Chongqing’s Jiangbeizui, where neon rivers meet glass towers, is evolving into a real-world cyberpunk lab: fintech spine, AR-lit façades, and sensor-stacked supertalls. Startups can pilot identity wallets, branded overlays, and low-latency services amid rapid approvals, but rising rents, energy demands, and privacy risks make every experiment high-stakes for founders now.
Think AI will replace designers? Think again. This provocative piece argues generative tools shift value from production to judgment, curation and creative leadership—rewiring agency economics, unlocking massive profit potential, but risking creator income without provenance and licensing. Read how smart firms can capture value rather than become commoditized. Act now.
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief Asha Sharma vows “no soulless AI slop,” signaling a strategic pivot that will force vendors, studios, and cloud providers to prioritize provenance, controllability, and human-in-the-loop workflows. Read how one memo could reshape AI toolchains, procurement, and the future of creative games — and who profits right now.
Phygital flagships and biofabrication are fusing storefronts with factories, creating machine readable data loops that let AI teams redesign materials, cut inventory costs, and iterate products in weeks. Discover tangible pilots, ROI math, privacy and regulatory pitfalls, and a pragmatic roadmap for turning immersive retail into demand driven manufacture today.
Amazing PlantGBT lets you ‘talk’ to houseplants—translating moisture, sap flow, and microelectrics into chatty advice. More than a novelty, it signals a consumer AI play: cheap sensors, on-device small language models, and subscriptions that scale. Expect rapid prototyping, subscription economics, and debates over privacy, accuracy, and long-term value, industry shakeout.
Ralph Lauren’s Ask Ralph quietly transforms shopping: an AI stylist crafts head‑to‑toe looks, links live inventory to checkout, and teaches systems to sell identity and aspiration. Luxury meets scalable commerce, exposing integration, data and governance that will define conversational retail — vendor opportunities and risks that could reshape the industry.
At AI Summit 2026, the New Delhi Declaration—signed by 88 nations—shifts power from hyperscalers toward shared models, sovereign compute, and procurement-driven markets. Engineers, startups, and cloud architects face new rules, subsidies, and costly multiregion requirements. Discover how $250B pledges, political alignments, and procurement will reshape who wins the AI decade.
Free bubble tea and Lunar New Year giveaways became China’s newest AI lab: a deliberate distribution play that turns vouchers into live agent tests. Alibaba’s multibillion yuan push generated millions of transactions, converting curiosity into training data, locking ecosystems, and pressuring smaller rivals—raising privacy, competition, and regulatory alarms and scrutiny.
Mathematicians fed AI ten new research problems; models produced persuasive but flawed proofs. First Proof reveals a quiet race—convincing drafts, expert scrutiny, and costly verification pipelines. CTOs, researchers, and investors: learn how AI-generated mathematics threatens reputations, budgets, and the future of research—and what to do next before it’s too late.
Microsoft’s gaming chief Asha Sharma warns against “soulless AI slop,” signaling a quality-first shift that could reshape models, tooling, and studio economics. Her memo forces vendors to prove provenance, shows how curated AI raises costs—and value—and asks whether tech will make creative craft profitable or merely automated for the industry.
