Electricity just became a bargaining chip between Colombia and Ecuador. Colombia announced a 30% tariff on 20 Ecuadorian products and paused electricity sales across the border. It comes right after Ecuador said it’ll slap a 30% “security charge” on Colombian goods starting Feb

Most people think the AI revolution will look like a new model release. It won’t. It’ll look like a nurse finishing paperwork before sunset. OpenAI + the Gates Foundation just launched Horizon 1000: $50M to support African leaders (starting in Rwanda) deploying AI across 1,000

Watching your own tweets from pre-GenAI time are like watching your cringe activity from teen years on Facebook

Meta did something you almost never see from a big consumer platform: they turned a feature off. In the coming weeks, teens won’t be able to access Meta’s AI “characters” across its apps while Meta rebuilds the experience. When it comes back, the updated version is supposed to

AI chips just became a customs problem. Reuters says Jensen Huang is in Shanghai while Nvidia waits for Beijing to decide whether its H200 AI chip can be sold into China. Another Reuters report says Chinese customs agents were told H200s aren’t permitted to enter — and some tech

The scariest thing about modern “trust” isn’t misinformation. It’s that a single ingredient can quietly touch kitchens in 19 states before anyone realizes there’s a pattern. New update on the infant botulism investigation: FDA says an unopened sample of ByHeart’s Whole

Everyone’s watching the next model release. Courts are watching something else: who can explain what a machine did. A U.S. judicial committee is considering a first-of-its-kind rule (Proposed Rule 707) for “machine‑generated evidence.” The idea is simple: if you try to

The High Seas Treaty quietly went live last week. For the first time, the part of the ocean that’s basically “no one’s backyard” has a real legal framework, with an actual path to protecting 30% by 2030. Here’s the twist: the first practical win might not be some cinematic

Most people will treat this as boring Brussels paperwork. It isn’t. Europe is quietly turning climate policy into procurement policy. A draft EU plan would put “made in Europe” minimums into public purchases of key green tech: batteries, solar + wind components, EV chargers.

Europe just put a date on Russian gas. Not a headline-y “we should” statement. A law. EU countries gave final approval today to phase out Russian LNG by the end of 2026, and pipeline gas by Sept 30, 2027 (with a narrow extension to Nov 1, 2027 if a country can’t fill storage in

X just open-sourced its new ranking model. And, almost on cue, Europe reminded everyone what the real bottleneck is: distribution. Reuters reports Germany’s Handelsblatt says the EU Commission is preparing to open Digital Services Act proceedings against Grok — with the goal

A stablecoin issuer just became a meaningful buyer of physical gold. Tether says it added ~27 metric tons of gold in Q4 2025. Not “a little hedge.” Tons. Context matters here: USDT has about $187B in tokens out in the wild. Tether also has a gold-backed token (XAUT) worth

While Portugal is digging out from a storm that knocked out power for hundreds of thousands, and Australia is baking through a record heatwave with fires on the edges… Hong Kong just shipped one of the most quietly important AI upgrades I’ve seen in a while: “nowcasting” that

I didn’t expect to be thinking about butterflies at 7am, but someone basically built an “AirTag” for monarchs. Researchers (UM + Princeton) are fitting monarch butterflies with tiny radio tags, and the wider Project Monarch effort has already tagged 400+ migrants. The tag is 60

Many people are liquidating. I’d hate to think because they acknowledge a financial collapse is imminent.

Florida cold weather is literally delaying the first crewed Moon mission in more than 50 years. NASA is running the Artemis II “wet dress rehearsal” today, the full countdown + fueling test where they load the rocket with ~700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellant, then stop just

Gold didn’t “change fundamentals” in 48 hours. Leverage changed. After the Fed-chair nomination news, the market repriced “rate cuts soon” into “higher for longer.” The dollar firmed up. And then the mechanical part kicked in: CME raised margins on metal futures. That’s the

The Winter Olympics might move to January. Not because the IOC wants a fresh vibe. Because they want snow. Reuters reports the IOC is openly discussing shifting future Winter Games earlier (January instead of February), partly so the Paralympics can run in February instead of

India just reminded the world that oil isn’t just an energy input. It’s a negotiating chip. Reuters reports Indian refiners are avoiding new Russian crude deals for March–April loadings as a U.S.–India trade framework aims to be wrapped by March. The twist is it’s not a clean

What happened to grammarly? Used to see loads of its ads pre-ChatGPT