YouTube — 2026-06-24#

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Why AI Hasn’t Cured Anything…Yet, According to Jennifer Doudna | The Circuit from Bloomberg Originals is the absolute standout today. Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna offers a grounding reality check on Silicon Valley’s hype about AI instantly curing diseases, while diving deep into the very real, but complex, progress of CRISPR gene editing therapies.

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News & Business#

The Wall Street Journal unpacks a massive infrastructural headache in The U.S. Has 100K Tons of Nuclear Waste. Why Is There Still No Plan? | WSJ Pro Perfected, explaining how decades of political gridlock have effectively frozen the nation’s $51 billion waste management fund. On the macro front, the Chinese-language channel 美投侃新闻 (Meitou News) delivers an excellent breakdown of recent tech stock volatility in 小作文引发黑色星期二？大科技出现预警！房地产复苏信号持续！, analyzing whether massive AI capital expenditures by tech giants are finally testing the market’s patience for real returns. For global politics, the Hoover Institution’s Is Russia Running Out of Options? #GoodFellows evaluates Putin’s depleting leverage as Ukraine successfully strikes the Russian heartland and inflicts heavy troop casualties.

Learning & Ideas#

Carnegie Mellon University provides a fascinating tech-history lesson in Down the Rabbit Hole: How Alice Turned Computer Coding Into a Wonderland, exploring how the late Randy Pausch pioneered drag-and-drop programming back in the 90s to make coding accessible to everyone. In an incredibly insightful piece of military history and current events, Chinese creator 袁Sir’s 袁Sir聊水兵填线：让高技术兵种冲锋，大帝炮灰不够用了？#lifeano漫聊 260624 explains why Russia sending its elite, high-tech naval sailors to the frontlines as infantry is a historically dire signal of manpower exhaustion. Also worth a quick watch: the Financial Times reveals the surprisingly simple 16th-century Saxon origin of the word “dollar” in What is the origin of the word ‘dollar’? | FT #shorts.

Tech & AI#

Aside from Doudna’s skepticism on AI in biotech, hardware enthusiasts should check out CNBC’s CNBC Takes A First Look At Slate Auto’s $25,000 Modular Cars. It highlights a fascinating new bare-bones EV backed by Amazon executives that lets users easily customize the vehicle or even swap the chassis from an SUV to a pickup truck.

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In a brilliant display of frugal ingenuity, WSJ’s Why Scotland Fans Are Going to the World Cup on School Buses covers how the “Tartan Army” hijacked the American yellow school bus system to commute to World Cup matches in Rhode Island, avoiding FIFA’s exorbitant shuttle fees. Meanwhile, football fans can see what Brazil’s Vini Jr. is packing for the tournament in GQ Taiwan’s 世界盃巴西隊 Vinícius Júnior 的十樣必備物品！進20球才能買錶？賽前必吃阿薩伊果補充能量｜明星的10件私物｜GQ Taiwan.