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【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Rage bait, goblin mode … do words of the year have any real value? Analysis shows obscure and barely used choices, drawn from online slang, do not stand the test of time 正文： If you have seen a news story declaring 2025’s chosen “word of the year” in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for asking you...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro  正文：In August, a clandestine team of C.I.A. officers slipped into Venezuela with a plan to collect information on Nicolás Maduro, the country’s president, whom the Trump administration had labeled a narco-terrorist. 知识点：clandestine adj. /klænˈdɛstɪn/ Kept secr...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Tesla Is No Longer the Top EV Seller. Why Is It Losing Ground Around the World? 正文：Tesla Inc. is facing a difficult road ahead after deliveries of its fully electric vehicles declined for a second year in a row and were overtaken by Chinese rival BYD Co. on an annual basis for the first time. The US EV maker is struggl...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：OpenAI faces a make-or-break year in 2026 One of the fastest-growing companies in history is in a perilous position 正文：Sam Altman is like a juggler on a unicycle. Building all-knowing chatbots powered by cutting-edge artificial-intelligence models is too meek an ambition for OpenAI’s boss. To keep his audience rapt, he has thrown eve...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere Snatching Nicolás Maduro and attempting to take control of Venezuela and its oil is an extraordinary display of the new “Donroe doctrine” 正文：WHEN ASKED what he sought to achieve with his military campaign against Venezuela, Donald Trump used to offer only vague answers: stoppin...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T claims US has captured Venezuelan dictator and wife US president says on social media that operation to capture Nicolás Maduro carried out with US law enforcement 正文：T has claimed the US has “captured” Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them out of the South American country after a pre-dawn assa...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：What self-help books tell us about ourselves The genre holds up an unflattering mirror to society 正文：To understand modern self-help books, open “Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm”. The sequel to “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”—and no doubt the prequel to the “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Ho...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How Meta’s Newest Acquisition Target Got Around Worries Over Its Ties to China The $2.5 billion deal could herald a new era for China-linked AI companies and U.S. investors 正文：Workers at Butterfly Effect, an artificial-intelligence startup with Chinese roots, gathered in March to count down to the launch of a demo of a...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads. 正文：At first, the idea of skipping college to take a fellowship for Palantir Technologies seemed preposterous to Matteo Zanini. But he couldn’t stop thinking about it. 知识点：skip /skɪp/ (v) to move lightly by hopping; to miss out on something  蹦跳；跳过，略...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year 正文：Jensen Huang needs a moment. The CEO of Nvidia enters a cavernous studio at the company’s Bay Area headquarters and hunches over a table, his head bowed. Then someone puts on a Spotify playlist and the stirring chords of Aerosmith’s “Dream On” fill the room. Huang puts on his trad...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia—for an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old Ken Ono had an epiphany. Now the professor is moving to Silicon Valley to chase mathematical superintelligence. 正文：Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Phrase ‘US kill line’ sparks debate on American ordinary people’s economic fragility and social safety nets on Chinese social media 正文：The phrase “the US kill line” has gone viral on Chinese social media in recent days, igniting extensive discussion about economic vulnerability and systemic risk within American society. The term is now us...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Merriam-Webster declares ‘slop’ its word of the year in nod to growth of AI 正文：Merriam-Webster declared “slop” its 2025 word of the year on Monday, a sign of growing wariness around artificial intelligence. Slop is now defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence,” acc...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T Administration Declares Foreign-Made Drones a Security Threat 正文：The T administration announced on Monday that all foreign-made drones and their components posed “unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States” and would be put on a federal blacklist of equipment makers prohibited from selling their goods freely in the...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The billionaires and the babies: China’s elite seek US surrogates One of a growing number of Chinese super-rich seeking to secure a successor, Xu Bo says he has fathered a ‘tribe’ of 100 children 正文：It is a perfect mix of liberal Californian attitudes and Chinese productivity. Inspired by Elon Musk’s 14 children, Chinese billionaires are...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Your Well Informed guide to surviving Christmas Drink slowly, eat cake and remember that fun is good for you, too 正文：Since the start of 2025 our Well Informed column has brought you evidence-based advice on health and well-being. After reading hundreds of studies on everything from the benefits of red-light masks to whether or not bu...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Ditch textbooks and learn how to use a wrench to AI-proof your job? 正文：JACOB PALMER knew little about skilled manual jobs growing up, save that they were “dirty, sweaty” and “definitely seemed like lowbrow”. But it took only a year of remote learning during the covid pandemic for Mr Palmer to realise that university wasn’t for him. He dro...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s Hainan Free Trade Port heralds new era of openness Port’s relaunch to pilot trade reforms for potential national rollout while easing foreign access to China’s markets 正文：An iPhone that costs about $100 less might not sound like a trade policy story, but in China’s Hainan Island, it is. As global trade faces rising tariffs and gro...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Disguised and in Danger: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Escaped Venezuela Opposition leader María Corina Machado slipped through 10 military checkpoints to reach a fishing boat bound for Curaçao and a private jet headed to Norway. 正文：Wearing a wig and a disguise, María Corina Machado began her escape from Venezuela on Monday afternoon. Th...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T’s flawed plan to get China  hooked on Nvidia chips The president is tearing up America’s export-control policy 正文：In the race to dominate artificial intelligence (ai), China is neck and neck with America in software. Chinese models now routinely outperform many American ones on popular benchmarks. But on hardware, a wide gap remain...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Rob Reiner and the Plight of the Nepo Baby Children of privilege still have to prove themselves, as he did—and if they fail, it’s all the more painful. 正文：To put a gruesome murder in terms of an overworked phrase beloved of supposedly media-savvy people: A Hollywood nepo baby and his wife are dead, and their own nepo baby is under arrest...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：From social media to porn, age checks are spreading across the web Australia is not the only country introducing stricter controls 正文：“This reform will change lives,” proclaimed Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia, as the country banned under-16s from having social-media accounts starting December 10th. Many teenagers agreed...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Dr Chatbot is popping up all over China 正文：China’s public-health system is both world-class and woeful. The best hospitals in Beijing and Shanghai have top-notch doctors, the latest drugs and gleaming equipment. But such places make up only around 10% of China’s medical  institutions. In the country’s 33,000-odd townsh...

【欢迎订阅】   每天早上5:30，准时更新。   【阅读原文】   标题： The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach A Hanukkah massacre of  Australian Jews 正文： It’s long past time to stop saying “Anti-Semitic violence has no place in our society." Outrage upon outrage confirms that anti-Semitic violence has a large and expanding place in Western societies—that it...

【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Don’t fear China’s trillion-dollar trade surplus. It is a problem not for the rest of the world, but for China. 正文：Last year the gdp of only 19 countries exceeded $1trn. That puts the latest news from China’s customs administration into stark context. On December 8th it reported that the country’s net exports of goods in the first 11 mont...