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A profile of TP-Link, whose share of the US consumer router market grew from 10% to 60% between 2019 and 2025, as it seeks to rebut national security concerns (Noah Berman/The Wire China)
https://www.thewirechina.com/2026/05/17/tp-links-american-dream/

TP-Link's American Dream - The Wire China
A Chinese success story wants to make it in America. But Jeffrey Chao and TP-Link must first rebut the national security concerns of China hawks in Washington, led by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

In a strongly worded decision this week, a federal judge ordered that the Voice of America
— its mission to provide news for countries around the world largely shut down for the past year by the Trump administration
— come roaring back to life.
Whether or not that actually happens is anybody’s guess.
The government filed notice Thursday to appeal U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s order two days earlier to put hundreds of VOA employees who have been on paid l…

Can Voice of America be put back together again?
A judge this week ruled that Voice of America's employees — and the news organization itself — get back to work. Whether that actually happens is anybody's guess. The government-run agency that broadcasts news around the world has been limping along with a skeleton staff for the past year, largely shut down by the Trump administration. But twice in the past two weeks, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ruled in favor of lawsuits designed to keep it alive, saying that its overse…

Nearly one in 10 Americans on Obamacare dropped healthcare insurance this year because of cost spikes | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/americans-dropped-obamacare-cost-spikes-b2942175.html

"Americans Believe in Science, Just Not Its Findings"
Also over a decade old. I wonder if it will ever change.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/americans-believe-in-science-just-not-its-findings/3…

"American Airlines and Google say AI helped airplanes reduce contrails that trap heat"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes #AI

American Airlines and Google say AI helped airplanes reduce contrails that trap heat
American Airlines and Google said Thursday that they significantly reduced the climate impact of some of the airline's flights using an AI-based forecasting tool to help prevent contrails.

De Wever will die Wogen im Streit mit dem amerikanischen Botschafter glätten. Von Michael Stabenow. — Trotzdem bezieht De Wever klar Stellung in dem diplomatischen Konflikt zwischen Belgien und den USA für Demokratie und Rechtsstaat und macht deutlich, was er von US-Botschafter Bill White hält.
ht…

De Wever will die Wogen im Streit mit dem amerikanischen Botschafter glätten - Belgieninfo
Der Regierungschef spart jedoch nicht mit klaren Worten an die Adresse von Bill White Von Michael Stabenow Die Spannungen zwischen Belgien und den Vereinigten Staaten wegen der umstrittenen Äußerungen des amerikanischen Botschafters in Brüssel, Bill White, haben am Montag einen neuen Höhepunkt erreicht. Dabei verlagerte sich der Schwerpunkt von der […]

Top 10 North American Sports Rivalries: From USA vs. Mexico to Ohio State vs. Michigan https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/top-10-north-american-sports-rivalries-from-usa-vs-mexico-ohio-state-vs-michigan

The SAVE America Act could backfire bigly on MAGA
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/save-america-act
📸 one of the examples that can make the SAVE act back firing...
By @…

"According to a new study, construction was impacted more than any other industry studied, with American-born workers losing more jobs than immigrants as a result of the deportations."
Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs, Study Finds - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/realestate/trumps-deportations-are-costing-americans-jobs.html

Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek are matching American frontier capability at a fraction of the cost,
and a wave of American and European challengers are building toward the same price point.
Adoption is already shifting, with Chinese models taking a growing share of enterprise AI traffic.
That’s a problem for OpenAI and Anthropic, which are pitching IPO investors on a premium moat that’s eroding fastest in the enterprise segments they need to dominate

How Cheap AI Could Derail OpenAI And Anthropic’s IPOs
Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek are matching American frontier capability at a fraction of the cost, and a wave of[...]