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Seedance 2.0 sparking China’s AI youth boom

By the mid-2020s, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have become so frequent that few releases genuinely surprise. Yet ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 has managed to do just that — not because it wins another benchmark race, but because it reveals something deeper about how a

When Trump’s bluff meets reality on Iran

Another US-Iran crisis, another round of carrier deployments and ultimatums, another set of predictions about imminent warfare. Yet here we are again, watching Washington and Tehran engage in their familiar dance of brinkmanship—a choreography that has become depressingly