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Today we're exploring China's EV supremacy, the iPhone and the plunging birth rate, and BBC's big news.

Hi! NASA wears Prada: The Italian fashion house is working with Axiom Space on a high-tech cooling garment that the administration’s astronauts will wear underneath their spacesuits on Artemis IV mission moonwalks. Today we’re exploring: Still charging: EVs make up over half of China’s new car sales, but BYD sees room for more. Heir-drop: Could the iPhone be to blame for America’s plunging birth rate? News flash: The BBC became the world’s top news website last month. TOGETHER WITH BYD says EVs may soon take 80% of China’s new car market China’s largest EV maker thinks the country’s shift to electric still has room to run, even though EVs have already roared in recent years to account for more than half of the country’s new car sales in 2025. On Monday, BYD Executive VP Stella Li told CNBC that China’s market could “very quickly” push close to 80% EV penetration, helped by new technology in the space and a growing wave of electric options. That would be another significant leap for a nation that the International Energy Agency says has already grown at an “extremely rapid” pace in the last five years. In 2020, China barely registered among the world’s EV leaders by sales share, with electric cars taking just 6% of new car sales that year, according to IEA data. Five years later, that share has surged to 53%, putting China behind only a handful of early adopters, where years of tax breaks and purchase incentives have helped push adoption higher. In the driver’s seat China hasn’t just been climbing the adoption ranks either — it’s also supercharged the global market, accounting for six out of every 10 EVs sold worldwide last year and more than half of the global increase in EV sales. That’s even more striking given that domestic growth slowed slightly at one point last year, after a trade-in subsidy (paying consumers to swap old cars for new EVs) was temporarily halted. The nation’s been sending more of its electric vehicles abroad, too, with China’s EV exports in Q1 surging 78% from the same quarter last year, per official data cited by CNN. At the same time, BYD’s new-car registrations in Europe jumped 115% in April from a year earlier, outpacing Tesla’s 47% growth. Read the full story with an interactive chart on the web Could the iPhone be to blame for America’s plunging birth rate? There have been several theories proposed as to why birth rates are falling so rapidly around the world, from the cost of living, to female education, to anxieties about the future. But, per a recent study, there might be an even simpler explanation: it’s because you’re always on that damn phone. This week, at the same time that Apple announced plans to bring new life to its smartphone models with, you guessed it, AI, a working paper has been published that links the launch of the tech giant’s most valuable product to lower fertility rates in the US. Conceive Different In the study, researchers presented data from the introduction of the iPhone back in 2007, when it was made exclusively available on AT&T’s network, until 2011. By comparing birth-rate changes between those years in US counties with AT&T broadband access versus those with little or no coverage, the paper postulates that the iPhone’s diffusion may have caused as much as half of the fertility decline in covered areas in that time frame. The declines were especially pronounced across younger age groups, with implied reductions in births of up to 8% for the cohort aged 15-19 and 6.6% for ages 20-29. Zooming out a little, evidence for the iPhone’s impact also broadly tracks with historical US birth data from the National Center for Health Statistics across age groups. Overall, the US general fertility rate has fallen some 23% since 2007 to just 53.1 births per 1,000 females aged 15-44 in 2025, per provisional figures in the latest NCHS release. In parallel, birth rates have declined significantly since the first iPhone rollout for American females aged 15-19 (-72%), 20-24 (-50%), and 25-29 (-28%). Birth rates among those aged 30 to 34, meanwhile, stayed relatively level, and rates for cohorts aged 35+ have all ticked up. Read the full version on the web instead Sponsored by Nasdaq The Nasdaq-100 Ecosystem As US large cap equity markets have evolved over the past 15 years, the Nasdaq-100 Index® (NDX®) now stands as the premier benchmark for the 21st-century economy. Today, the Nasdaq-100 global ecosystem represents over $1.4 trillion in exposure to the world’s largest, most liquid, and most innovative companies. With a vast range of investment vehicles, including ETFs, options, futures, and more, the Nasdaq-100 Index® provides retail investors with scalable solutions, offering different products and strategies for every type of investor.  Explore the NDX ecosystem. Explore the NDX ecosystem. The BBC has become the world’s top news website... by collapsing a little less than its competitors Press Gazette just published its annual look at the biggest news sites in the world across all languages; for the most part, it doesn’t make for particularly pretty reading. The journalism industry publication’s latest update, which is based on estimates provided by Similarweb for May, found that 37 of the world’s 50 most visited news sites saw their reach shrink. Press Gazette highlighted that American outlets have been hit particularly hard by declining Google traffic compared to European counterparts, owing to the platform’s AI features rolling out earlier in the US. Even the BBC, having climbed the rankings from last year to top the 2026 chart — reportedly in part thanks to Similarweb’s decision to combine the “.co.uk” and “.com” versions of the URL, given that the sites redirect to each other depending