^EN This shock ripples into everything else on today's list — a leveraged Asian stock market already jittery from 'debt-fueled investing,' a Fed watching inflation, and a Canadian PM riding high on standing up to trade pressure. Watch whether oil actually breaks $100; if it does, every other economic story here gets a rewrite.

^EN The speed is the story — a robot doing tricks for cameras becoming a defense-ministry talking point within days shows how thin the line between consumer robotics PR and military R&D has become in China.

^EN Notice this is a hopes-and-bets rally, not an earnings beat — Intel's turnaround story keeps getting written by other people's projects rather than its own product wins. Worth asking what happens once the news cycle passes.

^EN This reads like a slow-motion replay — the leverage dynamics that burned Korean retail investors are now showing up region-wide, suggesting regulators are reacting to the last crisis instead of the next one.

^EN Leaders who visibly stand up to Washington on trade tend to get rewarded at home, at least short-term. The real test is whether the tariff fight delivers economic results, not just polling ones.

^EN The tension between the two stories is the real news: government messaging says 'foundation built, now scale up,' while academics say the foundation itself is lopsided — models and compute, but not the software plumbing to deploy them.

^EN The strike itself is the more interesting story — it shows French labor culture still treats a sexist workplace order as a red line worth losing tourist revenue over, not something to quietly comply with.

^EN Naver's edge isn't the AI model itself — plenty of companies have those — it's years of search queries and health data it already sits on. Nobody's answered yet how much of that data it can legally use for a commercial medical product.

^EN This only matters if it scales beyond a novelty burial — the real test is whether cemeteries and funeral regulators build a supply chain that makes this a normal, affordable option rather than a one-off story.

^EN Big claims about Millennium Prize problems have a bad track record of unraveling under peer review — the interesting part isn't the announcement, it's whether the proof survives mathematicians trying to break it over the next few months.

^EN The 'restricted zone' detail is the whole story — this isn't bad luck, it's a predictable outcome of ignoring access bans in exactly the terrain those bans exist to protect during heavy rain.