11+ hour, 3+ min ago   (104+ words) More than that, the “traditional” writer never existed in the first place. “But Stephanie,” you say, “what about those writers who use the old-style formats, formal writing, those who don’t break the rules? Aren’t they ‘traditional’ writers?” At least, they…...

16+ hour, 46+ min ago   (547+ words) Vocal How Shaan Arora bootstrapped Alia and sold it for up to $60 million without venture capital The 24 year old founder built a Shopify popup platform from his parents' home, scaled it past $13 million in revenue, and sold it to Dotdigital…...

19+ hour, 3+ min ago   (897+ words) On September 7, Tomato released new rules. I was lurking in several writers’ groups. Messages came one after another. Some posted screenshots. Some cursed. Some said, “I’m done writing.” I checked my own dashboard. August earnings: 100 yuan. Around Chinese New Year,…...

19+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1059+ words) In 2026, if you only read headlines, you would think mathematics had suddenly entered harvest season. By rough count, in just half a year, more than a dozen mathematical problems that had been open for decades were cleared out in a…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1104+ words) Vocal Fifty Millilitres of Everything How a syringe of seawater is quietly changing what it means to know what's living on the oceans seafloor I'm on deck, coveralls on, waiting for a sample of seawater to be lifted onto deck,…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (247+ words) Everyone has come across a video essay before. There're everyone on YouTube - it says it right in the title! But even though a video may call itself an essay, doesn't that really mean it is one? The main different in…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1098+ words) On September 9, market rumors said DeepSeek had entrusted CITIC Securities with preparing for a STAR Market IPO. 21st Century Business Herald learned from people familiar with the matter that the news is true. CITIC Securities has contacted DeepSeek and entered due…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (794+ words) If true, this would mean three Millennium Prize Problems had been conquered within a single month. Chinese internet discussion quickly followed, and a related question on Zhihu received more than 40,000 views. The Clay Mathematics Institute issued no statement. OpenAI issued…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (299+ words) Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from an experimental technology to a standard business tool. For owners, the main challenge is no longer identifying where to use AI, but determining whether a specific application will deliver real business value or simply…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (867+ words) On September 8, OpenAI’s server cluster finished what may have been the most expensive weekend sprint in the history of mathematics. 10,000 AI agents. 88 hours. Roughly $15 million in compute. The smoothness proof for the Navier–Stokes equations was broken into steps verifiable…...