1. David Brooks offers some Sidney awards, including to Works in Progress (NYT).
2. If you are the Lakers, of course you should have traded for the new superstar, namely Luka. But by now it is clear the trade actually will not work out so well, and Dallas is better off with Cooper Flagg.
3. “The threat to German auto producers isn’t from Chinese cars flooding Germany. It’s from Chinese cars flooding to emerging markets (red), where they’re killing the market for German cars. That’s not something EU tariffs on China are going to be able to fix.” Link here.
4. Why everyone loves Japan.
5. The brother Megan McArdle lost.
6. “Our Archivara Math Research Agent (in alpha) just became the first AI system to fully solve an Erdős problem on its own (zero human input or literature online).” Link here.
7. Israel just recognized Somaliland.
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