on the user’s location — still showed a 1.9% decline from last year. It’s now become quite plain that, in the world of online news publishing, you don’t really even have to gain new web visitors to shimmy your way up the standings: it’s now simply enough to shed slightly fewer readers than everyone else. The New York Times saw a 5% decline and Fox dropped 10%, but neither came close to CNN, which saw visits plummet 23% year on year. One bright patch on the landscape? Substack.com, which broke into Press Gazette’s top 50 for the first time after rising 49.1% to clock nearly 165 million site visits this May, having already leapfrogged some of the industry’s more established names a while back. Read this on the web instead More Data Google is reportedly backstopping lease payments at five Anthropic data centers, helping the Claude maker secure $35 billion worth of AI chip financing. 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Inflation Surges (Again), It's Becerra Hilton In CA, Platner Wins In Maine, Trump's Failed War Keeps Failing

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Inflation Jumps (Again), It's Becerra Hilton In CA, Platner Wins In Maine, Trump's Failed War Keeps Failing Hopium paid subscribers gather tonight at 7pm ET, Founding Members Friday at 1pm Simon Rosenberg Jun 10   READ IN APP   Morning all. The May report of the primary gauge of inflation, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), was released this morning. It showed a 0.5 percent gain for May, and a 4.2 percent gain over the past 12 months. Here are our updated Trump inflation charts: Here’s that second inflation gauge, Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE): The coverage this morning looks like this: The “war” goes on and prices keep rising because Trump is not willing to accept the terms of his surrender: As we saw yesterday Trump’s approval on the economy in Econ/YouGov was 29%, and he has seen the lowest consumer sentiment in 65 years. For more on Trump’s failed Presidency and his betrayal of every day Americans see my new data-filled post, Reality Check - Trump Has The Worst Jobs Record Since Hoover. Upgrade to paid In California we got some more race calls yesterday - Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton will battle it out for Governor this November, Dr. Richard Pan will take on Rep. Kevin Kiley in CA-06, and Randy Villegas will take on David Valadao in CA-22. As we reported yesterday Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is heading towards a November runoff with City Councilwoman Nithya Raman. Also see my new, extensive analysis on how the tactics Trump and his allies have used to question the integrity of the California election results may be a dry run for November. Graham Platner won his primary in Maine last night and is now the Democratic nominee for US Senate against Susan Collins. Contested races for Governor on both sides, and on our side in ME-02, did not produce outright winners. So they will now go through the ranked choice voting tally process which will not produce official winners until June 19th (ugh). Many of you commented on how powerful Platner’s victory speech was last night. For those who didn’t get to watch it here it is. It is very much worth your time: I am not yet ready to rally behind Platner. I know this is not going to make everyone here happy but I want to see some independent polling, let things shake out over the next few days, and hear from folks in the community. Not ruling out endorsing and rallying for Platner but we have a lot of other races to focus on today, including many in the Senate. If you want to help Platner today you can give to him directly through his campaign site here. You can also help build out the coordinated campaign which houses the party wide field operation for Platner, and our eventual nominees for Governor and ME-02, by giving to the Audacious Expansion Fund or the Maine Democratic Party directly. A reminder that this community has been a large and early investor in the Maine Democratic Party, and have been one of the most significant investors in what will be the general election field operation that will benefit Platner and all other Democrats this November. I also want to hear from you before making a call here, as there are very strong feelings in this community about Platner both pro and con. As we have this conversation, together, we need work through it as we do all important and challenging matters - respectfully, truthfully, earnestly. I look forward to our discussion in the coming days and hope folks will weigh in - I really do want to hear from you about the best path forward here. Here’s our updated Senate outlook, with updated polls in Maine and Texas (note that the Siena poll in Texas we wrote about yesterday was revised this morning from Talarico up 3 to even, 46-46. I have no idea what happened here): And here’s a summary of recent public polling for Platner: The rancid ICE funding bill passed the House yesterday and is now headed to Trump’s desk: Here are things you can call your Senators and House Rep about today: Finish the job on the Ukraine Support Act, get it passed through the Senate to the President’s desk Finish the job on the Iran war powers resolutions that have passed both the Senate and House in recent weeks, and get them to the President’s desk No to the ballroom, the Arch, the gilded statues, the slush fund, the corruption, self-enrichment…… Hell no to Bill Pulte for ODNI, and hell hell no to Todd Blanche becoming Attorney General Hell hell hell no to the new OMB regs that will destroy government-funded science in America. Joins the new Stand Up For Science campaign to Stop Vought. Save Science today. Hopium paid subscribers gather tonight to discuss all this at 7pm ET. Register here. 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