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OpenAI Models Top Anthropic on OpenRouter for First Time in Years Users on OpenRouter spent more on OpenAI’s models than on Anthropic’s during the week of September 7. It is the first time this has happened since the week of February 26, 2024, more than two and a half years. Developers point to recent price cuts on OpenAI endpoints, changes in default routing, and cost differences across task types as possible reasons for the shift.

🚗 Year of Foundation of Automotive Companies 🇫🇷 Peugeot - 1810 🇮🇳 Tata - 1868 🇫🇷 Renault - 1898 🇮🇹 Fiat - 1899 🇺🇸 Ford - 1903 🇬🇧 Rolls-Royce - 1904 🇩🇪 Audi - 1909 🇺🇸 Chevrolet - 1911 🇩🇪 BMW - 1916 🇩🇪 Mercedes-Benz - 1926 🇸🇪 Volvo - 1927 🇩🇪 Porsche - 1931 🇩🇪 Volkswagen - 1937 🇯🇵 Toyota - 1937 🇮🇹 Ferrari - 1939 🇰🇷 Kia - 1944 🇮🇳 Mahindra - 1945 🇯🇵 Honda - 1948 🇰🇷 Hyundai - 1967 🇨🇳 BYD - 1995 🇺🇸 Tesla - 2003 🇨🇳 Li Auto - 2015

The evolution of height: From ancient pyramids to modern skyscrapers.

🌐 In 1995 barely anyone was online. By 2024 some countries hit 100%.

Cost of an iPhone 18 Pro Around the World 🇺🇸 USA: $1,199 (pre-sales tax) 🇦🇪 UAE: $1,388 🇰🇷 South Korea: $1,485 🇯🇵 Japan: $1,431 🇨🇳 China: $1,491 🇦🇺 Australia: $1,515 🇬🇧 UK: $1,625 🇫🇷 France: $1,720 🇮🇳 India: $1,733 🇳🇴 Norway: $1,738 🇲🇽 Mexico: $1,775 🇧🇷 Brazil: $2,349 🇹🇷 Türkiye: $2,847 Source: apple. com. Prices in USD and local currency, converted 9 September 2026

🚀 Successful orbital rocket launches in 2026 🇺🇸 United States: 109 (SpaceX - 90) Rest of the world: 66 Rest of the world: 🇨🇳 China: 50 🇷🇺 Russia: 10 🇫🇷 France: 3 🇮🇳 India: 1 🇯🇵 Japan: 1 🇮🇹 Italy: 1

1 in 4 people on Earth still lack access to safely managed drinking water. That’s 2.1 billion people.

😲 Did you know that Australia is wider than the Moon and now has 28 million more people

Africa is about 14× larger than Greenland. Yet on the Mercator world map, Greenland can appear almost as large as Africa. The UN General Assembly is now set to vote on a resolution calling for greater use of equal-area maps that represent continents closer to their actual size. Africa wants the map to reflect reality.

⚽️Top 10 Highest-Paid Football Superstars (2009–2026)

🧳 Countries by Share of People Who Have Traveled Abroad 🇮🇳 India: 3% 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 6% 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 9% 🇧🇷 Brazil: 13% 🇲🇽 Mexico: 21% 🇿🇦 South Africa: 23% 🇰🇪 Kenya: 28% 🇦🇷 Argentina: 37% 🇯🇵 Japan: 65% 🇵🇱 Poland: 66% 🇺🇸 United States: 76% 🇬🇷 Greece: 79% 🇰🇷 South Korea: 79% 🇭🇺 Hungary: 83% 🇪🇸 Spain: 84% 🇮🇹 Italy: 86% 🇮🇱 Israel: 87% 🇦🇺 Australia: 88% 🇫🇷 France: 90% 🇨🇦 Canada: 92% 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 94% 🇩🇪 Germany: 96% 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 99% 🇸🇪 Sweden: 99% Source: Pew Research Center, 2023

☢️ Number of Operable Nuclear Reactors - Germany built nuclear reactors for 60 years. Then shut them all down. - Japan was next, until Fukushima changed everything overnight. Now China builds faster than anyone in history.

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A new study tracked 27,000 students aged 12-18 in China, where AI adoption has been fast. As the first chart here shows, students using AI saw their average homework score rise by 18% across all subjects after six months. But come exam time, the same students scored 20% below their classmates who had not called on AI’s help, as the second chart shows.

🗺 Peak population status of 236 countries 64 have already peaked, most of the rest will reach their peak by 2060.

iPhones sold: 2025 - 247 million 2024 - 232 million 2023 - 232 million 2022 - 225 million 2021 - 234 million 2020 - 197 million 2019 - 187 million 2018 - 218 million 2017 - 217 million 2016 - 212 million 2015 - 231 million 2014 - 169 million 2013 - 150 million 2012 - 125 million 2011 - 72 million 2010 - 40 million 2009 - 21 million 2008 - 12 million 2007 - 1 million

🪙 The Largest Gold Producers in the World 1975-2026

Electricity Source in the US 39% of US electricity still comes from gas. Coal, often declared dead, still beats solar. And nuclear runs 24/7 with zero emissions yet hasn’t had a new major plant built in decades.

— Em Dash (favored by AI) usage on the Web (per 10,000 words) 2023: 6 2026: 11.5 Source: Pew Research Center