This photo taken on December 3, 2025 shows Zhu Yefeng, General Manager of Far East Precision Printing Company showing the screen monitoring production lines at a printing factory in Jiaxing, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. In a light-filled workshop in eastern China, a robotic arm moved a partially assembled autonomous vehicle as workers calibrated its cameras, typical of the incremental automation being adopted even across smaller factories in the world's manufacturing powerhouse. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'CHINA-ECONOMY-MANUFACTURING-TECHNOLOGY-AI, FOCUS' by Jing Xuan TENG

(From L) General Secretary of the Bavarian conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party Martin Huber, Bavaria's State Premier and leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) Markus Soeder (C) and German Minister for Research, Technology and Aerospace Dorothee Baer attend the congress of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party on December 12, 2025 in Munich, southern Germany. (Photo by Alexandra BEIER / AFP via Getty Images)

Bavaria's State Premier and leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) Markus Soeder (L) speaks next to German Minister for Research, Technology and Aerospace and CSU member Dorothee Baer after being reelected during a congress of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party on December 12, 2025 in Munich, southern Germany. Soeder has been confirmed in office with only 83.6 percent approval, his worst result to date at the CSU party conference in Munich. In the last election two years ago, Soeder won 96.6 percent of the delegate votes. (Photo by Alexandra BEIER / AFP via Getty Images)

(From L) Germany's Interior Minister and member of the Bavarian conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party Alexander Dobrindt, General Secretary of the Bavarian conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party Martin Huber, German Minister for Research, Technology and Aerospace Dorothee Baer and other CSU delegates applaud Bavaria's State Premier and leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) Markus Soeder (C) after he was reelected during a congress of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party on December 12, 2025 in Munich, southern Germany. Soeder has been confirmed in office with only 83.6 percent approval, his worst result to date at the CSU party conference in Munich. In the last election two years ago, Soeder won 96.6 percent of the delegate votes. (Photo by Alexandra BEIER / AFP via Getty Images)

Bavaria's State Premier and leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) Markus Soeder (C) speaks flanked by General Secretary of the Bavarian conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party Martin Huber (L) and German Minister for Research, Technology and Aerospace Dorothee Baer after being reelected during a congress of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party on December 12, 2025 in Munich, southern Germany. Soeder has been confirmed in office with only 83.6 percent approval, his worst result to date at the CSU party conference in Munich. In the last election two years ago, Soeder won 96.6 percent of the delegate votes. (Photo by Alexandra BEIER / AFP via Getty Images)

(From L) Former Bavarian state minister Edmund Stoiber, Germany's Interior Minister and member of the Bavarian conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party Alexander Dobrindt and German Minister for Research, Technology and Aerospace and CSU member Dorothee Baer attend a congress of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party on December 12, 2025 in Munich, southern Germany. (Photo by Alexandra BEIER / AFP via Getty Images)

Bavaria's State Premier and leader of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) Markus Soeder sits next to German Minister for Research, Technology and Aerospace and member of CSU party Dorothee Baer prior to a congress of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party on December 12, 2025 in Munich, southern Germany. (Photo by Alexandra BEIER / AFP via Getty Images)

Employees work on computers at the office of Illogic Studios in Montpellier, southtern France, on December 12, 2025. At a time when multinationals are being criticized for using artificial intelligence in their advertising, a Christmas ad created by a French animation studio for Intermarché is crossing borders on social media, racking up more than 20 million views as of December 10, according to the head of the French retailer. (Photo by Sylvain THOMAS / AFP via Getty Images)