Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
People walk past a banner displaying digital knowledge and artificial intelligence at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 16, 2024. (Kirill Kudryavtsev via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers receive training in trench digging, medical care, and drone operations in Kurakhove, Ukraine, on January 16, 2025. (Wolfgang Schwan via Getty Images)
An illustration photo shows the DeepSeek logo displayed on a smartphone in Shanghai, China, on March 27, 2025. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
An image of an electronic wafer is displayed at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Museum of Innovation in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on November 21, 2024. (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images)
Royal Australian Navy sailors perform maintenance on a remotely operated vehicle during the Australia, UK, and US (AUKUS) Pillar II Subsea and Seabed Warfare Event Two / Integrated Battle Problem 25.1 on December 6, 2024, in the Atlantic Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Commuters are passing by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's poster ahead of the Lok Sabha election in Mumbai, India, on April 17, 2024. (Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images)