A Chinese artificial-intelligence company has Silicon Valley marveling at how the programmers got close to American rivals with inferior chips wsj.com/tech/ai/china-… via The Wall Street Journal Raffaele Huang

Colleagues say DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng isn’t one for the trappings of wealth or fame—but he did once say he wanted the respect of the U.S.-led technology world. It is safe to say he has it now. wsj.com/tech/ai/liang-… via The Wall Street Journal Gregory Zuckerman Raffaele Huang

The United States’ streak of more than 15 years without a major fatal airline crash has been the envy of other countries and a model for other industries. Privately, pilots and air-safety officials knew America’s luck would eventually run out. wsj.com/us-news/americ… via The Wall Street Journal

The U.S. has been engaged in weeks of frantic negotiations with Canada and Mexico, as well as lobbying by North American businesses and labor groups that have argued the across-the-board tariffs would drive up prices. wsj.com/economy/trade/… via The Wall Street Journal

The deadliest plane crash on U.S. soil in decades was a reminder that lives are made up of ordinary moments and there is no way to know when the extraordinary might intervene. wsj.com/us-news/cant-w… via The Wall Street Journal Valerie Bauerlein et al

Trump's moves underscored that he is willing to threaten major economic disruptions to make his point about what he sees as unfair trade practices and other issues such as fentanyl smuggling and illegal border crossings. wsj.com/economy/trade/… via The Wall Street Journal

Trump’s idea upended deeply held assumptions that the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. wsj.com/world/middle-e… via The Wall Street Journal Shayndi Raice

How good is Scrabble’s GOAT? He wins in languages he can’t speak. “He memorizes words as soon as he reads them once...For him, all words are equal in his memory, and he doesn’t need to know their meaning." wsj.com/lifestyle/nige… via The Wall Street Journal Natasha Dangoor

Elon Musk asked federal workers to detail their week’s work in an email. It evoked anger from unions and employees, but also head scratching from corporate America, where technology tracks workers wsj.com/business/doge-… via The Wall Street Journal

The question of what triggered a trade war between this barren archipelago and the world’s biggest economy is consuming officials. “We are 6,000 people and export nearly nothing to the U.S., except maybe some tuna." wsj.com/economy/trade/… via The Wall Street Journal Max Colchester Mike Cherney

“I know it’s f— up to say, but I had a f—ing blast.” Weldon Boyd broke into a giggle. “I had a good time.”

An amazing Valerie Bauerlein story from South Carolina: wsj.com/us-news/spivey…

They needed to get the president alone if they were going to convince him. When his tariff-loving adviser was finally away from the Oval Office, they made their move. wsj.com/politics/polic… via The Wall Street Journal alexander saeedy Josh Dawsey

Jennifer Foley didn’t believe her brother had pointed a gun. Then she found recordings of the deputy police chief telling the shooter, “You’re taken care of.” This Valerie Bauerlein blockbuster is really worth your time. (Part 1 too.) wsj.com/us-news/scott-… via The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for its series on how Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Musk transformed himself into one of the most powerful forces in the U.S. on.wsj.com/3GHTeNq

“Musk Above the Law” examined Elon Musk’s use of drugs, his secret conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his deep ties with Tesla’s board of directors. The series won the WSJ the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Read the series: wsj.com/articles/musk-…

Honored to have been a finalist for the Pulitzer, alongside an excellent team, most notably Evan Gershkovich, who reported from a Russian jail.

“It genuinely feels like hell down there." The hottest place in London is almost always the Tube. And it’s only getting hotter. Great ahed by Anvee Bhutani wsj.com/world/the-lond… via The Wall Street Journal

Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump. on.wsj.com/3TL8s7C

We often hear Ukraine’s side of this war. But we rarely hear from Russian soldiers. I spent months on this piece about one Russian who left a good life in St. Petersburg to join Moscow’s brutal war machine. His story is hard to believe - but it’s true. wsj.com/world/europe/r…