【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Tesla Is No Longer the Top EV Seller. Why Is It Losing Ground Around the World? 正文：Tesla Inc. is facing a difficult road ahead after deliveries of its fully electric vehicles declined for a second year in a row and were overtaken by Chinese rival BYD Co. on an annual basis for the first time. The US EV maker is struggling with heightened competition, the loss of federal purchase incentives in its home market, and backlash to the polarizing politics of Chief Execut...
Jan 08, 2026•17 min•Ep. 121
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：OpenAI faces a make-or-break year in 2026 One of the fastest-growing companies in history is in a perilous position 正文：Sam Altman is like a juggler on a unicycle. Building all-knowing chatbots powered by cutting-edge artificial-intelligence models is too meek an ambition for OpenAI’s boss. To keep his audience rapt, he has thrown ever more balls into the air. Custom chips? Of course. E-commerce? Why not. Business consulting? Too easy. A consumer device? You betcha...
Jan 07, 2026•13 min•Ep. 122
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere Snatching Nicolás Maduro and attempting to take control of Venezuela and its oil is an extraordinary display of the new “Donroe doctrine” 正文：WHEN ASKED what he sought to achieve with his military campaign against Venezuela, Donald Trump used to offer only vague answers: stopping migrants and criminals from reaching the United States; halting the flow of drugs from Venezuela; and, latterly, reclaiming oi...
Jan 06, 2026•15 min•Ep. 123
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T claims US has captured Venezuelan dictator and wife US president says on social media that operation to capture Nicolás Maduro carried out with US law enforcement 正文：T has claimed the US has “captured” Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them out of the South American country after a pre-dawn assault on Caracas and the surrounding region.“It was a brilliant operation, actually,” the US president told the New York Times aft...
Jan 05, 2026•22 min•Ep. 124
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：What self-help books tell us about ourselves The genre holds up an unflattering mirror to society 正文：To understand modern self-help books, open “Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm”. The sequel to “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”—and no doubt the prequel to the “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Massive Royalty Cheque”—these animal parables topped Britain’s bestseller charts at Christmas. They have sold many m...
Jan 04, 2026•16 min•Ep. 125
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How Meta’s Newest Acquisition Target Got Around Worries Over Its Ties to China The $2.5 billion deal could herald a new era for China-linked AI companies and U.S. investors 正文：Workers at Butterfly Effect, an artificial-intelligence startup with Chinese roots, gathered in March to count down to the launch of a demo of a new AI-powered tool called Manus. Released in the shadow of DeepSeek, a China-built AI model that rocked the U.S. market in January owing to its ad...
Jan 03, 2026•26 min•Ep. 126
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads. 正文：At first, the idea of skipping college to take a fellowship for Palantir Technologies seemed preposterous to Matteo Zanini. But he couldn’t stop thinking about it. 知识点：skip /skɪp/ (v) to move lightly by hopping; to miss out on something 蹦跳；跳过，略过 e.g. He chose to skip the meeting to finish his report earlier. 他选择跳过这场会议，好早点完成报告。 e.g. The rabbit skipped across the grass and disappeared int...
Jan 02, 2026•8 min•Ep. 127
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year 正文：Jensen Huang needs a moment. The CEO of Nvidia enters a cavernous studio at the company’s Bay Area headquarters and hunches over a table, his head bowed. Then someone puts on a Spotify playlist and the stirring chords of Aerosmith’s “Dream On” fill the room. Huang puts on his trademark black leather jacket and appears to transform, donning not just the uniform, but also the body language and optimism befit...
Jan 01, 2026•13 min•Ep. 128
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia—for an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old Ken Ono had an epiphany. Now the professor is moving to Silicon Valley to chase mathematical superintelligence. 正文：Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed. The renowned University of Virginia professor regularly ventures far beyond campus, bringing his formulas everywhere from Hollywood to the Olympics...
Dec 30, 2025•17 min•Ep. 129
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Phrase ‘US kill line’ sparks debate on American ordinary people’s economic fragility and social safety nets on Chinese social media 正文：The phrase “the US kill line” has gone viral on Chinese social media in recent days, igniting extensive discussion about economic vulnerability and systemic risk within American society. The term is now used among netizens to describe a precarious financial state in which individuals or households have virtually no margin for error...
