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Can Core Scientific’s Business Pay For Its Spending?
For questions about this article or underlying research, email help@trefis.com.Core Scientific (CORZ) has built five data center campuses for its colocation customer CoreWeave, and it is now constructing sites for AMD. Over the last twelve months, the company's capital spending came to $1.
What Did CVS Health's Quarter Change For Its Stock?
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What Did CVS Health’s Quarter Change For Its Stock?
For questions about this article or underlying research, email help@trefis.com.On November 4, CVS Health (CVS) reported its fiscal Q3 2026 results. The stock fell 12.5% that day, while the S&P 500 rose 1.6%.
Final Saints vs. Browns Injury Report: Jordyn Tyson and Kelvin Banks Jr. are questionable
The Saints have 4 players questionable for Sunday's matchup against the Browns.
Israeli politicians who grew up poor see poverty as a challenge to overcome, not a systemic problem
The study raises a fundamental question for modern democracies: When legislators claim to represent a community because they come from it, how do they actually interpret that shared past?
Democrat who dropped out of race over health wins anyway; GOP opponent says, ‘We deserve to know more’
A Democratic candidate who suspended his campaign for a western Iowa legislative district in September because of health reasons still won his race as part of the sweeping success story against Republicans, leading to new questions from his rival.
Festival highlights mental health resources and client access to care
Over 20 community organizations gathered at the Gainesville Opportunity Center on Friday, connecting residents with mental health resources and raising questions about how easy it is for those in need to access support.
Knicks organization responds to Tyler Kolek and Miles McBride questioning Taylor Swift’s fandom
The Knicks stars went viral for their comments about Taylor Swift.
Texas A&M starter is questionable vs South Carolina
Texas A&M starting running back KJ Edwards is questionable to play in Week 10 vs. the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Pat Bryant practices in full, ready for Week 9
Denver Broncos wide receiver Pat Bryant practiced in full for the third straight day Friday, and he is listed as questionable for Week 9
DOJ moves to dismiss its lawsuit demanding California set aside ballots
The request to dismiss the case comes days after Republicans' significant losses in the midterm elections
Hunter Henry receives questionable tag for Week 9
Patriots TE Hunter Henry was back on practice field Friday but questionable for game
Pollsters, data centers and fraud risk: CT politics news
Plus: A Connecticut museum wins Award of Merit and CVS breakup raises questions for Hartford
Washington vs. Penn St – Game Thread and How To Watch
The Big 10 is chock full of teams like Washington and Penn St, who are better defensively than offensively, who have questions about QB play, who lack explosiveness, and who will likely finish with somewhere from 6-8 wins. Iowa, Northwestern, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin all fit the same profile. The Huskies and Nittany Lions are […]
Raiders injury news: Darien Porter is questionable
Starting cornerback has a groin injury
Russell Brand’s predatory nature an open secret in entertainment industry
Bosses at BBC and Channel 4, where the comedian’s celebrity was built, are facing awkward questions about anything they may have known about his behaviour
Chris Murphy's office issues health update after senator's stroke
The Connecticut Democrat will miss the next few weeks of Senate votes after experiencing a small brain bleed. His doctor expects a "full recovery."
The Midterms Rattled AI Stocks. Here’s What to Watch in the Broader Economy.
Politics, policy, and markets collided this week as AI-exposed stocks faced a selloff after the midterms. There are reasons for cautious optimism despite the volatility, but two questions—how strong the economy is and what is driving the selling—will determine what comes next.
What Food Choices Say About Our Values: Business Administration Alumna’s Research Explores Consumer Behavior
A raw oyster sparked a bigger question for Chico State alumna Kristen Chatham: Why do we judge what others eat—and what influences those judgments?
Dak Prescott’s Blunt Take Exposes Cowboys’ Identity Crisis
Dak Prescott questions the offense's identity as George Pickens targets drop. Per CBS Sports, the team ranks near the bottom in key metrics.
Louisiana got $200M to shore up rural health care. Hospitals question how it’s being spent.
“The rural hospitals were deeply disappointed with the amounts that we got from the Rural Transformation grants,” said Paul Mathews, CEO of Hardtner Medical Center in La Salle Parish.
