# AI
Latest news and articles about AI
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China's 2026 Growth Playbook: Policy Push, Consumption Pivot and a Tech-Led Transition
China ended 2025 with 5% GDP growth and its economy topping RMB 140 trillion. For 2026 economists expect coordinated fiscal and targeted monetary easing to prioritise domestic demand, with consumption and services leading a structural shift toward technology-driven growth.
Baidu Bundles Documents and Cloud Storage into a ‘Personal Super Intelligence’ Unit to Fast‑Track AI Growth
Baidu merged its Wenku document repository and Wangpan cloud storage into a single Personal Super Intelligence Business Group led by Wang Ying, reporting directly to CEO Robin Li. The consolidation aims to leverage document and personal‑file datasets to accelerate consumer AI products, drive new monetisation and tightly integrate generative features into Baidu’s ecosystem while navigating privacy and regulatory risks.
IMF Chief: AI a 'Tsunami' for Jobs — Young and Entry-Level Workers Face the Brunt
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warned at Davos that AI will act like a ‘tsunami’ for labour markets, affecting an estimated 60% of jobs in advanced economies and 40% globally. She said young people face the greatest disruption because many entry-level roles are being eliminated, and stressed that governance has not kept pace with technological change.
China’s MBA Market Cools: Fewer Jobs, Falling Fees and a Curriculum Reckoning
China’s MBA market is undergoing a correction as economic slowdown, automation and policy changes shrink demand for traditional management degrees. Top programmes retain value through alumni networks and tailored curricula, but many schools have cut fees and retooled courses to stay competitive amid fewer clear job outcomes for graduates.
Feeding the Machine: How AI’s Rise Depends on Low‑paid Labor and Vast Natural Resources
James Muldoon’s reporting reframes generative AI as a large‑scale extraction system that depends on low‑paid labour, unconsented creative material and vast energy and water resources. The phenomenon deepens global labour competition, concentrates managerial control, and risks reproducing Western cultural biases unless regulated.
Intel’s CEO Concedes Yield Shortfalls as AI Demand Outpaces Supply
Intel CEO Chen Liwu admitted on the Q4 2025 earnings call that the company has not fully met skyrocketing AI-driven demand because product yields are below his expectations. Intel has pledged to make yield improvements a top priority in 2026, but the admission triggered a sharp market reaction and raises competitive and supply-chain risks.
Elon Musk to Join BlackRock’s Larry Fink at Davos — A High‑Stakes Conversation Between Tech’s Disruptor and Institutional Capital
Elon Musk will appear at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 22 January for a public conversation with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. The pairing brings together a leading tech entrepreneur and the head of the world’s largest asset manager, offering signals about how innovation, investment and policy might align on AI, electrification and corporate governance.
How China’s Armed Police Are Using Drones, AI and Cameras to Guard an Iconic Bridge
A People’s Armed Police unit in Nanjing has deployed an integrated system of fixed cameras, drones and an intelligent duty‑management platform to monitor and protect the historic Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. The initiative has reduced manpower needs, improved early warning and response, and exemplifies China’s broader push to fuse technology with domestic security operations.
China’s 6G Pitch: How Integrated Communication-and-Sensing Could Rewrite Industry Connectivity
Professor Wang Jiangzhou urged that 6G should be built around integrated communication and sensing, arguing 5G cannot meet the latency, reliability and situational awareness needs of industrial and safety‑critical applications. He stressed multi‑station cooperative sensing, shared hardware and unified waveforms as central technical directions, and positioned China’s policy moves alongside global efforts to capture leadership in 6G.
How AI’s Appetite for Memory Is Turning Chip Windfalls Into an ‘AI Tax’ on Consumers
SK Hynix and Samsung are reallocating memory capacity to serve AI data centres, driving a surge in HBM and SSD demand that has pushed memory prices sharply higher. The result is higher costs and stealth downgrades for consumer devices, with ordinary buyers effectively shouldering the bill for large‑scale AI infrastructure build‑outs.
Google’s Gemini Surge Fuels Cloud Demand — 85 Billion API Calls and 8 Million Enterprise Users Tighten GCP’s Competitive Grip
Gemini usage has surged, with API calls topping about 85 billion and enterprise subscriptions reaching around 8 million, driving higher demand for Google Cloud compute and services. This adoption strengthens Google’s ability to monetize AI through cloud infrastructure sales while raising margin, competition and regulatory questions.
Musk Doubles Down on Optimus: Tesla’s Bid to Become a Robot Company — Hype or Strategic Pivot?
Elon Musk says Tesla is “very likely” to evolve into a robotics company centred on the Optimus humanoid, asserting the business could dwarf Tesla’s current automotive operations. The claim follows weak global car sales and regulatory pressure on Tesla’s driving software, but turning a prototype humanoid into a mass‑market product faces steep technical, economic and regulatory hurdles.