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Chinese Workers Embrace AI With Striking Confidence as Less Than 10% Fear Job Losses, UCL Survey Reveals

May 26, 2026

South China Morning Post

A new UCL survey reveals Chinese workers are embracing AI with remarkable confidence, with less than 10% fearing job losses, 96% using AI weekly at work, and a third believing the technology will actually create more high-skilled opportunities.

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AMD CEO Lisa Su Predicts Massive CPU Market Growth Fueled by Unprecedented AI Infrastructure Surge

May 26, 2026

Nikkei Asia

AMD CEO Lisa Su predicts massive CPU market growth over the next five years, driven by an unprecedented and unanticipated global surge in AI infrastructure demand that is rapidly reshaping the entire semiconductor landscape.

Hardware Data Centers Geopolitics

DeepSeek Slashes V4 Pro Prices 75%, Igniting AI Price War as Geopolitical and Legal Tensions Mount

May 25, 2026

TNW | Artificial-Intelligence

DeepSeek slashes V4 Pro prices by 75% to $0.87 per million output tokens, dramatically undercutting rivals like GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4.7, igniting an AI price war while geopolitical tensions and accusations of unauthorized training data theft from Anthropic continue to cloud the Chinese AI company's rapid market expansion.

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Manus Co-Founders Seek $1 Billion to Buy Back AI Startup From Meta After Beijing Orders Unwind

May 22, 2026

Bloomberg.com

Manus co-founders are racing to raise $1 billion to buy back their AI startup from Meta Platforms after Beijing ordered the $2 billion acquisition unwound, with plans to restructure the company as a Chinese joint venture and pursue a Hong Kong IPO.

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Chinese AI Models Surge to 60% Market Share as American Giants Face Valuation Crisis

May 21, 2026

CNBC

Chinese AI models are seizing over 60% market share on developer platforms, with costs up to nine times cheaper than American rivals like Anthropic, threatening the massive $800 billion-plus valuations OpenAI and Anthropic are counting on ahead of their upcoming IPOs.

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Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu M890 AI Chip With Triple Performance Gains, Releases Multi-Year Roadmap Amid U.S. Export Restrictions

May 21, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 AI chip with triple the performance of its predecessor, announces a multi-year chip roadmap, and launches a new AI model and server system, backed by a massive 380 billion yuan infrastructure investment as China races to reduce reliance on U.S. chips.

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Trump White House Prepares Executive Order on AI Safety and Cybersecurity Amid Growing Concerns Over Cyber-Capable AI Models

May 21, 2026

Axios

The Trump White House is preparing to release an executive order as soon as this week on AI safety and cybersecurity, requiring developers to share advanced AI models with the government 90 days before public release, amid growing alarm over cyber-capable AI models like Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber.

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MAGA Allies Including Steve Bannon Push Trump to Mandate AI Testing and Government Approval Before Public Release

May 19, 2026

Axios

Over 60 MAGA allies, including Steve Bannon, are pushing President Trump to require mandatory government testing and approval of powerful AI models before public release, directly clashing with the White House's current hands-off regulatory approach and warning that unchecked frontier AI could enable bioweapons, infrastructure attacks, and financial market manipulation.

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AI Outperforms ER Doctors, Fuels Mass Layoffs, and Becomes a National Security Asset in Rapid-Fire Week of Developments

May 19, 2026

The AI Report

AI is reshaping medicine, the workforce, and national security simultaneously: OpenAI's o1-preview outperforms ER doctors in triage accuracy, Cloudflare cuts 1,100 jobs citing a 600% surge in AI agent usage, and Anthropic refuses a Chinese think tank's request for access to its most restricted model, raising alarms at the White …

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OpenAI Partners With Malta To Give All Citizens Free ChatGPT Plus Access After AI Literacy Course

May 19, 2026

OpenAI

OpenAI and Malta are launching a groundbreaking world-first partnership called 'AI for All,' giving every Maltese citizen free ChatGPT Plus access for one year after completing an AI literacy course, with rollout beginning May 2026.

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