NVIDIA confirms the RTX 5090 isn't discontinued by giving ONE away
NVIDIA returns to giving away GeForce RTX 5090 cards after several RTX 5080 promotions. The giveaway comes as questions remain over RTX 5090 production and availability.
Stuart Varney: Democrats won 'enormous political power'
Democrats' 2026 midterm victory shifts control of Congress, raising questions about Trump's judicial nominees, the Supreme Court, Elizabeth Warren's influence over Wall Street and the 2028 election.
This gen’s top 10 PlayStation Studios games
As we near the six-year anniversary of the PS5, we thought we’d dive into our estimates for the top-grossing PlayStation Studios games since the start of the gen. Together, the 10 games we’re covering today have generated over $6.5 billion across PlayStation (84.7%), Steam (14.1%), and Xbox (1.2% via just Helldivers 2). Let’s have a look at the top 10. Spidey and Kratos sequels take the top two spots God of War Ragnarok takes the top spot with $1.4B in revenue via 21.6M copies – 20.1M on PlayStation (75.2% via PS5) and the rest on Steam. Around 27.5% of the copies sold on PlayStation were physical. It’s another PlayStation evergreen seller, too. This year, Ragnarok has already sold 1.1M copies, generating $60M (68% on PlayStation), outperforming new 2026 titles like Gears of War E-Day and Saros. Overall, our estimates show that Ragnarok has been accessed by 6.7M PlayStation Plus players (it was added to the Extra tier about two years ago). So it’s performed that well this year despite subscription cannibalisation. That’s the pull of God of War IP. And that Bautista series on Amazon is going to be massive - bigger than Fallout, I reckon. Next up is Spider-Man 2 with $1.3B across PS5 (over $1.2B) and Steam (nearly $70M). Spider-Man 2 has sold over 19.1M copies overall, so it should pass 20M early next year. Spider-Man 2 is an evergreen title that always spikes around the holidays (mostly concentrated around Christmas week): In December 2023, it sold 2.1M copies, up 20% from November 2023 (the month after release) In December 2024, Spider-Man 2 sold 460K copies (natural decay), up 60% from November 2024. Despite the Steam version launching in January 2025, it still sold more copies – and made more revenue – the month before. In December 2025, it sold 328K copies, up 30% from November 2025. This year’s December and Christmas will be somewhat limited by Spidey’s February 2026 addition to PS+ Extra, where 6.3M people accessed it for the first time. While subscription inclusions always cannibalise premium revenues to some extent, Spider-Man 2 did manage to sell 578K copies in August 2026 – the most its sold since Q1 2024, following hype from the Spider-Man Brand New Day movie. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe God of War Ragnarok and Spider-Man 2 continue to be huge evergreen tentpoles for Sony. Together, both titles have sold 3.4M this year (2.3M for Spidey and 1.1M for Ragnarok), generating a combined $172.9M ($115.8M for Spidey and $57.1M for Ragnarok). Again, some premium games would take a leaf out of Kratos’ book (not Spidey’s!) and would kill for these numbers in year 1. And we can see why Sony wants to take a leaf from Steam’s book, killing physical to get higher margins from catalogue sales, ensuring they get their cut, and having more control over supply and demand (and pricing for their first-party titles). Hot rods, hellpods, and horizons Gran Turismo 7 takes #3 this generation with $841.9M in revenue via 12.7M copies sold. For more info on GT7, you can check out our write-up from earlier this week. Around 1.1M people have already played GT7 this month, less than six days in. Next up – at #4 – is the first second-party game on this list. Helldivers 2 has generated $786.3M via 23M copies sold across Steam (66.1% of the copies), PS5 (25.7%), and the 1.5-year-later Xbox port (8.3%). And there are plenty of players very dedicated to the Super Earth cause, as over 4M folks have played Helldivers 2 for over 100 hours, while 462K played for over 500 hours. That dedication to democracy is pretty topical… Anyway, Helldivers 2 still attracts about 700K players per day (more if there’s a significant update), and its August addition to PlayStation Plus Extra has led to 1.6M new players overall. This year, Helldivers 2 has sold over 2.5M copies, generating $81.1M in revenue. It’s another evergreen hit for Sony, and draws in engagement numbers similar to Arc Raiders. The Helldivers 2 model, in my opinion, should be the way PlayStation approaches its live-service and second-party releases. