The IDEAS Research Institute was launched to give Poland a competitive edge in artificial intelligence research and development; it is jointly supervised by the Ministry of Digital Affairs and the Ministry of Defence

The novel 'Blackbird Blackberry', by Georgian writer and a feminist activist Tamta Melashvili, was awarded best book of the year in Poland

A Polish couple, devoted to the Virgin Mary, is building a large statue of the Mother of God near the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows in Konotop; it will be a total of 55,6 metres high and will be the higher in Europe when it wiil be finished in half 2026

Poland's largest utility Polska Grupa Energetyczna has signed a €400 million agreement loan with the European Investment Bank for the design and construction of Baltica 2, the EU's largest offshore wind farm

The annual number of births in Poland once again reached an all-time low, according to the state agency Statistics Poland; 2024 marked the 12th consecutive year in which deaths exceeded births