Abstract: This article reviews the 2025 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2025), outlining submission statistics, major plenary and invited talks, award-winning papers, and competition results. It emphasizes the strong showing of Chinese researchers, analyses the dominance of U.S. EDA vendors, and discusses technical and industrial challenges to applying artificial intelligence throughout the chip-design flow. Finally, it proposes collaboration, data-sharing and talent-development strategies to accelerate AI-powered EDA in China.