Dec 29, 2025•13 min•Ep. 130
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Merriam-Webster declares ‘slop’ its word of the year in nod to growth of AI 正文：Merriam-Webster declared “slop” its 2025 word of the year on Monday, a sign of growing wariness around artificial intelligence. Slop is now defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence,” according to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. The word has previously been used primarily to connote a “product of little value” or “f...
Dec 29, 2025•15 min•Ep. 131
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T Administration Declares Foreign-Made Drones a Security Threat 正文：The T administration announced on Monday that all foreign-made drones and their components posed “unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States” and would be put on a federal blacklist of equipment makers prohibited from selling their goods freely in the country. Americans won’t be able to buy new models from DJI, the Chinese maker of most of the world’s drones. But U.S. pilots c...
Dec 27, 2025•9 min•Ep. 132
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The billionaires and the babies: China’s elite seek US surrogates One of a growing number of Chinese super-rich seeking to secure a successor, Xu Bo says he has fathered a ‘tribe’ of 100 children 正文：It is a perfect mix of liberal Californian attitudes and Chinese productivity. Inspired by Elon Musk’s 14 children, Chinese billionaires are using American surrogate mothers to birth scores of babies, arousing concern about the practice on both sides of the Pacific. 知识...
Dec 26, 2025•11 min•Ep. 133
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Your Well Informed guide to surviving Christmas Drink slowly, eat cake and remember that fun is good for you, too 正文：Since the start of 2025 our Well Informed column has brought you evidence-based advice on health and well-being. After reading hundreds of studies on everything from the benefits of red-light masks to whether or not butter is good for you, what have we learned about how to cope with the perils of Yuletide feasting? Here is your guide. 知识点：well infor...
Dec 25, 2025•9 min•Ep. 134
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Ditch textbooks and learn how to use a wrench to AI-proof your job? 正文：JACOB PALMER knew little about skilled manual jobs growing up, save that they were “dirty, sweaty” and “definitely seemed like lowbrow”. But it took only a year of remote learning during the covid pandemic for Mr Palmer to realise that university wasn’t for him. He dropped out after his freshman year, spent the next two years training as an apprentice electrician, and started his own business i...
Dec 24, 2025•14 min•Ep. 135
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s Hainan Free Trade Port heralds new era of openness Port’s relaunch to pilot trade reforms for potential national rollout while easing foreign access to China’s markets 正文：An iPhone that costs about $100 less might not sound like a trade policy story, but in China’s Hainan Island, it is. As global trade faces rising tariffs and growing protectionism, China is moving in the opposite direction by opening one of its doors wider. That door is Hainan, a tropical...
Dec 23, 2025•20 min•Ep. 136
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Disguised and in Danger: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Escaped Venezuela Opposition leader María Corina Machado slipped through 10 military checkpoints to reach a fishing boat bound for Curaçao and a private jet headed to Norway. 正文：Wearing a wig and a disguise, María Corina Machado began her escape from Venezuela on Monday afternoon. The Venezuelan opposition leader sought to reach Norway by Wednesday to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for challenging the...
Dec 22, 2025•8 min•Ep. 137
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T’s flawed plan to get China hooked on Nvidia chips The president is tearing up America’s export-control policy 正文：In the race to dominate artificial intelligence (ai), China is neck and neck with America in software. Chinese models now routinely outperform many American ones on popular benchmarks. But on hardware, a wide gap remains. America’s chipmakers, led by Nvidia, are far ahead. 知识点：dominate v. /ˈdɒmɪneɪt/ To have a commanding influence on; exercise control...
Dec 20, 2025•16 min•Ep. 138
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Rob Reiner and the Plight of the Nepo Baby Children of privilege still have to prove themselves, as he did—and if they fail, it’s all the more painful. 正文：To put a gruesome murder in terms of an overworked phrase beloved of supposedly media-savvy people: A Hollywood nepo baby and his wife are dead, and their own nepo baby is under arrest in connection with the killings. The story of Rob Reiner, his wife, Michele, and their son Nick ought to make people think again...
Dec 19, 2025•14 min•Ep. 139
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：From social media to porn, age checks are spreading across the web Australia is not the only country introducing stricter controls 正文：“This reform will change lives,” proclaimed Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia, as the country banned under-16s from having social-media accounts starting December 10th. Many teenagers agreed—though perhaps not in the way the government meant. “I will be completely alone for the next 3 years until I am 16,” posted a u...
