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.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met in their first summit Thursday, pledging to strengthen ties that have been frequently strained by their bitter wartime history.

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.

America used to be the source of more than two-thirds of the aid destined to improve the health of people in sub-Saharan Africa. The Trump administration has dismantled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),

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 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,

U.S. futures for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were higher with more big-tech earnings due and as Trump continues his tour of Asia.

Independent analyses show measurable gains when AI permeates supply chains, including increased capacity, reduced costs and greater resilience. Research shows that fully digital trade facilitation can cut global trade costs by roughly 14% on average, with developing economies realizing the greatest gains in speed, competitiveness and market access.

Japan ’s anime industry reached an all-time high in 2024, climbing to JPY3.84 trillion ($25.25 billion) in total market value, according to data presented by the Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) at TIFFCOM, the market arm of the Tokyo International Film Festival.

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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.

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.