US Tech Is Shedding AI-Driven Jobs. China's Companies Are Hiring.
US tech employers cut 52,000 jobs in Q1 2026, with AI efficiency cited explicitly and increasingly. Meanwhile Chinese companies like Tencent and Huawei are holding or growing headcount. The divergence reflects digitisation lag and policy context more than a genuine difference in where the trajectory leads.
Read full story →NVIDIA Open-Sources the Full AI Stack, Not Just the Weights
Nemotron 3 Super is a 120B parameter open model with 7.5x the inference throughput of Qwen3.5-122B. But the significant release is not the weights: it is the training data, RL environments, and recipe published alongside them. NVIDIA's incentive structure explains why they give away what others guard.
Read full story →Demis Hassabis Would Have Kept AI in the Lab for Longer
The Nobel Prize-winning researcher who built AlphaFold says he would have left AI in the lab for longer and done more things like AlphaFold — maybe cured cancer. Instead he is running a commercial race he describes as "ferocious" and "locked in." His two fears: bad actors, and agentic AI going rogue within four years.
Read full story →The Retraining Argument Has Always Been a Way of Not Thinking
Every wave of automation comes with the same reassurance: workers will retrain, move up the value chain, find new roles. As a response to mass structural displacement by a competing intelligence, this is not a policy — it is a way of declining to think about the problem while appearing to take it seriously.
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