Dec 18, 2025•12 min•Ep. 140
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Dr Chatbot is popping up all over China 正文：China’s public-health system is both world-class and woeful. The best hospitals in Beijing and Shanghai have top-notch doctors, the latest drugs and gleaming equipment. But such places make up only around 10% of China’s medical institutions. In the country’s 33,000-odd township-level health centres, only half of general practitioners (GPs) even have university degrees. In total China spends around 7% of its GDP on health ...
Dec 17, 2025•10 min•Ep. 141
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题： The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach A Hanukkah massacre of Australian Jews 正文： It’s long past time to stop saying “Anti-Semitic violence has no place in our society." Outrage upon outrage confirms that anti-Semitic violence has a large and expanding place in Western societies—that it is supported by many, that it is tolerated by many more, and that it is often appeased or even enabled by governments fearful of confronting large and militant factions within their po...
Dec 16, 2025•13 min•Ep. 142
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Don’t fear China’s trillion-dollar trade surplus. It is a problem not for the rest of the world, but for China. 正文：Last year the gdp of only 19 countries exceeded $1trn. That puts the latest news from China’s customs administration into stark context. On December 8th it reported that the country’s net exports of goods in the first 11 months of the year had already exceeded $1trn, more than any previous surplus. Even as America whacked tariffs on China, its enterpr...
Dec 15, 2025•8 min•Ep. 143
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Colleges Are Preparing to SelfLobotomize. The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process. 正文：Colleges are now scrambling to do too much. Over the summer, Ohio State University announced a new initiative promising to “embed AI education into the core of every undergraduate curriculum, equipping students with the ability to not only use AI tools, but to understand, question ...
Dec 12, 2025•13 min•Ep. 144
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Which economy did best in 2025? Our annual ranking returns. 正文：It could have been a lot worse. In April, as President Donald Trump started his trade war, investors and many economists braced for a steep global recession. In the end, global gdp will probably grow by around 3% this year, the same as last. Unemployment remains low almost everywhere. Stockmarkets have logged another year of respectable gains. Only inflation is really a worry. Across the oecd it remain...
Dec 11, 2025•10 min•Ep. 145
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How AI is rewiring childhood 正文：CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS may contain more surprises than usual this year, as children open presents that can talk back. Toymakers in China have declared 2025 the year of artificial intelligence (AI) and are producing robots and teddies that can teach, play and tell stories. Older children, meanwhile, are glued to viral AI videos and AI-enhanced games. At school, many are being taught with materials created with tools like ChatGPT. Some a...
Dec 10, 2025•8 min•Ep. 146
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The College Students Who Can’t Do Elementary Math A top-rated public university says many of its students can’t round numbers or add fractions. 正文：Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at a leading public university ranked highly nationally by a major college rating organization can’t do either, according to a new analysis from the school. Read, and weep for the future of America. 知识点：ele...
Dec 10, 2025•12 min•Ep. 147
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Zootopia 2 bucks trend for Hollywood releases in China as it breaks records for foreign animation. Now China’s highest-grossing foreign animation, the films, known as Zootropolis in some countries, comes amid a boom for domestic productions. 正文：A comedy about animal cops investigating a reptilian mystery has become the highest-grossing foreign animated film ever in China, bucking the trend of declining interest in overseas productions that has resulted in Hollywoo...
Dec 09, 2025•20 min•Ep. 148
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Netflix announces deal to buy Warner Bros. and HBO 正文：Netflix has triumphed in the bidding war for Warner Bros. and HBO, announcing a deal that could combine two of the three biggest streamers with one of the largest traditional movie and television studios. If the deal goes through, it will fundamentally reshape Hollywood at a precarious time for the entertainment business. It would give Netflix control of some of the industry's most valuable intellectual propert...
Dec 08, 2025•17 min•Ep. 149
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：College Students Flock to a New Major: A.I. At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decisionmaking” is now the second-mostpopular undergraduate major. 正文：Artificial intelligence is the hot new college major. This semester, more than 3,000 students enrolled in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity at the University of South Florida in Tampa. At the University of California, San Diego, 150 first-year students signed up for a...
Dec 08, 2025•15 min•Ep. 150
