Tech

Treat blind hiring policy as a targeted tool, not a cure-all Recent pilots show anonymity widens access while quality holds steady Use a tiered process—Stage-1 blind scoring, controlled unblinding, and outcome audits—to balance equity and excellence

Chinese EVs are cheaper due to scale, supply chains, and subsidies Targeted EU tariffs and price floors correct subsidy-driven undercutting Link trade defense to localization, skills, and investment to protect competitiveness

Factory tours scaled US–Japan know-how Aerospace: from licenses to composite wings Open collaboration with firm research security In the late 1950s and early 1960s, 400 to 500 Japanese firms sent managers on organ

Europe lags by scale, not ideas: U.S.

Trump’s tariffs are driving factories and capital from China into Southeast Asia ASEAN is gaining ground in high-tech exports and global manufacturing Education and skills will decide whether this shift creates lasting, quality jobs

The US funds fabs but lacks skilled workers Asian firms plug gaps with temporary foreign technicians Real fix: serious US semiconductor workforce training The fight for factory jobs in the United States has become a struggle

EU digital regulation simplification will shape Europe’s tech power Fragmented rules now act as an uncertainty tax on digital innovators The article urges clear, one-stop rules that turn high standards into an advantage.

Digital mercantilism drives the U.S.–Korea platform fight in schools Make access reciprocal, data portable, and impact proven Treat ed-tech buying as trade policy to protect learning and competition T

Publicity is now a measurable asset, not just awareness AI “digital doubles” and new laws make identity portable, licensable, and enforceable Schools should value identity with attention-adjusted EMV and share revenue transparently

Manufacturing hires fewer people; services now drive job growth Digital services hit $4.25T and robot density doubled, shrinking mid-skill factory roles Pivot to service-led industrialisation with skills, standards, and digital trade rules

Japan’s equity play in African venture capital builds firms and skills The gap is stark: $57.1B BRI (H1-2025) vs $2.2B Africa VC equity (2024), with 31% still debt Link universities, co-investment rules, and procurement to crowd in patient equity and scale export-ready startups

Grab–GoTo could control ~85–90% of ride-hailing, risking lock-in Approve only with guardrails—data portability, fair access, pricing caps, driver-earnings floors—or block Educators and ministries should bake these rules into procurement and curricula

U.S. spin-off narrows feeds Students lose global views Mandate diversity metrics, open datasets TikTok reaches millions of Americans every day, and a significant number are students. In 2024, Pew found that 58% of U.S.

Industrial subsidies in East Asia misallocate resources and dampen productivity Cheap credit and opaque, incumbent-favoring programs entrench weak firms Make support transparent, performance-based, and linked to skills and exit

Quantum Echoes delivered a verified 13,000× speedup, elevating quantum chaos education Curricula should pivot from qubit counts to competence in echoes, OTOCs, and noise Fund teacher PD, simple cloud labs, and artifact-based assessment

China’s soft power problem is monetization, not creativity Shift incentives to export outcomes, licensing, and private experimentation Let partners localize, focus on proven genres, and flip the IP receipts–payments gap Chi

Learning spreads through educator networks Eigenvector centrality pinpoints the hubs to seed first Targeting those hubs speeds recovery systemwide Seventy percent of 10-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries still canno

AI tongue diagnosis turns a centuries-old check into fast, cheap triage With phones and clear protocols, it flags likely risks for confirmatory tests Deploy in primary care with consent, calibration, and monitoring to scale safely

Deepfakes are breaking trust in evidence Campuses need rapid takedowns, provenance checks, and victim support Lawmakers must close gaps now with clear liability and cross-border enforcement We used to view images as facts.

Germans distrust AI-made news but reward transparent, human-led outlets Trust grows when provenance and labeling are clear EU rules now make this transparency mandatory A striking number tells the story.