypothesis about the future of creative content in an AI-driven world:

A groundbreaking new study suggests that a nation's geopolitical relationships are nearly as crucial for economic growth as traditional factors like institutional quality and geography. The research clearly indicates that whether a country is aligned with or in conflict with other states directly impacts its wealth.

While debates rage in the West over the mere existence of billionaires, China's elite class is growing at an unprecedented pace. Last year alone, 268 new dollar billionaires emerged, bringing the country's total to 1,021—second only to the United States. According to the latest Hurun China Rich List 2025, China now boasts 1,434 individuals with a wealth exceeding ¥5 billion (approx. $700 million). Their collective wealth surged by an astonishing 42% over the last 12 months, reaching $4.2 trillion. This colossal growth significantly outpaced the nation's overall economic growth rate of approximately 5% for the year.