TREND REPORTS
Pop Mart’s 40% Stock Rout Shows Growing Worry Over Labubu Crash
[Investing]
2025/12/18 09:07
Labubu mania appears to be ebbing as quickly as it surged, driving a roughly 40% rout for former market darling Pop Mart International Group Ltd.A disappointing US Black Friday and cooling resale demand have revived comparisons to the 1990s’ Beanie Babies bust, challenging the notion that Pop Mart could become China’s answer to Walt Disney Co. or Hello Kitty owner Sanrio Co.Pop Mart’s North...
(Paper) Melody or Machine: Detecting Synthetic Music with Dual-Stream Contrastive Learning
[Tech]
2025/12/18 09:06
The rapid evolution of end-to-end AI music generation poses an escalating threat to artistic authenticity and copyright, demanding detection methods that can keep pace. While foundational, existing models like SpecTTTra falter when faced with the diverse and rapidly advancing ecosystem of new generators, exhibiting significant performance drops on out-of-distribution (OOD) content. This general...
International Tourism to Exceed Pre-Pandemic High in 2025
[Business]
2025/12/18 09:05
After having completely recovered from the Covid-19 crisis and "the worst year in tourism history" last year, international tourism is set for a new arrival record in 2025. According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, more than 1.1 billion tourists traveled internationally in the first nine months of 2025, putting the industry on track to exceed 2024 (and 2019) arrivals by 3 to 5 perc...
Indie Perfume Brand Maison Crivelli Expands Africa Presence
[Product]
2025/12/18 09:05
Parisian perfume house Maison Crivelli is expanding its presence in Africa. On Wednesday, the buzzy indie brand will host an intimate influencer and celebrity dinner in Lagos, Nigeria to herald its recent rollout in the country.Expanding to Africa was always a key goal, Thibaud Crivelli, the line’s founder and creative director, told The Business of Beauty. “I underestimated how fast the bran...
Marcin Rusak transforms plant acoustics into botanical installation for Perrier-Jouët
[Design]
2025/12/18 09:03
Designer Marcin Rusak has transformed ultrasonic signals emitted by plants into a sculptural and sonic installation for champagne house Perrier-Jouët, unveiled at Design Miami during Miami art week. Titled Plant Pulses, the installation makes normally inaudible botanical activity perceptible, visualising how plants respond to stress and recovery through light, sound and material form.At the ce...
Walmart’s AI Strategy : Beyond the Hype, What’s Actually Working
[Business]
2025/12/17 09:10
Walmart’s December 9 transfer to Nasdaq wasn’t just a symbolic gesture. The US$905 billion retailer is making its boldest claim yet: that it’s no longer a traditional discount chain, but a tech-powered enterprise using AI to fundamentally rewire its retail operations.But beyond the marketing spin and the parade of AI announcements, what’s genuinely transforming at the world’s largest retai...
‘ChatGPT for Doctors’ Startup Doubles Valuation to $12B as Revenue Surges
[Investing]
2025/12/17 09:09
OpenEvidence, a three-year-old AI startup dubbed "ChatGPT for doctors," has doubled its valuation to $12 billion after raising $250 million, driven by over $100 million in annual revenue from healthcare subscriptions. It offers evidence-based medical insights, amid rapid growth and regulatory challenges in AI healthcare.In the fast-evolving world of artificial intelligence applied to healthcare...
Roblox's 2025 Replay Shows Just How Obsessed Gen Z Is With the Game
[Consumer]
2025/12/17 09:08
Roblox has released its 2025 Replay report, which highlights just how massive the platform has become, particularly among Gen Z users.If you don’t play Roblox yourself, your exposure to the platform may have come from news coverage focused on the company’s legal challenges, especially around child safety. Roblox has been actively working to address these concerns, and its latest user data hel...
Luxury Shoppers Are Pulling Back From Prestige Beauty
[Consumer]
2025/12/17 09:07
Luxury handbags and leather goods purchases dropped 12.8 percentage points among US adult luxury buyers since 2022, according to a September report from EMARKETER and Bizrate Insights.Year to date, fragrance dollar sales are up 17% YoY in mass and 6% for prestige, according to an August report from Circana.Meanwhile, luxury spending confidence is rebounding. 56% of US luxury consumers plan to m...
