The Economist.

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm Jason Palmer.

And I'm Rosie Bloor.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world.

Each year, hundreds of millions of Chinese workers return to their hometowns for Lunar New Year.

This year, the government issued an unusual warning, telling people not to stay at home for long.

We asked what's changed that has the government so spooked.

And what should you watch this weekend?

I thought our culture editor was very refined until she recommended this extremely steamy TV show.

Stay tuned for what you should view and what you shouldn't,

and I've been asked to warn you, it gets a bit explicit.

But first...

Sprawling conglomerates had rather fallen out of fashion in America.

Then along came Elon Musk.

One of the things we'll be doing with SpaceX within a few years is launching solar-powered

AI satellites.

At Davos last month, his ambitions, as ever, were clearly of a

planetary scale. Space is really the source of immense power, and then you don't need to

take up any room on Earth. There's so much room in space. Solar-powered AI satellites might sound

ludicrous, but this week, that vision became more of a possibility.

Musk announced that SpaceX would merge with X-AI, one of his other companies, which currently makes chatbots.

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