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

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1. 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.

2. OpenAI’s rapid ascent ↑ ChatGPT’s explosive growth has propelled OpenAI to $10 billion in annual recurring revenue in under three years.

3. Efficient chat ↑ The average ChatGPT query uses only 0.0003 kWh of energy, the same as a Google search in 2009.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. YC’s AI bet ↑ AI-agent startups now make up nearly half (47%) of Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Methane munchers ↓ Windfall Bio’s methane-eating microbes eliminated more than 85% of methane emissions from a California dairy farm.

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