In a unanimous decision, Brazil’s antitrust authority CADE reopened its investigation into Google over the tech giant’s use of journalistic content. The case reflects a growing global trend of regulators scrutinizing how big tech platforms profit from news publishers’ work — a battle being fought in courtrooms and legislatures from Australia to Canada to the European Union.
Taken together, the day’s headlines paint a picture of a world in restless motion: military leadership in flux, cultural institutions weaponized in geopolitical disputes, trillion-dollar media mergers reshaping entertainment, and — in one Parisian airport — someone allegedly pointing a hairdryer at a thermometer to win a bet. The serious and the absurd, side by side, as always.
