New Zealand's net citizen migration has reached its lowest level since record-keeping began in 2001, indicating that citizens who leave are not returning at historical rates.

Approximately 41,000 New Zealanders moved to Australia in 2025, the highest number in 12 years.

Japan and Singapore were among the first countries to implement regulations requiring stablecoin issuers to hold 100% liquid reserves against their issued tokens.

Filipinos living abroad sent $35 billion in remittances to the Philippines in 2025, accounting for over 7% of the nation's GDP.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern moved to Australia in early 2026.

Soda sales have declined by 27% over the past two decades, losing market share to water, which now accounts for over a quarter of all beverage sales.

Bloomberg Intelligence forecasts that the total value of transactions sent via stablecoins will exceed $56 trillion by the year 2030.

U.S. electricity demand is projected to grow by as much as 20% over the next decade, driven by the hyperscaling of AI installations.

Geothermal power currently produces less than 1% of the total utility-scale electricity in the United States.

Average leasing prices for U.S. government land suitable for geothermal development surged almost 300 percent last year.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate in Las Vegas has remained approximately one percentage point above the U.S. national average.

The term 'vibe coding' was coined by Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI, to describe programming with an LLM in a conversational manner.

Activity on the code-sharing platform GitHub surged in early 2025, coinciding with the rise in popularity of AI coding assistants.

Employment for software engineers directly out of college has fallen by nearly 20% since 2022.

Visitor numbers in Las Vegas are down 7% in 2025, which is the sharpest annual decline outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh believes that AI's potential to be disinflationary in the long run creates room for interest rate cuts.

Next-generation geothermal technology companies have attracted more than $1.5 billion in private capital since 2021.

Anthropic has stated that its new AI model preview, Mythos, is too dangerous for public release.

China has become the number one automobile producer in the world.

Over a five-year period, China's auto industry advanced from being the sixth-largest to the largest in the world.