Futures for the S&P 500 were flat after Jerome Powell cooled market expectations of a December cut and the U.S. agreed to cut tariffs on Chinese goods.

President Donald Trump seemed to love his whirlwind Asia trip. He danced on the tarmac in Malaysia, and was given a gold medal and crown in South Korea.

The just-wrapped Denver season of “Love Is Blind” may be the first time the show explored the Mountain West, but the Netflix reality dating show franchise is already a well-seasoned globe-trotter. In just five years,

Trump is the big beast at every global summit. And by shattering convention, remaining highly unpredictable and setting a dizzying pace for action, he has quickly consolidated global power.

Progress in energy and other areas has damped some of the pessimism around global warming. In 2015, the UN predicted temperatures would rise by 4° C compared to pre-industrial levels by 2100. It now projects a rise of 2.6° C, if climate policies are followed through.

The Vivo X300 series smartphones have been announced for global markets. Both the Vivo X300 and X300 Pro are here.

Tetsu Fujimura’s keynote talk at the Tokyo market offered a convincing argument that Japanese IP is becoming one of the country’s core industries.

Despite this danger, superintelligence remains the explicit goal of leading AI companies: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek. And given the skyrocketing valuation of these companies, they are not about to stop by themselves.