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- TikTok's 30 Creators Show FIFA Is Redrawing World Cup Coverage
TikTok's 30 Creator Correspondents and YouTube's Preferred Platform deal show how FIFA is redrawing World Cup coverage, with broadcasters still holding live rights.
- The U.S. has 1,200 AI bills and no good test for any of them
Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques and NYU's Gary Marcus offer a method for separating necessary AI regulation from legislative noise.
- India Is Building The Electric Economy Without The Fossil Detour
New analysis suggests India may be taking an “electrotech fast-track” to prosperity, bypassing the fossil-heavy development path of the West and China.
- Chinese AI Optics Billionaire Eyes Dual Listing In Hong Kong After 340% Stock Rally
RoboTechnik Intelligent Technology’s Shenzhen-listed shares soared 340% over the past year, propelling founder Dai Jun’s net worth to $2.4 billion.
- Trump Departs Beijing After Talks With Xi—Chinese Leader Touts Understanding On ‘Stable…Trade Ties’ (Live Updates)
Trump heaped praise on Xi again and said both leaders feel very similar about the Iran war and “want it to end.”
Technology
- The world is on track to miss its health targets
Every year the World Health Organization publishes a global health statistics report. It features the numbers behind world health trends and, importantly, assesses whether we’re on track to reach ambitious goals set in 2015. It’s a bit like a health grade. The 2026 report was published on Wednesday. And the results aren’t looking brilliant. While…
- How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines
In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then drops. A dragon-shaped tattoo appears across her chest. “Two months,” the man says. “Give me an heir, or…
- Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype
Study suggests "the bias is real but socially constructed, rather than grounded in how women actually sound."
- Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
One little mystery—solved.
- Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves
People confide almost everything to their phones.
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