Overview
- New AI hardware hit products and public markets, with Geely-backed Xinqing unveiling a 5 nm in-cabin chip rated at up to 200 TOPS at the Beijing Auto Show and photonic-computing firm Xizi Technology surging more than 380% on its Hong Kong debut.
- OpenAI chief Sam Altman set five guiding principles for AGI that stress broad access, user empowerment, shared prosperity, resilience against risks like biosecurity, and the ability to adapt strategy as impacts become clearer.
- China’s top economic planner blocked Meta’s purchase of AI agent maker Manus and ordered the deal unwound, underscoring tighter national reviews of cross‑border AI asset transfers.
- Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI moved into active court proceedings, centering a fight over the lab’s shift toward profit and control of advanced AI development.
- A Fortune summary highlighted an AI cost paradox, citing Nvidia’s Bryan Catanzaro saying compute now exceeds his team’s payroll and research finding AI is cost‑effective for only a fraction of vision jobs, even as industry spending soars.