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The Miami Heat are trending across multiple countries as the new NBA season gets underway, with searches tied to upcoming matchups against Brooklyn, Dallas and Charlotte, betting odds and broadcast details. Fresh attention has also returned to the team's Dwyane Wade statue after Wade addressed earlier criticism of the likeness in a Substack essay, saying the backlash initially affected him before he made peace with it.

A new essay by Cremieux, published on Substack, examines the idea of 'Islamic invention' and argues that the framing itself is a historical construct rather than a straightforward record of scientific achievements credited to Islamic civilisation. The piece, currently circulating among technology and history readers online, is prompting debate about how the Golden Age's contributions to science are catalogued and attributed.

Economist Adam Tooze frames the AI investment boom as a massive cashflow transfer from hyperscalers — the cloud companies spending billions on data centres — to chip manufacturers, above all Nvidia. The observation, shared from his Substack writing, is drawing attention as investors and analysts debate whether the enormous capital spending on AI infrastructure is sustainable or flowing through to equipment suppliers.