China’s AI chipmakers are struggling to match the power of U.S.-made hardware. However, the West lacks the power of China’s electrical grid – a key factor in the AI race.
Category: 23 December 2025
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USED COOKING OIL PRODUCES GLUE STRONG ENOUGH TO TOW A CAR
For years, chemists have been tinkering with various forms of waste to turn them into useful products. The effort has transformed plant scraps into packaging and plastic trash scooped from the sea into clothing and sneakers.
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AI IS BOOSTING EUROPE’S ECONOMY, LAGARDE SAYS
Europe’s spending on AI has surged, which has partially offset weakness in other areas, notably manufacturing, Mathias Corman, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said in a statement last week.
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NEWFOUNDLAND’S HYDROGEN BONANZA CAN ALSO SEQUESTER CARBON
In 1987, African villagers digging a water well struck a pocket of gas about 330 feet down. The gas streamed out, showing blue in sunlight and gold at night. When a villager looked down the hole while smoking a cigarette, the plume exploded.
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PAPER-THIN CHIP PUTS 65,536 ELECTRODES INTO YOUR BRAIN
A group of bioengineers from Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University have created a paper-thin silicon wafer studded with 65,536 electrodes that can wirelessly transmit data to and from the brain 100 times faster than has been possible before.
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PRIVATE GERMAN COMPANIES RUSH TO POSITION THEMSELVES TO BENEFIT FROM BERLIN’S MASSIVE MILITARY BUILDUP
There’s a rush inside Germany among companies and workers who want a piece of the action as Berlin committed itself to increasing military spending by more than $500 billion over the next 10 years and see the funds as a way to shake off the country’s struggling industrial economy.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Mergers and acquisitions involving Swiss companies have reached their highest number since 2018 and Swiss businesses have taken part in deals worth $163 billion so far this year, the Financial Times reported.
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SPOTLIGHT: EV GO FU
s we have greatly detailed since the EV evolution began, U.S. carmakers wasted tens of billions of dollars by misjudging the domestic market for EVs.
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CHINA’S DOMESTIC ECONOMY SLUMPS IN NOVEMBER
Last month, the growth in China’s factory output slowed to its weakest pace since September 2024 and retail sales were their most sluggish in the three years since Beijing ended the country’s rolling anti-COVID lockdowns, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
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CHINA’S EXPORTS TO SOUTHEAST ASIA GROW BY 25 PERCENT
As Donald Trump’s trade war slashes China’s trade with the U.S., the world’s second-largest economy has added about 25 percent to its trade volume with the rest of Southeast Asia, the Financial Times reported.