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The IEA says 2025 was the first year of solar’s dominance, with the largest single-year generation rise ever recorded for any source — pushing the world into what it calls the Age of Electricity as clean power finally outpaces demand growth.
Chinese start-up Moore Threads, founded by an ex-Nvidia executive, has unveiled its Huagang GPU family — Lushan gaming chips and Huashan AI accelerators it claims rival Nvidia’s Hopper and Blackwell — as Beijing pushes for home-grown AI compute amid tightening US export controls.
A Chinese court has ruled that adopting AI is not a lawful excuse to fire staff, ordering a tech firm to reinstate a worker it tried to replace with a large language model — an early sign of judicial pushback against AI-driven layoffs.
Honor’s Lightning robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds in Beijing, beating the human world record by over six minutes — the latest milestone in China’s accelerating humanoid robotics push.
The Pentagon is quietly funding Twenty, a stealth startup building autonomous AI agents for offensive cyber operations, as the US-China cyber arms race accelerates.
From corporate stablecoins to programmable CBDCs and AI-driven money, this is a look at how currency could soon move faster than regulators and slip beyond purely human control.
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