EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said on Tuesday that he has invited Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao to visit Brussels in the coming days to seek an “urgent solution” to the problem of China tightening its rare earth export restrictions. “Minister Wang Wentao has accepted the…
An innovative project named “Alpha Arena,” initiated by the AI research lab nof1.ai (founded by Jay Zhang), is capturing the attention of the global financial and tech sectors. The project pits six of the world’s top large language models (LLMs)—DeepSeek, Grok, GPT-5, Gemini, Qwen, and Claude—against…
The China Internet Network Information Center’s “Report on the Development of Generative Artificial Intelligence Applications (2025)” released on the 18th showed that as of June 2025, the user base of generative artificial intelligence in China reached 515 million, with a penetration rate of 36.5%. The report…
An American woman from Michigan said she used a chatbot named ChatGPT to generate a set of numbers and won a $100,000 prize in the PowerBall. According to CBS News, the Michigan Lottery revealed that 45-year-old resident Tammy Carvey won a $50,000 prize on September 6th,…
On October 18, Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared in Shanghai at the Global Wealth Management Forum · 2025 Suhe Bay Summit, where he engaged in a dialogue with Bai Chong’en, Executive Committee Chairman of the Global Wealth Management Forum and Dean of Tsinghua University’s School of…
Apple plans to cut production of the iPhone Air amid underwhelming sales performance, Japan’s Mizuho Securities believes (via The Elec). The Japanese investment banking and securities firm claims that the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are seeing higher sales than their predecessors during…
Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has updated the robots.txt files for millions of websites, aiming to force Google to change its crawling practices to support its AI product plans. Cloudflare calls this change the “Content Signal Policy,” which comes after publishers and other companies dependent on web…
Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s presidential special representative for foreign investment and economic cooperation, recently proposed collaborating with the United States to build a “Putin-Trump Tunnel” across the Bering Strait to connect the two countries and jointly explore natural resources. During a meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on…
On the 17th, UN Secretary-General Guterres warned while presenting the proposed 2026 budget to the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly (Administrative and Budgetary Committee) that if member states do not pay their dues in full and on time, the United Nations will face a bankruptcy…
On Thursday, Spotify announced it will partner with Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, as well as independent licensing agency Merlin and digital music company Believe to jointly develop “responsible” AI products. Although the company did not confirm any specific AI tools under…
