Global shipments of energy storage for AI data centres reached 10 GWh in just the first five months of 2026, already exceeding all of 2025.
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Enterprise adoption of open-weight AI models is accelerating sharply. Tokens processed via open-weight models on Vercel's AI Gateway jumped from 7% in December 2024 to 56% by August 2025 — an eightfold rise in eight months.
China's Z.ai (also known as Zhipu AI) delayed the public release of GLM-5.3 after discovering its vulnerability reproduction success rate reached 84.5% — fractionally above Anthropic's Claude at 83.8% on the same benchmark.
China now accounts for at least 28% of global manufacturing value-added and covers 100% of UN industrial classifications. Its 'new three' export categories — electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaics — reached nearly $193 billion in 2025, 3.5 times their 2020 level.