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🇺🇸 ABC News (English) — Source
Frames Trump at a "perilous political moment" with the base torn between "America First" isolationism and support for the Iran military campaign. Emphasizes growing internal fractures.

🇺🇸 NPR (English) — Source
Uses the word "sell" — implying reluctant buyers. Rubio must convince "skeptical G7 allies" as the US struggles to build an international coalition. Diplomatic framing.

🇪🇸 El País (Spanish) — Source
"Sánchez sale a la ofensiva" — goes on the OFFENSIVE in Congress. Positions the anti-war stance as political vindication. "No a la guerra" framed as gaining majority support across Spain.

🇬🇧 CNN (English) — Source
"Most European leaders tiptoed around Trump's war. Not Spain's PM." Sánchez as the brave outlier, "doubling down" despite Washington's trade threats.

💡 Why Framing Matters: American media frames this through DOMESTIC political cost — a "perilous moment" for Trump's coalition. Spanish media celebrates the anti-war stance as VINDICATION of Sánchez's position. NPR's diplomatic framing ("sell" the war to "skeptical" allies) reveals how isolated Washington has become on the world stage. Same war, three completely different narratives.

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🇺🇸 NPR (English) — Source
"Landmark verdict may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits." Frames as a legal earthquake — the precedent is the story, not just the damages.

🇬🇧 BBC (English) — Source
"Unprecedented win for a young woman." Centers the victim — Kaley's story of childhood addiction. Human-interest framing over legal analysis.

🇺🇸 PBS / AP (English) — Source
New Mexico state case: Meta engaged in "unconscionable trade practices." Consumer protection angle — thousands of violations, each counting toward a $375M penalty. State law as weapon against Big Tech.

🇺🇸 ABC News (English) — Source
Emphasizes that "Mark Zuckerberg and others" testified, and notes both compensatory AND punitive damages were awarded. Focuses on CEO accountability spectacle.

💡 Why Framing Matters: US media splits between LEGAL PRECEDENT (NPR's "2,000 pending cases") and HUMAN STORY (BBC's focus on "Kaley"). The New Mexico case adds a REGULATORY dimension — using consumer protection law as a blunt weapon. ABC leads with CEO ACCOUNTABILITY (Zuckerberg on the stand). Dual verdicts in one week signal a turning point in how courts view platform design.

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🇨🇳 Sina Finance (Chinese) — Source
Celebratory, official tone. Full transcript of Liu's speech outlining five AI trends: agents driving growth, industry models replacing general data, embodied AI, tokens as "settlement units," and AI safety. Frames "AI+" as unstoppable national mission.

🇨🇳 China.com.cn (Chinese) — Source
Policy-oriented: six actions for "data empowerment of AI innovation." Emphasizes ¥10 trillion industry target by 2030 and the 15th Five-Year Plan making AI the economy's central pillar.

🇨🇳 BBC Chinese (Chinese) — Source
"中國的下一場增長賭局" — China's next growth BET. Frames the same strategy as a high-stakes GAMBLE to replace the collapsed real estate sector. Cites Brookings' Kyle Chan: "China has no choice." Questions whether capital alone can drive frontier tech.

💡 Why Framing Matters: Chinese state media presents the AI strategy as triumphant national progress — 1,000× growth, an unstoppable "mission." BBC Chinese uses the word "賭局" (bet/gamble), reframing the same policy as a high-stakes wager born of economic desperation. The gap between "national engine" and "growth gamble" reveals how official narratives diverge from independent analysis of the same data.

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🇺🇸 Reuters (English) — Source
"Big rug-pull." Disney blindsided 30 minutes after a working meeting. Reuters emphasizes that no money ever actually changed hands — the billion-dollar deal was never finalized.

🇬🇧 BBC (English) — Source
More measured: OpenAI pivoting to "robotics that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks." Notes the Disney partnership ending but maintains factual, non-dramatic tone.

🇸🇦 Al Jazeera (Arabic/English) — Source
SAFETY angle: connects the shutdown directly to growing concerns about deepfake videos. Frames the closure as a response to societal risk rather than a business decision.

🇬🇧 The Register (English) — Source
"OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become." Cynical tech-insider framing. Compares OpenAI to AWS and Google's pattern of killing products.

🇺🇸 Variety (English) — Source
Hollywood industry perspective: focuses on entertainment implications and the uncertainty of AI-entertainment partnerships after such an abrupt cancellation.

💡 Why Framing Matters: Reuters and Hollywood trades tell a DRAMA story — "rug-pull," blindsided partners, corporate chaos. Al Jazeera reframes the shutdown as a SAFETY win, connecting it to deepfake fears. The Register takes a cynical tech-industry view, seeing OpenAI as a serial "product assassin." Whether Sora's death is a business failure, a safety victory, or corporate ruthlessness depends entirely on which outlet you read.

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🇫🇷 ZDNet.fr (French) — Source
"Comment le Sénat veut forcer les fournisseurs d'IA à payer les auteurs." Pragmatic framing — focuses on the mechanism as "a way to encourage different parties to reach agreements."

🇫🇷 01net (French) — Source
"Mettre fin au PILLAGE des auteurs par l'IA" — end the PILLAGE of authors by AI. Strong, emotive language. Notes the Council of State ruling found the bill "contrary neither to the Constitution nor to European law."

🇫🇷 LeMagIT (French) — Source
"Présomption de culpabilité pour les fournisseurs d'IA" — presumption of GUILT. Technical legal analysis of proposed Article L 331-4.1-1 of the intellectual property code.

🇫🇷 Génération-NT (French) — Source
"L'IA bientôt présumée coupable: une grande victoire pour les auteurs" — AI soon presumed GUILTY: a great victory for authors. Frames as David vs. Goliath, with creators winning against tech lobbies.

💡 Why Framing Matters: French media unanimously frames this as a VICTORY for creators — words like "pillage" and "presumed guilty" dominate headlines. The bill's "presumption of use" mechanism reverses the burden of proof — a radical legal innovation. While Silicon Valley might call it "regulation," French cultural institutions call it "justice." This uniquely French approach could become a global template for copyright in the AI age.

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🇰🇷 MoneyToday (Korean) — Source
CRISIS RESPONSE framing: "해킹사태" (hacking crisis) drove the reform. President Lee Jae-myung presided over the cabinet meeting. Integrates 20+ bills spanning prevention to response, including mandatory CISOs and fines for delayed incident reporting.

🇰🇷 Yonhap (Korean) — Source
Progressive governance: AI Basic Law reform task force with 40+ experts. World's second comprehensive AI law (after the EU) now evolving. Goal: finalize improvement plan by year-end for "national competitiveness."

🇰🇷 ZDNet Korea (Korean) — Source
National pride: "모두의 AI" (Everyone's AI). Sovereign foundation model to be open-sourced on HuggingFace. Five companies passed global benchmarks. Vice PM Bae: model will serve "manufacturing AI transformation across all sectors."

🇺🇸 ComputerWeekly (English) — Source
Geopolitical framing: South Korea positioning to become "one of the world's top three AI powers." Notes the full-stack strategy from AI chips and data centers to models and services.

💡 Why Framing Matters: Korean media frames these moves through NATIONAL SECURITY and SOVEREIGNTY — the hacking crisis demanded action, and AI independence from foreign providers is existential. English-language coverage frames it as GEOPOLITICAL COMPETITION — Korea racing for "top three AI power" status. Domestic media sees governance as CITIZEN PROTECTION; international media sees STRATEGIC COMPETITION.