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Horizon Forbidden West rounds off the first half of the top 10, generating $485.8M. That said, PlayStation completely stifled Horizon Forbidden West’s revenue by adding it to PlayStation Plus way too early (one year after launch). You can see the revenue drop-off clearly in our platform: As you can see: Forbidden West was still a healthy catalogue earner right before it was added to PS+ Extra, making about $1.23M a week on PlayStation across late 2022 and into January 2023. After it was added to Extra_, Forbidden West_’s weekly revenue halved to around $610K, basically overnight. Excluding launch month, Horizon Forbidden West generated about $67.2M on PlayStation in the period before the PS Plus addition. In the same period after it joined the service, that fell to $28.1M, a 58% drop. So, PlayStation didn’t trade a little bit of premium revenue for subscriber value here. It gave up well over half of it, and it cut momentum instantly for one of its premier franchises. Could you imagine the kind of cannibalisation if it launched day in date on Extra? Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe And the cannibalisation wasn’t a temporary blip that bounced back once the game left the service in September 2024. By then, 19 months on PS Plus had already hoovered up most of the install base that would have bought it, so there was barely a premium audience left to monetise. PlayStation even added it back to PS Plus on October 21 this year, and sure enough, weekly revenue dropped again (by around a third); though, the numbers are small now that Forbidden West is nearly four years old. Worth the trade-off. The usual suspects, platformers, and an Asia-driven second-party hit As for the rest of the list: Ghost of Yotei has now generated $410.1M via 5.5M copies on PS5. Yotei popped off a bit a few weeks ago due to a content update, which we covered here. The Last of Part Us I, a remake that we covered here, has generated $341.3M in revenue (67.2% via PlayStation) via 6.4M copies. It was also added to PS+ Extra about two years after launch, where 7.8M people accessed it for the first time. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart has made $334.9M (93.6% via PlayStation 5). It’s now passed 5M copies sold overall. It’s sold 250K copies this year, generating $13.5M in revenue. Time for another Ratchet? Stellar Blade has generated $316.9M via PS5 (59.7%) and Steam (40.3%). However, the share of Stellar Blade’s 5.4M copies sold is far closer (50.4% on PlayStation, 49.6% on Steam) – despite the Steam version releasing a year later. China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong account for 48% of Steam copies and 35% of PlayStation copies (about 41% overall). These markets are regionally priced lower than others, hence the difference. Astro Bot rounds out the top 10 with $292.6M in revenue via over 4.7M copies sold. We covered Astro’s recent performance here, covering how Astro Bot is another evergreen seller and has been a hit with families. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Even these bottom five games have generated a combined $281.7M this year in catalogue sales. PlayStation wants those numbers to be bigger in the coming years, which is one of the reasons it’s killing the disc (alongside the better margins it and publishers get through digital). No more used discs means more D2C revenue for PlayStation. On that note, we recently chatted to the New York Times again about PlayStation’s digital future, so keep your eyes peeled for that! The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. Want to see why these companies (and many others) are subscribed to Alinea? Get a free platform trial! [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. 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The Modern Data Company Adds Conversational AI to DataOS with Dex
Built for DataOS, Dex answers questions about enterprise data using governed data products, with the business context, definitions and sources behind every answer. SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 6, 2026 — The Modern Data Company has introduced Dex, a conversational AI experience built for DataOS, the company’s enterprise data platform that works across existing infrastructure. Dex lets […]
Oh boy, all girls again: FAU research tracks sea turtle sex ratios
Forty young sea turtles are back in the ocean, but their future raises a troubling question: Where are the males? After more than two decades of monitoring, FAU researchers are finding increasingly female-biased hatchling populations, with some years producing virtually no males. As warming beach temperatures alter the conditions that determine sea turtle sex, scientists warn that today’s imbalance could threaten the next generation decades from now.
Ethics Week Lecture centers on AI use for mental health support
Hee Yun Lee discusses the benefits, risks and ethical questions.
Philadelphia's Two Charter Changes Passed. Here's What They Do Now as the Official Count Begins
Philadelphia voters approved both charter amendments on Nov. 3, one letting the city favor small and local businesses on mid-size contracts and one making Creative Philadelphia a permanent office, PhillyVoice and Billy Penn reported. Neither takes effect until results are certified.
