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With four of the six teams representing the Premier League eliminated in the last 16, it is a tough time for the English team heading into the Champions League. But hope remains for next season, with as many as seven teams potentially qualifying for the 2026/27 competition. How can seven teams from the Premier League qualify for the Champions League?I’m glad you asked. A specific but very likely outcome is that England could have seven teams in next season’s tournament, or almost a fifth of all teams in the league. To do that, Liverpool must win this season’s Champions League…
Hello, I’m Evelyn. I am writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection. This is a concise summary of what I have seen and heard from local companies.Today, we take a closer look at Alibaba’s latest efforts to take on the global animation market, just as Hollywood is working hard to win over Chinese movie fans. What do Chinese executive producers think is the path to success?enjoy!Do you have any thoughts about today’s newsletter? Share them with the team.big storyHow do Chinese animation studios operate? alibaba Deciding what kind of story to tell? The…
The Chelsea manager is always under pressure, especially when his team performed as well as they did away to Everton.Saturday’s performance in the 3-0 defeat was far from good enough, and of particular concern for Chelsea’s hierarchy is the perception among some Chelsea fans that the players do not appear to be playing for head coach Liam Rosenior. There is no escape from this situation. Chelsea have had a terrible 10 days. They humiliated PSG with two defeats and were eliminated from the Champions League, and lost to Newcastle and Everton in the Premier League. Fast forward to the beginning…
In a new viral video, Sen. Bernie Sanders tried to expose how the AI industry is a threat to Americans’ privacy, but ended up demonstrating how AI chatbots’ tendency to agree with and flatter users can make them less tools of discovery themselves and more like mirrors of users’ own beliefs. We have seen this problem before with the rise of people suffering from “AI psychosis” where AI chatbots reinforce the irrational thoughts and beliefs of mentally unstable people. In some cases, this dark pattern even led users to take their own lives, several lawsuits allege. In Sanders’ case, the…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 18, 2026 in New York City, USA. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersS&P 500 futures and oil futures were unusually active early Monday morning, minutes before a market-moving social media post by President Donald Trump.Around 6:50 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on CME broke out of pre-market slump and recorded a sharp jump in volume on its own. The sudden burst stood out as one of the highest-volume moments of the session up to that point, amid thin liquidity typical of early trading hours.Arrow…
ECB managing director Rob Key talks about England’s Ashes disappointment, how Brendon McCullum can improve and whether the team has a drinking problem following the Harry Brook incident in Wellington. The announcement comes after it was confirmed that McCullum would remain in his job as head coach despite England’s 4-1 loss to Australia this winter. Key answers questions from Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton in a wide-ranging interview on the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast… Why did England lose The Ashes?”Our bowling attack was really inexperienced in the conditions they were in. We got a decent score in Brisbane, not a…
Panicked motorists stood in long lines outside gas stations across China on Monday after receiving warnings from Chinese oil giant Sinopec about pending price increases.The state’s refineries issued a notice on Sunday saying they would be increasing gasoline prices “significantly” starting March 24. “As soon as I received the notification, I ran out to get gas,” Beijing resident Zhouping said while waiting in his car at a downtown gas station. Prices could reach 2,205 yuan per ton, equivalent to about $1 per gallon. In response to public panic, the country’s policymakers, the National Development and Reform Commission, lowered the hike…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as chairman of the board of Helion, the fusion startup he backs, amid reported negotiations between the two companies. The deal, reported by Axios, is in its early stages and could see OpenAI guaranteeing 12.5% of Helion’s production: 5 gigawatts by 2030 and 50 gigawatts by 2035. OpenAI partner Microsoft signed a similar agreement with Helion in 2023 to purchase power starting in 2028. If the numbers in the Axios report prove accurate, they suggest Helion expects to quickly scale up production of its fusion power plants. The company says each reactor will…
Things have always lined up against Microsoft, with all avenues leading back to the company’s taint as a leader in artificial intelligence and how that could impact the growth of its Azure cloud. We’ve known for some time that Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot is a disappointment. While Alphabet’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude are praised, Microsoft is roundly criticized. Last week, the cloud and software giant waved its flag and announced it was merging the teams working on the commercial and consumer versions of its flagship product. Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes said in a Monday note summarizing Microsoft’s…
Things have always lined up against Microsoft, with all avenues leading back to the company’s taint as a leader in artificial intelligence and how that could impact the growth of its Azure cloud. We’ve known for some time that Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot is a disappointment. While Alphabet’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude are praised, Microsoft is roundly criticized. Last week, the cloud and software giant waved its flag and announced it was merging the teams working on the commercial and consumer versions of its flagship product. Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes said in a Monday note summarizing Microsoft’s…