On 7 August, new U.S. tariffs took effect on goods arriving in the U.S. from more than 90 countries. U.S. businesses and consumers now pay an average tariff rate of about 18 percent, economists have calculated, the highest rate in 90 years and eightfold more than the 2.3 percent when Donald Trump took office.
Beijing’s efforts to rein in the bloody price war that has battered the country’s automakers in recent months showed some effect last month.
Numbers posted this week about a booming “longevity industry” bear out one of our 2025 top trends, “WELCOME TO FOREVERLAND” (2 Jan 2025).
The Chinese regime’s penchant to control and surveil all mechanisms, in order to exert and maintain its political will, is facing greater challenges from crypto technology, now supercharged by the U.S. embrace of it.
Since early 2023, Bitcoin has obviously led the way in terms of recovery from a particularly bleak “crypto winter” period. But is the recent renewed interest and price appreciation of Ethereum just a regular sign of a bull run “altcoin season”, or is something more happening?
HHS (Health and Human Services) Director Robert F Kennedy Jr. this past week cut off 500 million in public funding earmarked for mRNA medical treatments and technology.
Last May, 30 of the Western world’s leading mathematicians gathered in Berkeley, Cal. Their purpose: to give a math test to OpenAI’s o4-mini AI.
The Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) 2025 Dirty Dozen list includes two new entries—blackberries and potatoes—both flagged for high pesticide levels and exposure to banned or hormone-disrupting chemicals
At its World Artificial Intelligence Conference in late July, China said it wanted to help create a worldwide organization to guide AI’s development, regulate it, and foster global cooperation in the AI revolution, officials said.
OpenAI has released its first two “open-weight” AIs, breaking with the subscription model it has relied on since its inception.