📈 Data to start your week

US dealmaking ↓ EU defence ↑ TV ↑ China’s coal ↑

Hi

Here’s your essential Monday round-up of data driving conversation this week — all in less than 250 words.

Have a good week.

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1. ChatGPT overtook X as the sixth-most-visited website in January with a 2.3% share of all visits.

2. o3-mini scored 67.5% in the Harvard–MIT Math Tournament, outdoing DeepSeek-R1’s 40%—despite costing less.

3. The Atlantic alliance is being repriced. German defence company Rheinmetall stock is up 214% in two years (compared to a 184% increase in Nvidia’s share price).

4. VC investment in European defence technology made about 10% of Europe’s venture funding in 2024—and has grown fivefold over the past six years.