Square Enix accidentally botches a Nier: Automata update, balloons required file size from 50GB to 366GB on PC
"Do you think games are silly little things?" feels like a very on-the-nose question now.
Democrats’ big victory comes with a catch for Illinois
Democrats are celebrating their return to power in Congress, but the retirement of senior Illinois lawmakers raises questions about the state's influence in Washington.
Week 10 Analytics Preview: Syracuse Orange
Clemson travels to Syracuse for a road matchup against a team that has found some momentum, winning its last two games. The Orange present an interesting challenge, with an offense built around controlling possession and featuring one of the nation’s most productive receivers in WR Umari Hatcher. However, questions remain about quarterback play and offensive […]
The real reason your coworker is taking time off this month
PTO requests are on the rise as "Grand Theft Auto 6," "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time," and "World of Warcraft: Forever" all release this month.
Florida State football seeks new coach amid $306M question: Can FSU afford it?
Florida State has $306 million in debt but insists money won’t stop FSU football coaching search or pursuit of another national championship.
Mancini trains separately ahead of Sassuolo, Kone in doubt
Roma approaches their match against Sassuolo with a crowded infirmary and several lineup questions for Gian Piero Gasperini. Tomorrow night’s match at the Stadio Olimpico, against the team coached b...
Will Arch Manning, Dante Moore and other QB prospect questions influence NFL trade deadline?
Will Arch Manning, Dante Moore and questions around other QB prospects influence NFL trade deadline?
EXCLUSIVE: Local businessman Nachhattar Chandi discusses PS Pride, politics, & philanthropy
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) - He is a prominent local businessman and a major supporter of Palm Springs Pride, but Nachhattar Chandi's support for President Donald Trump has also raised questions within the LGBTQ community. Chandi owns Spencer's restaurant in Palm Springs, which has long been a supporter of Pride. In an exclusive interview with
Aidan Chiles Remains Listed on Injury Report Ahead of Iowa
Aidan Chiles remains questionable on Northwestern's second injury report ahead of Iowa. With kickoff approaching, the Wildcats face uncertainty at quarterback as they prepare for a crucial Big Ten matchup
Apple Surveys iPhone Duo Buyers About Crease and Camera
Apple is sending email surveys to some iPhone Duo buyers to get feedback on display size, crease, under-display camera, and other features. The first question asks why the buyer chose the iPhone Duo now, with answers like "I wanted to try Apple's first foldable," "It was an impulse purchase," and "I expect smartphone prices to increase".
“Looking for certainty”: Evansville business leaders reflect on midterm elections
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — Economic growth is called to question at the Evansville Regional Economic Partnership’s 2026 Policy Focus. E-REP brought in Rob Engstrom, the president of the Washin…
Stellantis asks parts makers for deeper visibility into supply chain
The request for "Tier-N" visibility matches policies at General Motors and other competitors as the industry experiences more frequent factory disruptions.
Can We Build Life From Scratch? A First-of-Its-Kind Cell Is Raising New Questions About the Edge of Existence
The 36-gene cell can copy its DNA and divide—but its creator still doesn’t consider it alive.
Register Now! Webinar on Microplastics: Science, Regulation, and Legal Risk | Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Join Crowell & Moring partners Pete Condron and Monty Cooper as they explore the evolving science, regulation, and litigation surrounding
Why is morning light crucial to health? Your time change questions, answered.
Answering readers’ questions about why sleep experts oppose permanent daylight saving time.
Experts question tactics, lack of mental health response in Columbia Pike police shooting
Overly aggressive tactics combined with an apparent lack of mental health responders may, according to policing experts, have contributed to a standoff on Columbia Pike escalating into a fatal officer-involved shooting. In interviews with ARLnow, two public safety experts questioned a series of decisions leading up to officers’ final confrontation with 33-year-old Shawn Valn, who
Weill Institute alumni share lessons for careers in science
The alumni panel “Journey Through Science” connected a day of interdisciplinary research presentations, discussions, and a poster session with the question: What comes next?
Wendy's RPG WendyQuest Offers Real Food Rewards for Beating Boss Fights
Wendy’s has gone full Wendy’s, releasing a 15-hour RPG based on the fast-food chain’s branding.
