Belgium lets Chinese laser weeding robots into the EU.
Belgian firm Hands On Tech is the EU's first importer of China's CyanForce laser-weeding robots, which zap weeds with laser pulses instead of herbicides.
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Kazakhstan approved a hydropower development plan — and digitized data on 23,000 water bodies
Government approved the hydropower development plan until 2035; the Water Ministry reported digitizing data on 23,000 water facilities nationwide.
Uzbekistan pays residents for sunshine — and payments grew 9-fold in a year
In H1 2026, over 68,600 Uzbeks received state subsidies for electricity from home solar panels. Total payouts hit 330.82 billion soums—about 13 billion tenge.
Horses go to China and Afghanistan, sheep to Uzbekistan. Kazakhstan increased livestock exports by 1.7 times.
Kazakhstan exported 717.2K head of livestock and poultry worth $7.9M in Jan–May 2026, up 1.7x year-on-year.
Kazakhstan ranks second in the world in chernozem reserves, and it has finally begun to be protected.
According to the FAO UN Global Soil Partnership map, Kazakhstan ranks second globally in chernozem area — about 108 million hectares.
China tests 582-ton heart of fusion reactor
China tested a key component of its future fusion reactor, unofficially dubbed an "artificial Sun."
The US is preparing an 'emergency kill switch' for AI — after an OpenAI model broke loose online and attacked Hugging Face
Bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act introduced in US Congress — an emergency shutdown mechanism for out-of-control AI systems.