AI is reshaping everything at once: from a new global power race around digital sovereignty to China’s Manhattan Project scale chip push and xAI’s audacious AGI moonshot. While governments fight over data, chips, and online safety, Google’s Gemini 3 Flash, Coursera’s acquisition of Udemy, and OpenAI’s wet lab work are turning AI into a faster, more practical engine for skills and science. Privacy and trust sit center stage, with VPN debates, Tor funding, smart TV lawsuits, and “privacy” extensions secretly harvesting AI chats all redefining what online safety really means. Culture and society are bending too: AI boyfriends, Oscars moving to YouTube, artists losing work to automation, and schools banning phones show how screens, streams, and models are rewriting norms. Underneath it all, breakthroughs like microplastic free “perfect plastic” and smarter data centers hint at a future where innovation, responsibility, and sustainability must rise together. …
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