
Sep 18, 2025 · 5 min read · Members
Backed by subsidies and Alibaba’s ecosystem, Street Stars signals that the battle for China’s local services is moving from delivery apps to navigation gateways.

Sep 18, 2025 · 5 min read · Members
For nearly a decade, OpenAI has lived inside a paradox. It was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit meant to “benefit all of humanity,” funded by

Sep 17, 2025 · 4 min read · Members
For a brief, surreal moment this September, Larry Ellison stood at the summit of global wealth. Oracle’s co-founder — long caricatured as a swashbuckling yachtsman billionaire

Sep 11, 2025 · 5 min read · Members
On the eve of Volcano Disaster Preparedness Day, Tokyo’s metropolitan government unveiled a video that felt more like a dystopian trailer than a public-service announcement.

Sep 10, 2025 · 4 min read · Members
On TikTok, Reddit, and X, a strange insult is echoing across feeds: “clanker.” It’s not new internet slang, but a word ripped straight from a

Sep 3, 2025 · 5 min read · Members
By 2050, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is projected to kill staggering numbers of people. The antibiotics that transformed modern medicine into something survivable are steadily losing their

Sep 3, 2025 · 4 min read · Members
Picture this: you dial into a call center. No hold music, no robotic lag. Within a split second, a warm voice greets you. It doesn’t

Aug 29, 2025 · 4 min read · Members
From supercomputers to AI foresight, Weather Lab marks the end of delay in forecasting

Aug 27, 2025 · 4 min read · Members
In the heart of the U.S. financial system, there’s a place no one brags about. It’s not the high-frequency trading desks or the

Aug 24, 2025 · 4 min read · Members
In August 2025, Washington staged a theater of the absurd. Three of Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies—OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google—entered a bidding war