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Sources: China is requiring chipmakers to use at least 50% domestically made equipment for adding new capacity, in a rule that is not publicly documented (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-30 China

Trump and Putin hold ‘positive' call on Ukraine – White House (www.rt.com)
2025-12-30 Trump Putin Ukraine

Sources, PitchBook data, and news reports: the founders of Perplexity, Figure AI, Safe Superintelligence, Harvey, and others joined the nine-figure club in 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-30 AI

10 Fascinating Facts You Might Not Know About Snow (listverse.com)
2025-12-30

Sources: Satya Nadella is focused on the increasing AI competition from Amazon and Google; Microsoft Deputy CTO Dee Templeton says Nadella is in “founder mode” (t.co)
2025-12-30 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Meta Just Bought Manus, an AI Startup Everyone Has Been Talking About (meta.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Startup AI

Netanyahu to break convention with state prize for Trump (www.rt.com)
2025-12-30 Trump Netanyahu

Ukraine undermined Trump with attack on Putin's residence – Kremlin (www.rt.com)
2025-12-30 Trump Russia Putin Ukraine

Russia liberated 32 settlements from Ukrainian forces in December – MOD to Putin (www.rt.com)
2025-12-30 Russia Putin Ukraine

Lavrov responds to failed Ukrainian attack on Putin's residence (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2025-12-30 Putin Ukraine

Missiles with unlimited range, nuclear sea drones and hypersonics: Key additions to Russia's arsenal in 2025 (www.rt.com)
2025-12-30 Russia Drone

Ruling party clinches majority in Ivory Coast parliament (www.rt.com)
2025-12-30

Kiev needs a public mandate to sign peace treaty – Lavrov (www.rt.com)
2025-12-30

Fast delivery apps like Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy are expanding into India's Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, driven by rising incomes and cheap smartphones and data (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-30 India

In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-30

Syria's incomplete security Transition has left gaps for Islamic State to Exploit (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-30 Syria Islam

2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C. (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-30 Climate

Inequality alone doesn't cause civil Unrest – but Internet Access adds the crucial Spark (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-30

PhDs Can't Find Work as Boston's Biotech Engine Sputters (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Biotech

Possible Zelensky challenger to return to Ukraine – media (www.rt.com)
2025-12-30 Ukraine

Sources: the US has granted an annual license to Samsung and SK Hynix to ship their chip manufacturing equipment to their facilities in China for 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-30 China Samsung Manufacturing

Sources: Meta is buying Manus for $2B+, after approaching the startup during a fundraising at a $2B valuation; Manus CEO Xiao Hong will report to Javier Olivan (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-30 Startup

Researchers Make 'Neuromorphic' Artificial Skin For Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Robot

Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and “will discontinue its services and operations in China” (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-30 China

Shares of Shenzhen-based OneRobotics opened flat in their HK debut after the Chinese home robotics maker raised $210M by selling 22M+ shares at about $9.50 each (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-30 China Robot Shenzhen

Shares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M+ in 2024 revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-30 Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% gain in South Korea's Kospi, the world's best-performing major stock index in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-30 Korea Samsung

Driven by the AI boom, chipmakers posted $400B+ in sales in 2025; FactSet projects revenue for Nvidia, Intel, Broadcom, AMD, and Qualcomm to reach $538B in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-30 Intel AI Nvidia AMD

Editors' picks for 2025: ‘Australia: a wealthy country in gentle decline, exposing itself to danger' (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-12-30 Australia

Response to Kiev's attack on Putin's residence will not be diplomatic – Moscow (www.rt.com)
2025-12-30 Putin

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