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Die #Energiewende würde bei uns wenig bringen, solange #China nicht mitmache, sagen einige

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    "By comparison, at least, the way the Chinese government speaks about AI is more modest. Yes, China’s economic leadership views AI as a priority and has boldly claimed it seeks to lead the world by 2030. Yet the rhetoric lacks the eschatological tone common in Silicon Valley. Chinese economic planners appear more interested in AI as a tool for industrial processes than as a means of creating a superintelligence that will reach the singularity. The State Council’s 2025 “AI+” initiative is focused entirely on efficiency-enhancing applications rather than intelligence explosions.There is another important difference. China is banking far more heavily on simpler, lower-cost open-source AI models. In the US, most of the leading “frontier” AI models are secret and proprietary, in part as a business model and in part due to the apocryphal fears that the wrong actors could trigger human extinction. The smaller, lower-cost Chinese models may be seeking, in that sense, to be the more nimble 1970s Toyota rivals to the giant American cars produced by General Motors.More importantly, China is hedging its bets by investing heavily in a wide range of other technologies that might reasonably be described as “the future”. In 2024, the country invested an estimated $940bn in clean-energy capex, broadly defined as renewables, electricity grids and energy storage (batteries), dwarfing its AI investments. In these sectors, AI is meant to be a complement — the glue rather than the structure.While China’s overall economy remains weaker than it was in the 2010s, elements of this broader strategy seem to be bearing fruit."https://www.ft.com/content/12581344-6e37-45a0-a9d5-e3d6a9f8d9ba#USA #China #AI #AIHype #AIBubble
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    A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents - part of Beijing's trillion dollar spending spreeIn an astonishing intelligence coup, the CIA was caught off-guard when Fosun Group—a Chinese firm with deep ties to Beijing—quietly bought Wright USA, the insurer providing liability coverage to its agents.For years, a Chinese-owned company had legal access to the personal details of America’s top spies. The 2015 deal only came to light in 2016, sparking a CFIUS inquiry and forcing a sale back to U.S. owners. It was a wake-up call: China’s $2.1 trillion global spending spree isn’t just about business—it’s about strategic leverage. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g311jn1m9o #China #CIA #FBI #MAGA
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    China's shift to electric trucks may reshape global fuel demand> China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport.> In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran on diesel. By the first half of 2025, battery-powered trucks accounted for 22% of new heavy truck sales, up from 9.2% in the same period in 2024, according to Commercial Vehicle World, a Beijing-based trucking data provider. The British research firm BMI forecasts electric trucks will reach nearly 46% of new sales this year and 60% next year.> Heavy trucks carry the lifeblood of modern economies. They also contribute significantly to global emissions of carbon-dioxide: In 2019, road freight generated a third of all transport-related carbon emissions.> Trucking has been considered hard to decarbonize since electric trucks with heavy batteries can carry less cargo than those using energy-dense diesel. Proponents of liquefied natural gas have viewed it as a less polluting option while technology for electric heavy vehicles matures.> Liquefied natural gas, or LNG, is natural gas cooled to a liquid fuel for easy storage and transport. https://apnews.com/article/china-truck-lng-ev-diesel-transport-70f3d612de4b45b6f954a7f557f7f741 #China #EV #electricvehicles #LNG #fossilfuels #naturalgas #pollution
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    Sometimes, we get donations for our museum which are not old enough for being museum quality. So they are sold to finance the museum.When I saw this vintage jug in our museum shop, I knew I needed it for my meadow bouquets. It could be kitsch in the wrong place but with wild flowers ...#bloomscolling #bouquet #flowers #vase #china #porcelain #vintage #museum #culturalHeritage