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A new geopolitical flashpoint is reshaping the electric vehicle market in ways few predicted. According to Yale Climate Connections, the conflict with Iran sent fuel prices surging globally, and consumers across Europe and Asia responded by accelerating their shift to electric vehicles — while in the United States, a combination of tariffs and rolled-back incentives left American buyers largely sitting out the boom.
Meanwhile, a striking disconnect is emerging in how companies actually use artificial intelligence. A new Adobe Acrobat survey found that nearly forty percent of C-suite executives are offloading real work to AI tools — sharing sensitive documents in the process — at a far higher rate than the employees they manage, even as those same leaders are the ones setting security policy. The irony there is fairly hard to miss.
And in neuroscience, Caltech researchers have published what they describe as the first direct recordings of mirror-like activity in individual human neurons — cells that fire both when a person acts and when they observe someone else doing the same thing. It is early work, but it opens a genuinely new window into how human empathy and imitation may be wired at the cellular level.
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