QUIZ: Japan’s MAGA, Asia’s influential women, robot taxes, Tim Cook’s replacement

Japan's first female governing-party leader is an ultra-conservative star in a male-dominated group

1. Sanae Takaichi.

2. In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan's long-governing Liberal Democrats, and likely next prime minister, is an ultra-conservative star of a male-dominated party that critics call an obstacle to women's advancement.

3. In a country known for the concept of karoshi, or death from overwork, Japan’s likely next prime minister said that people should work like a WHAT?

1. A WORKHORSE

4. Before entering politics, Japan’s likely next prime minister had WHAT artistic hobby?

1. Drummer in a heavy metal band

1. Introducing Fortune’s first-ever Most Influential Women Asia ranking

1. Just to give you some context:

1. How many athletes? 4

2. How many K-pop stars? 4

3. How many actors? 2

4. How many politicians? 2

2. HOW MANY business leaders, civic leaders, scientists, educators, journalists, healthcare workers, spiritual leaders, or legal scholars?

1. ZERO

2. Democrats demand ‘action’ as AI reportedly threatens to replace 100M US jobs

1. A new Senate report warns that artificial intelligence could displace nearly 100 million U.S. jobs within the next decade, spurring Democrats to push for a levy for each human position replaced by machines, tech or algorithms. What is the current nickname for this bill:  

1. Terminator tithe

2. a "robot tax"

3. Roomba reparations

4. bot toll

5. RoboCop rebate

6. Silicon sin tax

3. According to Bloomberg, This is the leading pick to succeed Tim Cook as CEO

1. COO Sabih Khan

2. Former COO Jeff Williams, SVP Design, Watch, and Health

3. John Ternus, SVP of Hardware Engineering

4. CFO Kevan Parekh

5. CHRO Deirdre O’Brien

6. Board member Susan Wagner, founding partner and director of BlackRock

4. Deloitte will refund Australian government for WHAT?

1. climate risk model using emissions data from New Zealand and not Australia

2. A report that was filled with AI hallucinations

1. a partial refund

2. Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August

3. Shortly after the report was published, though, Sydney University Deputy Director of Health Law Chris Rudge noticed citations to multiple papers and publications that did not exist. That included multiple references to nonexistent reports by Lisa Burton Crawford, a real professor at the University of Sydney law school.

4. the updated report removed several fake citations and a fabricated quote attributed to an actual ruling from federal justice Jennifer Davies (spelled as "Davis" in the original report).

3. cybersecurity review that relied on completely fabricated case studies

4. Over 80% of the report found to have copied sections from Wikipedia

5. policy review found to have been nearly a complete duplicated a previous PwC report

5. AppLovin stock tanks on report SEC is investigating company over data-collection practices

1. POP QUIZ!

2. Adam Foroughi is the CEO of AppLovin:

1. Who is the Founder of AppLovin? Adam Foroughi

2. Who is the Chair of AppLovin? Adam Foroughi

3. Who is the longest-tenured director of AppLovin? Adam Foroughi

4. Who is the largest shareholder at AppLovin? Adam Foroughi

5. What percentage of outstanding AppLovin shares does Adam own? 9%

6. What percentage of AppLovin voting power does Adam control? 61%

7. How many votes per share do Adam’s Cass B shares give him? 20

8. Did Adam graduate from college? YES! Economics degree from Berkeley

9. But what exactly does AppLovin do? The company helps developers market, monetize, analyze and publish their apps through its mobile advertising, marketing, and analytics platforms

10. On the company’s “Director Nominees’ Skills and Expertise” matrix in its 2025 proxy statement, which two categories are the least-represented?: Cyber Security (3 of 9) and Data Privacy (4 of 9)

11. What was the value Adam realized on the vesting of stock awards last year? $578M

12. Despite holding $19B in AppLovin stock, how much did Adam get in a work-from-home cash stipend last year? $1,800 

6. Which BlackRock director that Matt spent a lot of time ridiculing in May for being the board’s worst performer just lost his job? Hans Vestberg, Verizon

1. Which Verizon board member that is connected to 64% of the Verizon board–almost entirely through non profit and trade group connections–that Matt recommended a vote against at Verizon’s last annual meeting is Verizon’s new CEO? Lead Director and former PayPal CEO Dan Shulman

2. POP QUIZ! What kind of shoes does Dan wear? Cowboy boots

7. And finally, nepobaby David Ellison’s choice to take over CBS News, Bari Weiss, has made a career railing against what?

1. Corruption

2. Misinformation

3. Corporate malpractice

4. Censorship

5. Wokeness

POP QUIZ! How many years of experience does Bari have in broadcast television? Zero