The World in Twenty Minutes

Australia has officially decided that music created entirely by artificial intelligence will no longer count toward its national charts.

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Donald Trump just claimed that Canada is looking for the benefits of being a US state because trade talks have officially collapsed. it signals a shift from traditional trade friction to a much more aggressive, structural questioning of our northern neighbor's sovereignty. We're going to look at how this move plays out for your wallet.

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A machine is cutting the spine off a book tonight. North Korea prices a summit in missiles, America crosses forty trillion in debt, the cheapest AI model learns to see, and Betye Saar gets the last word.

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A company in the United States is spending 200 million dollars to build a massive underground data center in the mountains of West Virginia. This is where the story matters, because as climate change makes surface heat more unpredictable, the physical infrastructure of our digital lives is moving into the earth to stay cool.

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Let's start with the fact that a new subterranean data center in Nevada is being built three hundred feet below the surface to shield it from solar flares and cyber warfare. it reveals how the most essential part of our modern economy is moving into a literal bunker to survive.

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Season Two opens on a man in a Moscow petrol queue. How the country with the most oil ran out of fuel, the Tiananmen vigil verdict in Hong Kong, the AI homework study that proves the means still matter, Iraq's solar villages, and one line about Nirmal Purja.

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that on August 19th, the United States declared that fresh sanctions would “squash” Iran’s economy and “collapse” its regime?

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that in Tokyo last week, 10,000 flights were delayed and 40 people died when an automated check-in system collapsed? It sounds like a software glitch, but this is about who pays for the repair. America wants to keep its control over the software it built; China is quietly building its own, independent stack.

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that Japanese firms spent $7.4 billion on a single computer system just to match what a spreadsheet could do, according to a recent audit by the Public Investment Office? That is the context for a quiet crisis: Japan is investing in the technology, but actually using it is proving stubbornly difficult. I will explain why.

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Let's start with the shelves. that in the first half of this year, people bought 14 million more secondhand books than new ones for the first time since we started counting? That is the simple fact.

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