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AI chips ↑ Stablecoins ↑ China's science ↑ Dairy methane ↓
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AI accelerator boom ↑ AMD CEO Lisa Su projects the AI accelerator market will surge beyond $500 billion by 2028, about four times today’s size.
OpenAI’s rapid ascent ↑ ChatGPT’s explosive growth has propelled OpenAI to $10 billion in annual recurring revenue in under three years.
Efficient chat ↑ The average ChatGPT query uses only 0.0003 kWh of energy, the same as a Google search in 2009.
UK AI investment ↑ Prime Minister Starmer has pledged £1 billion for AI infrastructure alongside £187 million for skills programmes—modest compared with the multi-billion-dollar AI spending by Gulf states.
AI-generated revenue ↑ Brazil’s largest ed-tech company, Qconcursos, earned $3 million in 48 hours after launching a premium app built with the AI low-code platform Lovable.
YC’s AI bet ↑ AI-agent startups now make up nearly half (47%) of Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch.
Stablecoin surge ↑ US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says dollar-linked stablecoins could reach a $2 trillion market, 28% of today’s US money-market funds.
China leads science ↑ The Nature Index 2025 ranks China (32 122 share points)1 well above the United States (22 083), widening the gap fourfold in just a year.
Methane munchers ↓ Windfall Bio’s methane-eating microbes eliminated more than 85% of methane emissions from a California dairy farm.
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Share points measure a country’s or institution’s fractional contribution to high-quality research. Each paper counts as 1 point, divided equally among its authors. The total share is the sum of these fractions, reflecting real participation—not just paper counts.