Ask Your Business a Question, Get a Real Answer: VirtuMCP Brings Secure AI to Miami Beach Companies
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... VirtuWorks, a Coral Gables-based provider of managed IT services and cybersecurity, is bringing VirtuMCP to Miami Beach businesses. The secure gateway connects AI assistants such as Claude and Microsoft Copilot to the systems companies already run on, so owners can get answers from their own data without giving up […]
Clemson Business welcomed top AI and consulting industry leaders for Power of Leadership Speaker Series
For consulting teams using artificial intelligence, the first question remains a familiar one: What business problem needs solving? That was a recurring
How, and why, to stress test your business case
An important element of every investment proposal is knowing the answer to this question: What happens if the assumptions fail?
Sphere Entertainment Co. reports results for the quarter ended September 30
FORECAST CHANGESRECOMMENDATIONSThis summary was machine generated from LSEG data November 5 at 03:55 p.m. UTC. All figures in US dollars unless otherwise stated. (For questions concerning the data in this report, contact Estimates.Support@lseg.com. For any other questions or feedback, contact Refi…
1115 Waiver Watch: A Look at Budget Neutrality Policy Changes
This brief discusses key Medicaid policy changes included in CMS budget neutrality guidance and identifies open questions about how the policy changes may be clarified and how they may affect states with existing 1115 waivers or states interested in applying for new ones.
Rhode Island voters approve higher education bond, providing funds for new URI integrated health building
KINGSTON, R.I. – Nov. 5, 2026 – Rhode Island voters overwhelmingly approved Question 1 on Election Day, Nov. 3, authorizing a $275 million bond investment in the state’s public colleges and universities, including $165 million for a new integrated health building at the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston Campus. The bond approval represents a significant […]
Sen. Gillibrand says Democrats must end Iran war, hold Trump accountable. But how?
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand spoke with Morning Edition about Democrats' priorities, from lowering costs to ending the Iran war. But questions remain about how they'll deliver.
Alaska Science Forum Time Capsule: Bats in the belfry
Note: Ned Rozell wrote this column on Oct. 25, 1994, his first as the new author of the Alaska Science Forum. I’m pleased to feature this time capsule, as it explores one of my favorite questions in biology: How do mammals survive in intensely cold temperatures? Additionally, Ned ended the story with, in my opinion, a perfectly silly final sentence. Ned published an update on Alaska’s little brown bats in 2019: https://bit.ly/bat-update. — Sara Wilbur
Northwestern Receives Encouraging Defensive Injury News Ahead of Iowa
Northwestern received encouraging injury news ahead of Iowa, with Robert Fitzgerald upgraded to probable, Brendan Flakes coming off the availability report and Jon Jon Stevens Jr. listed as questionable.
Lucky Strike Entertainment Q1 revenue beats estimates; suspends dividend to cut debt
OverviewOutlookResult DriversCompany press release:Key DetailsAnalyst CoverageReuters Recommended ReadsFor questions concerning the data in this report, contact Estimates.Support@lseg.com. For any other questions or feedback, contact reuters.support@thomsonreuters.com.(This story was created using…
Anthropic engineer warns of 'cognitive surrender'
"When you can't explain the answer to a question, even by way of your agent, you've ceded ownership," Claude Code engineer Addy Osmani wrote.
Sports owners bet big on Republicans. What does their defeat mean for US sports?
Sports billionaires backed Republicans, but Democratic victories leave familiar questions over gambling, stadium subsidies and who really holds power.
Midterm Voters Split on Abortion and Trans Healthcare Ballot Questions
The nationwide blue wave in the midterm election didn’t necessarily carry over to ballot measures on abortion and transgender issues.
Rare bipartisan idea gains ground: U.S.-Israel tie needs a break
Democrats and Republicans may be deeply split after the midterms, but a growing number agree on one big idea: The era of unquestioned U.S. support for Israel needs to end.
Why Did Pfizer Stop Talking Up This Business?
For questions about this article or underlying research, email help@trefis.com.Pfizer (PFE) stock trades at 2.8 times sales, against 3.2 for the S&P 500. Even at that discount, shareholders need to understand exactly what they are buying, and the company's priorities have changed.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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